Configuring Printer Settings

You must designate a printer to use with the Alarm Printer. Also, you must select if alarms are printed as they occur. Use a dedicated printer for printing alarms. The printer can be connected locally or to a network. Any Windows printer can be used as the output for the Alarm Printer.

To configure the printer settings

1. Open the Alarm Printer utility. Do the following:

   1. In the WindowMaker Tools view, expand Applications.

   2. Double-click Alarm Printer.

2. On the menu bar, click Configure. The Configuration Settings dialog box appears.

3. Click the Printing tab.

   

4. In the Print To area, select the connection to the alarm printer.

   • Click None to not use a printer.

   • Click LPT1-3 to use a printer connected by a parallel port to the computer running the InTouch application.

   • Click COM1-4 to use a printer connected by a serial port to the computer running the InTouch application. Click Port Configuration to show the COM Properties dialog box and change the default values assigned to the selected COM port.

   • Click Printer to use a printer connected through the network to the computer running the InTouch application. In the box, type the name of the printer or click Browse to select an available printer.

     Note: If the printer you want does not appear, add the printer using the Windows Add Printer wizard.

5. Select the Remove Trailing Spaces in Printout check box to prevent the printer from printing blank lines or empty pages.

6. Select the Enable Printing check box to print alarms.

7. Select the Disable Realtime Alarm Printing check box to prevent the Alarm Printer from printing alarms as they occur.

8. Optionally, configure print command sequences to initialize the printer with specific settings and to change the print characteristics for alarms in a specified priority range. For more information, see Configuring Alarm Print Commands.

9. Click OK.