Printing - Siemens 6AV3991-1AJ02-0AB0 Equipment Manual

Printing

Connecting a
A monochrome printer or color printer can be connected to the Touch Panels.
printer
Configuration of the connection is described in section 12.2.4. Descriptions of
the interfaces is provided in Appendix B.
Print functions The following print functions are provided on the Touch Panel:
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Print Messages (see section 6.4).
All the message events which occur (Arrived, Departed, Acknowledged)
are printed on the printer. Screen prints and screens can be printed during
message logging.
Print Buffer
The entire event message or alarm message buffer contents are printed on
the printer. Filter criteria can be defined for the printout (see Chapter 6.5.2).
Print Screen
If you wish to use this function on the Touch Panel, you have to assign the
function to a button when configuring. Touching the button
PRINT SCREEN
prints the displayed screen. Windows currently shown on the screen – for
example, the message window – are not printed together with the screen.
You can abort the Print Screen function by touching the button again. A
system message indicates that the Print Screen function has been aborted.
Print Screen List
To use this function on the touch screen, the
must be assigned to a button during configuration. This function can be
used to print up to twenty screens in succession at one page per screen. If
there are output fields on a screen for process values, the values current at
the time of printing are read out from the PLC.
ASCII is the default printing mode; in other words, graphic elements such
as graphics, trends and bar graphs are not printed. Print Screen is not pos-
sible while printing is in progress. If the Graphics mode for screen list
printing is configured for individual screens, these screen lists are printed
complete with all elements, i.e. including graphics, trends, bar graphics,
etc.
In order to print all the screens selected using the Print screen list function
in Graphics mode, it must be defined in the configuration using the global
function Automatic graphics printing.
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function
PRINT SCREEN LIST
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