Customizing Printing

Use Printer Setup to customize printer settings for your local

black and white (B & W) and color printers. When you freeze and print an image, set the Sequoia to return to the frozen image or to live imaging. Also, use Printer Setup to automatically store images sent to

either printer.

You can set up a primary printer, an alternate printer, and options for image store in each of the following imaging modes:

• CD images

• B & W images

• 2-D CD w/strip

• B-color images

For better workflow, use the Print hard key for the primary printer, then the CODE + ALTPRINT for the alternate printer. (You can set up the printers to print from either key.)

The color printer has an additional format setting that is applied to all color prints. It is a single (1) or quad (4 on 1) print format. Single prints one image on one film sheet while quad prints four images on one film sheet.

You can apply Auto Un-freeze After Print and Store Image On Print options to the primary and alternate print functions.

• Auto Un-freeze After Print automatically returns the frozen image to live imaging after completing the print function.

• Store Image On Print will automatically store the printed image for later review.

Figure 2-12 Printing Setup Screen

Color Print Format selection: 1 or 4 ON 1 Imaging Modes

Assigns PRINT to perform print functions to the Local B & W Printer Assigns CODE + ALT PRINT to perform alternate print functions to the Local B & W Printer Assigns PRINT to perform print functions to the Local Color Printer Assigns CODE + ALT PRINT to perform alternate print functions to the Local Color Printer

Assigns options for sending calculation data to a device connected to the ultrasound system’s parallel port

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1 Press SETUP, and then select Printing/PC from the Setup menu.

2 Click on the corresponding check boxes to customize the print settings for CD Images:

• Select a Primary Printer. The primary printer should be the one used most often for the corresponding imaging mode.

• Select an Alternate Printer. The alternate printer should be the one used least often for the corresponding imaging mode.

• Select Image Store to switch this function on. Use Image Store

when you want to store only the images from selected imaging modes, but not all imaging modes. Store Image On Print will override

Image Store and print images from every imaging mode.

3 Repeat step 2 for each of the remaining imaging modes (B & W images, 2-D CD w/strip, and B-color images).

4 Select the Color Printer Format from the pop-up menu (1 or 4 ON 1).

5 Select Auto Un-freeze After Print to unfreeze the image and return to imaging after pressing PRINT.

6 Select Auto Un-freeze After Alt-print to unfreeze the image and return to Imaging after pressing CODE + ALT PRINT.

7 Select Store Image On Print to store the image after pressing PRINT. Use Store Image On Print when you want to store images from all imaging modes. Image Store only stores selected imaging modes, not all imaging modes.

8 Select Store Image On Alt-printto store the image after pressing

CODE + ALT PRINT. Use Store Image On Alt-Print when you want to store images from all imaging modes. Image Store only stores selected imaging modes, not all imaging modes.

Customizing Printing

Assigning a

Destination Device to Calculation Data (Reports, Worksheets, and Growth Curves)

You can send calculation report data in a specified format to a printer or export the data to an external database or worksheet on a personal computer.

NOTE: The printer or the personal computer installed with a third-party report software application must be connected to the parallel port on the ultrasound system

Figure 2-13 Example of calculation data section on the Printing setup screen

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Figure 2-14 Example of calculation data formatted with the “OB Text Report” option

Output options pop-up menu Options for printer

page size Printer driver (format)

pop-up menu Printer option

button PC option button

Figure 2-15 Example of calculation data formatted with the “PostScript Printer” option

Acuson Standard Calculation Program

Vascular Worksheet

Patient Name: Patient ID:

17−Apr−03

Resistance Indices

Hepatic Art. SMA Main RA Arcuate Art. Max (m/s) Min (m/s) TAMx (m/s) Angle (o) PI RI Velocities V1 (m/s) V2 (m/s) psv edv psv edv Hepatic Art. SMA Celiac Aorta Main RA Arcuate Art. Acceleration

RA Aorta Site 3 Site 4

V (m/s) T (m/s) Accl (m/s2) Angle(o)

Ratio

RA/Ao Site 2 Site 3 Site 4

RA Ao RA/Ao

Customizing Printing

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2 Select the Printer option button.

3 Click on the Printer pop-up menu and then select a printer (and format) for data.

NOTE: If you select Generic PostScript Printer, HP Laserjet 1200se, Lexmark E322, or Minolta QMS 1250E, you must select the

paper size.

4 To select a paper size, click the Page Size pop-up menu and then select A4 or Letter.

5 Press [EXIT] to exit the setup function.

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1 Press SETUP and then select Printing/PC from the Setup menu.

2 Select the Output for PC option button.

3 Click on the Output options pop-up menu and then select a format for data.

• OB Text Report sends OB reports in ASCII format to a personal computer installed with a third-party software application.

• Comma Separated Output sends reports in a comma-delimited format to a printer, or to a personal computer installed with a third-party report software application.

NOTE: If you select OB Text Report, you cannot export Cardiac, Gynecology, or Vascular text reports. In order to export Cardiac,

Gynecology, OB, and Vascular report data, select Comma Separated Output.

4 Press [EXIT] to exit the setup function.

OPTION FORMAT ASSIGNED TO CALCULATION DATA OB Text Report _{OB Text-defined}

Generic PostScript _{PostScript™}

HP Laserjet 1200se _{ASCII or PostScript™} Lexmark E322 _{ASCII or PostScript™} Minolta QMS 1250e _{ASCII or PostScript™}

Customizing Screen