DS2 Docking Station
Printing
Version 9.1 (P/N: 17112798)
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Step Instruction
20.
When using DSSAC and a selected Docking Station is chosen from the Docking
Station lists, the General Information tab for the docking station will look like the
following. A drop down list of printers is available. (Printers will appear in this list
if the service was set up properly).
Figure 12-2. The General Information Tab for the Docking Station
21.
When a printer is selected from the IDS Printer list, Calibration and Bump Test
Certificates will automatically print to the chosen printer each time one of these
events occurs. A sample of each of the reports is shown below.
NOTE:
If DSS’s tracelog service is enabled, then the DS2 AutoPrint service will write debug
messages to the file called “ds2_printing_log.txt” in the
same directory
that the server’s tracelog
file is configured to write to. For example, if tracelog is configured to be
D:\logs\ds2_server_log.txt
, then the AutoPrint service will log its messages to
D:\logs\ds2_printing_log.txt
.
The AutoPrint service reads configuration settings on startup to determine if and where it should
write its log file. It will reread the configuration file once every minute to see if trace log
settings have changed and, if so, then the AutoPrint service will change on the fly to use the new
log settings.
The AutoPrint service uses the maximum size specified tracelog file to also control the
maximum size of the printing log. That is, if tracelog is configured to restart at 1MB, then the
AutoPrint service will
also
restart the printing log once it exceeds 1MB. Each time the
AutoPrint server logs a message, it checks the size of the log file. If the file is less than tracelog
max size, it appends the message. If the file is greater than this max size, it clears the file and
then writes the message.
