Checking Printer Settings 23 Printing Patient Reports
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Checking Printer Settings
The printer settings for your monitor are defined in Configuration Mode. The printer settings Paper
Size, Resolution, Color Support, and Duplex Option for the active printer are visible
but inactive (“grayed-out”) in the Setup Printers menu. When Print Database is selected
as active printer only the Paper Size setting will be shown.
♦ To enter the Setup Printers menu, in the Reports menu, select Setup Printers.
Printing a Test Report
A test report can be printed in Configuration mode, refer to the Service Guide for details.
Switching Printers On Or Off for Reports
You can enable or disable printer status to switch individual printers on or off for report printouts.
1 In the Setup Printers menu, select Printer and then select the name of the device you
want to switch on or off for Reports printing from the pop-up list.
2 Select Printer Status to toggle between the settings Enabled and Disabled. If you set
this to Disabled, no reports will be printed to the named printer.
If the monitor detects that no printer of a particular type is available, the Enabled/Disabled
setting will automatically be set to Disabled and “grayed out”.
Dashed Lines on Reports
If a section of a wave on a report is drawn with dashed lines, this tells
you that a setting that affects the appearance of the wave on the
screen was changed while the report was printing.
For example, if you change the wave scale while a report is printing,
the wave scale and wave size are changed immediately on the
monitor screen and on the report. To indicate that the scale
information printed at the beginning of the report no longer matches the currently used scale, the wave
will be printed using dashed lines, starting from the moment the change took place.
Some examples of settings that cause dashed lines in reports if changed during printing are: Filter
mode, ECG lead placement, wave scale, measurement unit, paced/non-paced setting, and
measurement mode. Note that as ECG waves are drawn with a fixed gain on reports (either 10 mm/
mV or 20 mm/mV), changing the ECG wave scale will not cause dashed-line reports.
To avoid dashed lines on reports, wait 15 seconds after changing a setting before you trigger a report.
Unavailable Printer: Re-routing Reports
If you send a report to be printed on a printer that is not available, for example, because it has run out
of paper, this print job is suspended and stored in the monitor’s memory.
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