5-2 Printing from DICOM Applications
For example, workstations, CT scanners, MR imagers, film
digitizers, shared archives, film imagers, and host computers made
by different vendors and located at the same or different sites can
“talk to one another” by means of DICOM across an “open-system”
network.
A device or application is said to be DICOM-compliant when the
manufacturer declares that its device will follow the rules defined
in the DICOM standard for its device type. The Horizon imager is
DICOM Print Service Class-compliant. It is anticipated that most
print jobs will be sent to the Horizon imager from DICOM Print
Service Class-compliant imaging devices or image viewing
workstations.
For more information about DICOM, visit the official web site—
medical.nema.org
. Additional information is available at the web site
of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc. (
www.rsna.org
).
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Vendors who claim that their device or application conforms to
DICOM must publish a
conformance statement
that describes how
it conforms. Most devices or applications will not support all of the
features of a particular DICOM service. Whether each feature of the
service is supported or not would be included in the conformance
statement.
The vendor or person responsible for implementing the Horizon
imager will study the conformance statements for the Horizon
imager and for any other DICOM devices or applications that will
be sending print jobs to it. By examining these conformance
statements, the implementor will determine exactly what DICOM
Print Service Class Provider options the Horizon imager supports.
The implementor will also be able to tell if the other devices will be
compatible with the imager.
The Horizon imager conformance statement is available on the
Codonics web site (
www.codonics.com
). It can also be mailed or
faxed to you on request.
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