Printing Navtex And Navigation Log - ICS Nav6 Plus User Manual

Nav6 Plus Navtex System User Guide

PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG

PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG
The Nav6plus can be configured to function like a GMDSS paper
Navtex printer when connected to a suitable serial printer. A Nav6
serial printer can be purchased from ICS (ICS order number 918.00).
Alternatively, an ICS Nav4 Navtex receiver can be modified to
become a Nav6 serial printer by purchasing a Nav4 to Nav6 printer
conversion kit (ICS order number 6100.00).
The Navtex auto print facility acts like a GMDSS paper Navtex
printer:
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Poor quality messages (error rates over 33%) are not printed.
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All new messages are printed when first received.
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Only messages not excluded by the print filtering are printed.
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Message repeats are printed each time they are received until
they have been received with good quality (error rate of less
than 4%).
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Once a good quality message has been received, repeats are
not printed during the next 72 hours. After 72 hours the
message is treated as a new message and printed again.
The Navigation Log auto-print facility prints navigation log entries as
they are added to the Navigate Mode, Log View. Each log printout
contains time, date, position, COG, SOG, heading, water speed,
wind direction and speed, depth and distance. Only fields containing
valid data are printed.
Setting up a printer Setting up a printer Setting up a printer Setting up a printer
Follow these steps to setup Navtex printing.
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Connect the serial printer as described in the "Installation Of
Display Unit" section.
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Test the printer installation by enabling manual print (see Setup
Mode⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ Navtex View⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ Options Page) and printing a Navtex
message by pressing the PRINT softkey on the Navtex
Mode⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ Print View.
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Enable Navtex auto print and set the output format to "Printer";
see Setup Mode⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ Navtex View⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ Options Page.
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Enable Navtex manual print if you want to be able to the current
print Navtex message by pressing the PRINT softkey on the
Navtex Mode⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ Print View.
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