DICOM Printing

When printing to a DICOM printer, select the DICOM tab in the print panel. This enables all of the DICOM printing options.

The pull-down menu will list all available DICOM printers as defined by the configuration file. Select the printer you want to send the print job to. Every configured printer has default printer parameters as defined in the printer configuration file on the server. Click through each printer parameter tab to view or change the defaults.

Image

Overlay settings

Overlay information size can be changed by using the Overlay zoom slider bar.

Various tools that control image properties and information are available:

Tools	Description
	Invert grayscale
	Show overlays
	Orientation info
	Show orientation cube
	Display top left scale
	Show annotations
	Show image information

Image settings

Setting	Description
Enable upscaling	Enables access to the settings below
Minimum resolution	Defines the minimum resolution of the image sent to the printer. If the original image resolution is too small the overlay text displayed on the image may become unreadable when rendered on an image of this resolution. To prevent this, the user should upscale smaller images.
Image aspect	Defines the image aspect form 1:2 to 2:1 (width:height)

Film

Layout settings

Setting	Description	Parameters
Film orientation	Specifies the orientation of the film. Default is usually portrait.	Portrait, Landscape
Layout	Layout options configured for the selected printer	Rows, Columns
Trim	Specifies whether the film sheet is to contain trim. The default is usually no trim.	Trim, No Trim
Decimate/crop behavior	Specified what happens to the image when it does not fit within the defined boundaries of the image box.	Request crop, Request decimate, Request fail

Presentation LUT settings

Setting	Description
Illumination	Sets the value of the presentation LUT illumination field
Reflection	Sets the value of the presentation LUT reflection field

Session

Session settings

Setting	Description	Parameters
Copies	Defines the number of copied to be printed.	Type number or use slider to change
Destination	If the DICOM printer multiple destinations, indicate which one to request.	NA
Priority	Specify the print priority, if supported.	NA
Owner	Indicate the owner of the print job.	NA
Medium type	Specifies the type of medium to use in the print request. The application of this value depends on the capabilities of the printer.	Blue film, Clear film, Mammo blue film, Paper

Annotation settings

Setting	Description
Annotation text	Submit this value to the printer to use as annotation. The application of this string is depends on the printer.
Prepend date	Prepend the date to the annotation provided to the printer.
Prepend printer name	Prepend the printer name to the annotation provided to the printer.
Prepend illumination	Prepend the illumination information to the annotation provided to the printer.

Film session label

Adds the displayed string to every sheet as header. The default value can be changed in Legacy Settings under DICOM fields tab. In order to appear on film, the DICOM printer must support the Field Session Label feature.

Miscellaneous

General settings

Setting	Description
Film size ID	Specify the film size
Magnification	Specify the the default zoom factor applied. This is in addition to any zoom factor already applied to the image when it is loaded into the print panel.
Smoothing type	Specify the smoothing algorithm to use when interpolating the data.
Border density	Specify the density of the border. Usually a value of BLACK or WHITE is sufficient.
Resolution ID	Specify the resolution identifier.
Empty image density	Optical density to use in areas where no image exists.
Max density	Maximum density to use when printing.
Min density	Minimum density to use when printing.
Config info	Printer specific configuration parameter to send to the printer.

Image box settings

Setting	Description
Image box magnification	Overrides the default maginification for a specific image.
Image box smoothing	Overrides the default smoothing type for a specific image.
Image box config info	Overrides the default configuration option for a specific image.