Can you please give me some specifics for tweaking the Drystar 3000 to enable printing from PACSOne? The Agfa techs here don;t seem to know what a NIP board is....
M
Agfa Drystar 3000
Re: Drystar 3000 printing
midician wrote:Can you please give me some specifics for tweaking the Drystar 3000 to enable printing from PACSOne? The Agfa techs here don;t seem to know what a NIP board is....
M
Unfortunatelly if your Agfa techs don't know how to do this, you'll be out of luck. From what I know the DS3k doesn't have the service-webinterface yet that the 5500 has. I have no experience with the latest software version though. So you need the service software to log into the DS3k system. That's where the adjustments are made and that is also how you can view logfiles and dump images that were sent to the printer back to a notebook for error analysis.
I'll have to check if there is some sort of guide for applying the proper settings which you could forward to your local tech. But this will probably take a few days.
- Stephan
Not sure if this will help, but when a DS3k is configured you have to add profiles for each modality that can print on the printer. If you don't do this, you will have to configure a default profile in which case you may have trouble with the LUT.
So, when adding a new profile and you leave the default setting at 8 bit, the configuration tool will pop up a window and give you a warning that some modalities will not be able to print with the profile. This field is called NVE-Value and is usually set to something like NIPXXL=6300. For 16 bit, this value has to be doubled.
The configuration can be changed by a local Agfa tech, as well as from a tech via remote login if the printer is configured for it (usually via ISDN router).
I should get the exact values and a manual describtion for this next week and will report back once I have the info.
So, when adding a new profile and you leave the default setting at 8 bit, the configuration tool will pop up a window and give you a warning that some modalities will not be able to print with the profile. This field is called NVE-Value and is usually set to something like NIPXXL=6300. For 16 bit, this value has to be doubled.
The configuration can be changed by a local Agfa tech, as well as from a tech via remote login if the printer is configured for it (usually via ISDN router).
I should get the exact values and a manual describtion for this next week and will report back once I have the info.
- Stephan
Sorry for the delay, but I had a pretty busy week so far and it doesn't look like tomorrow will be any better.
Anyway, this is what I can provide:
3.20 NIP Neuron Image Processor Parameters
The NIP-module is responsible for interpolation, i.e. the mathematical method for magnifying
or reduction of the image.
This is the interesting part that you may have to modify:
work_space 122880 = 256000 for 12bit images or images > 20 MB.
IMOS DCM gives a warning during coalter this parameter for 12 bit images.
ilut_vbpp_in 8 = 16 for 12 bit images at input (e.g. DICOM). Done
by IMOS DCM.
olut_vbpp_out 8 = 12 for 12 bit LR printing
Another thing you may want to check out is the following (not sure if this will help):
3.11 ICD Image Composition Manager on Disk Parmaters
The ICD parameters are used to configure the image composition map for Drystar 2000 and
Drystar 3000. The image composition map is located on hard disk partition E: of the printer.
cache_size 700 Cache for image processing. Setting it to 2048 prevents
from error jobs in the queue and half printed films when
big (e.g. 12 bit, 1024x124 pixel) Dicom im32MB memory are required!
This is the best I can do for now. If you still can't print from PacsOne to the Drystar, please post the latest error log from PacsOne as well as the error log from the Drystar. A simulation log from the Drystar emulator software would also be helpful. The simulation software should work perfectly with PacsOne and tell you what settings to change in the Drystar itself.
Anyway, this is what I can provide:
3.20 NIP Neuron Image Processor Parameters
The NIP-module is responsible for interpolation, i.e. the mathematical method for magnifying
or reduction of the image.
This is the interesting part that you may have to modify:
work_space 122880 = 256000 for 12bit images or images > 20 MB.
IMOS DCM gives a warning during coalter this parameter for 12 bit images.
ilut_vbpp_in 8 = 16 for 12 bit images at input (e.g. DICOM). Done
by IMOS DCM.
olut_vbpp_out 8 = 12 for 12 bit LR printing
Another thing you may want to check out is the following (not sure if this will help):
3.11 ICD Image Composition Manager on Disk Parmaters
The ICD parameters are used to configure the image composition map for Drystar 2000 and
Drystar 3000. The image composition map is located on hard disk partition E: of the printer.
cache_size 700 Cache for image processing. Setting it to 2048 prevents
from error jobs in the queue and half printed films when
big (e.g. 12 bit, 1024x124 pixel) Dicom im32MB memory are required!
This is the best I can do for now. If you still can't print from PacsOne to the Drystar, please post the latest error log from PacsOne as well as the error log from the Drystar. A simulation log from the Drystar emulator software would also be helpful. The simulation software should work perfectly with PacsOne and tell you what settings to change in the Drystar itself.
- Stephan
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