Basic Spool & Printing Concept

Spool request is the SAP naming convention for output job or print job, but in SAP terms a spool request is made up of the spool request record (administrative information to manage the print jobs), the data that are sent to the printing devices, and the actual output request. A spool request is not necessarily meant just for printing, it also can be generated for other communication or archiving devices.

Output requests are the component of the spool request which actually formats the output data and sends it to the host spool system to be printed. You can submit multiple output requests for a single spool request. Eg you can have a spool request printed on different printers or reprint a request if it could not be printed successfully the first time.

Access methods are how the SAP spool work process communicates with the host spool system
SAP scripts is SAP own text editor which is used for creating and formatting documentation in SAP, such as online help, forms, implementation guide texts, mail message and so on.

List Output is a generic name for the output that is generated by ABAP reports and that is not formatted using SAP Scripts. The spool system handles both types of output that generated by SAP Scripts text editor and the results of an ABAP report.

Forms define the page layout for texts, report list, and the like that are specially prepared for display or for printing.

Layout sets are maps of output pages that specify where the text is placed on the page what its attributes are.

Temse stands for the temporary sequential object database, which is a special place where the SAP system stores the spool request data and other SAP objects such as the background job logs.