What is Named Printers mean in Dynamics GP ?

(Tools-->Setup -->System-->Named Printers)

Named Printers can use to print the Dynamics GP report to the specific –Dedicated printer, Assume that you have Dedicated “Check Printer” you used to print only checks and before printing checks from Dynamics GP user need to change the Printer Setting from Defualt to Check Printer.

With the help of Named Printers Dynamics GP Report can assigned to specific Dedicated Printer, so whenever user print the Report / Check it will print on Assigned Printer. It does not require to make any change to the printer setting to print in dedicated printer .


You can assign Named Printers to the Following Reports .

Payables Management

Aged Trial Balance Reports
Analysis Reports
Computer checks and remittance
Historical aged trial balance Reports
Posting Journals
Payables documents
Transaction checks and remittance

POP

Analysis Reports
Posting Journals
Purchase Orders

Payroll

1099-R and 1096 Forms
Custom Reports
Direct Deposit Statement of Earnings
Paychecks and Direct Deposit forms
W-2 and W-3 forms
Wages and hours Reports

Inventory

Analysis Reports
Activity Reports
Stock Count Form
Posting Journals

Invoicing

Analysis Reports
Invoices and Returns
Posting Journals

Receivables Management

Analysis Reports
Aged Trial Balance Reports
Historical Aged Trial Balance Reports
Customer Statement
Posting Journals
Receivables documents

SOP
Analysis Reports
Packing slips and picking tickets
Posting Journals
Purchase Orders Generation Register
Quotes, Orders, Invoices, Back Orders, and Returns

General Ledger

Financial Statement
Trial Balances
Posting Journals
Cross Reference Reports


The Original Developer of Named Printers is Mr. David Musgrave , Who has great post in his blog about how to configure Named Printer in Terminal Server

Namedd Printer in Terminal Server : http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2008/08/15/using-named-printers-with-terminal-server.aspx
Hybrid - Adding Namedd Printers control to Reports using VBA
http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2009/01/14/adding-named-printers-control-to-reports-using-vba.aspx