PerkinElmer Panthera-Puncher 9, Руководство пользователя

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Main features
The following section describes the main features of the Panthera-Puncher 9.
Touch screen
The Panthera Manager user interface software is designed to be used with a touch screen instead of a mouse and
keyboard.
General page layout
The upper part of the user interface screen can be assimilated to a task bar. This area is always visible and contains,
from left to right:
• The navigation buttons to the
Plates , Punch , and Maintenance views
• The date and time and the name of the currently displayed view
• Three small icons and their related information, respectively
• the communication settings (stand-alone or SG connectivity)
• the humidity of the punching area
• the user name of the user currently logged in
• The navigation button to the Settings view.
The rest of the screen is dedicated to displaying the content of the selected view.
On-screen keyboard
When pressing an editable field on the screen or whenever manual text input is needed (e.g. for writing a note to be
assigned to a sample), the on-screen keyboard is displayed.
Intellipunch
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Intellipunch
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is a function that allows the software to maximize the number of disks that can be punched from each
blood spot. Intellipunch detects the blood areas on the sample card based on the card surface color and automatically
optimizes the punch locations for the current blood spot. This provides the most economical usage of blood spots that
are not symmetrical.
The program also offers the possibility to use static punch patterns. There are numerous predefined punch patterns
that can be used with or without automatic blood detection. When choosing a punch pattern, the maximum punch size
that can be used in the pattern is shown next to it. The software will only show you punch patterns available for the
punch heads currently installed on the instrument.
Punch sizes
The instrument can contain two different punch head sizes simultaneously. The possible punch head sizes are 1.5 mm,
3.2 mm, 3.8 mm, 4.7 mm and 6 mm. If the instrument does not contain a suitably sized punch head for a loaded
analyte, it displays a warning message and disables the plate.
1.5 mm disks can sometimes cause issues, especially in a very dry environment. Please refer to
Troubleshooting on
page 32 for more details on this.
Error situations
If the instrument encounters an error situation, it will inform you through the user interface by means of an error
message, which will also instruct you on how to proceed.
Panthera-Puncher
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