SECTION F

Advanced Print Operations

The advanced printing module provides the comprehensive tools for luxuriant printing. The
technicians can use DROC as a printing workstation during the normal working time when
there are not so many patients a day.

CONTENTS
SECTION F ADVANCED PRINT OPERATIONS ................................................................................ 1

OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................................ 2
ENTERING PRINT WINDOW........................................................................................................................ 3
IMAGE INDEX ........................................................................................................................................... 5
FILM SHEETS ............................................................................................................................................ 5
FILM LAYOUT SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................... 6
PRINTER SETTINGS ................................................................................................................................. 10

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Overview

DROC offers a flexible and versatile system for printing image on film or paper, includes
printing capabilities that go well beyond those of most other Windows applications. This
chapter covers how you can print series and studies in Print/Output window using a wide
range of layouts, how you can copy and paste images in the same film or between films, as
well as how to create your own layouts for printing.

Printing is done in the background and will no tie up your system, so you can continue
viewing and reporting while your print jobs are running.

DROC lets you combine various images on “virtual film sheets” which you can then print out.

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Entering Print window

There are two ways to enter Print/Output window:

1. Select study on Work window, click Print button in Next Step area.

2. On View/Output window, click Print tab.

Figure 1: Print/Output window

A standard film layout was defined during configuration of your system. This layout contains
all the settings required for filming.

All the necessary settings have therefore already been made for each new job. If you are
happy with these settings, you can start filming images without any further intervention.

If these presetting are not suitable, you can change the following settings:

 Select another camera or printer

 Change the layout of the sheets

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 Change the image

Some of these settings apply to all sheets of current job; others may apply to current sheet
only. For the next job, the system returns to the standard layout.

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Image Index

Image index on the left of Print/Output window, shows all image’s thumbnail views. You
could drag the image from the image index into the viewpoint of the current film sheet.

Film Sheets

After entering Print tab, the first film sheet of the current print job is displayed.

Figure 2: Film sheet

With the tab in the top of sheets, you can page through all the film sheets of the current print

job.

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Film Layout Settings

Append a new film sheet

If the last film sheet of your job is already full and you want to copy or move images to the
end of your film job, you must first append a new film sheet.

Click the Add Film button . A new (empty) film sheet is appended to the end of the job.

Delete a film sheet

Click the Delete Film button to delete current film sheet. It would delete all images

on current film sheet as well. But this operation will not delete the image thumbnail index.

Portrait / landscape of a sheet

You can switch current film sheet’s orientation between portrait and landscape.

Click the Portrait / Landscape button to switch current sheet’s orientation.

Figure 5: Portrait / landscape

To select a film size

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Figure 4: The film size list

If you do not like to expose or print the current job with the default film size, you could select
film size from list which can be triggered by the Define Film Size Button.

Layout of the film sheets

By setting the layout of the film sheet, you can define how many images per film sheet. For
example, if you like to see diagnostic details on the images, switch to a larger format with
fewer images per film sheet.

The default layout of the film sheet is 1 image per film sheet. If needs you can click the
related layout button to adjust the layout of the film sheet, e.g. Define Film Layout button

means 1-16 images per film sheet with portrait/ landscape mode, Define Child

Layout button means devide one cell to 1-16 parts, and Cancel Child Layout

button means cancel the enabled child layout . Define Special Layout button

means special image layout for print can be enabled according to the custom

needs.

Add the image

If you want to print an image, you have to add the image into the film by clicking the Add

Image button . The image will be displayed on the film.

You could also drag the image from the image index into the viewpoint of the current film
sheet to add the image into the film.

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Remove the image

If you don’t like to print an image anymore, click on the image and then click the Delete

Image button . The image will disappear from the film. The DEL key on the keyboard

is the same as The Delete Image button.

Move images
You can move images within a film sheet.

First define mouse action by clicking the Drag drop button . Then drag & drop within

the same sheet.

Film repack
Before you send the film sheets to a camera/printer, if there are some empty viewports on
the film, you should reorganize the film sheets to make better use of the film material.

Click the Film Repack button to repack all film sheets. The empty sheets are

removed if necessary.

Apply a same magnification

Sometimes left leg and right leg will be printed in the same sheet but exposed separately.
You may want all images in the sheet to be zoomed to the same factor.

Click the Same Zoom Ratio button . All images in the current sheet will be magnified

to same factor as the current focus.

Show / hide label

When the images are loaded in Print/Output window, you can see some labels, such as
patient fundamental information, showing on the film. Click the Show Label/Hide Label

button to show/hide the labels on the current film.

NOTE: The mark is always printed out on film. Only the annotation can be hidden.

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Printer Settings

To select a camera or printer

Figure 3: Camera/Printer list

If you do not like to expose or print your current job with the default camera/printer, you
could select another camera/printer for current job. Select a camera/printer from Print Node
list. This selection list contains all the cameras and printers connected to your system.

DICOM print

Click the DICOM Print button , the film(s) with image(s) will be transmitted to the

selected film printer node.

Windows print

Click the Windows Print button , the film(s) with image(s) will be transmitted to the

selected normal printer node.

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