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NAV6 Series NAVTEX System User Guide
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Printer or Serial Data Output*
If Printer or PC is connected to the Serial Output the NAV6plus can be set to send individual
or new messages as they arrive (see Auto and Manual Print on the NAVTEX Settings Page) to
the Serial Output. It can also be configured to output the Navigation Log to the printer.
Note: the Stations and Messages Types sent to the Serial Output in Auto Print Mode are
controlled by the Filters in profile 5. Profile 5 does not need to be the one currently selected for
Viewing.
When configured for printing the NAV6plus functions like a GMDSS paper NAVTEX printer
when connected to a suitable serial printer. A suitable serial printer can be purchased from ICS
(ICS part number ICS.918.01).
The NAVTEX auto print facility acts like a GMDSS paper NAVTEX printer:
Poor quality messages (error rates over 33%) are not printed.
All new messages are printed when first received.
Only messages not excluded by the print filtering (Profile 5) are printed.
Message repeats are printed each time they are received until they have been received with
good quality (error rate of less than 4%).
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.
The Navigation Log manual print facility is only available when the Log View is scrolled fully
left (the Time column is shown). When the Print button Softkey 2 is pressed the current page
of the Log will be sent to the Serial Output, including all columns, not just those currently
shown on the view.
Setting up a printer
Follow these steps to setup NAVTEX printing.
Connect the serial printer as described in the Installation section of this guide.
Test the printer installation by enabling manual print in the NAVTEX Settings Page then select
a message in the NAVTEX View and press the Print Softkey.
Enable Auto Print in the NAVTEX Settings Page so that new messages are sent to the printer as
soon as they are received. Messages sent to the printer are controlled by the selections under
Profile 5 in the NAVTEX Settings.
Enable Navigate Auto Print and set the logging interval on the Navigate Options Page to
automatically print periodic log data.