Specifications

5 – Configuring Stations and Printers
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Printers
Printers that are intended for printing reports or alarms and events are defined
with Quick Builder. When you have defined your printers in Quick Builder, you
assign printers to specific tasks using the Station Configuration display. For more
information see “Printer Assignment” on page 81.
You can assign a printer or any printer as one of the following:
Considerations
• An alarm printer needs to be a line-by-line printer, because alarms and
events must be immediately available to the operator as hard copy. Laser
printers are not suitable because they buffer a full page of events before
printing.
• Alarm/event printers can be segregated to print alarms and events occurring
in defined areas of your site. (See “Using Areas to Control Access to the
System” on page 222 for details on areas.)
• Do not configure a printer as both a report printer and an alarm/event
printer. Doing this causes report and alarm/event data to be mixed in
together.
• When operators print displays, the screen dump is sent to the printer
defined as the default printer under Windows Print Manager.
• When you configure reports, you can specify which printer is to be used for
a given report.
• If you select a network printer for report printing, you must ensure that you
create the network printer locally with the correct login account. See the
PlantScape Installation Guide for details.
Property Description
Screen dump printer Print Station displays, such as Trend Sets and Point
Detail displays.
Report printer Print reports requested by operators, generated as a
result of a status change in the system, or generated on
a periodic basis.
Alarm/event printer Prints details of alarms that are configured to print on
any printers associated with Stations assigned to the
area that contains the point in alarm.
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