Printing

ClearSCADA provides you with the facility to print a variety of data output. You can configure printing to be done manually or to occur automatically. The following is a list of features with which you can use the print facility:

• Alarms and Events—The alarm and event printer service allows alarms and events to be printed out automatically on a printer that is connected to a server or client PC, (see Alarm and Event Printer Service in the ClearSCADA Guide to Server Administration).
• Data Grids and Data Tables—You can print the properties and the displayed data from Data Grids and Tables.
• Data Sets and Data Set Rows—You can print the properties and the displayed data from Data Sets and Data Set Rows.
• Logic Functions—You can print Function Block Diagrams.
• Mimics—You can print a displayed Mimic.

  WYSIWYG Printing setting allows you to control whether print-outs of Mimics include embedded Lists and embedded Alarms Lists, see Enable or Disable WYSIWYG Printing for Mimics in the ClearSCADA Guide to Mimics.

• Queries Lists—You can print the results of Queries Lists.
• Scripts—You can print scripts and use scripts to control printing functions within Mimics and the Alarm banner, see Using a Script to Access the Print Settings in the ClearSCADA Guide to Scripting.
• Trends and Historic Trends—You can print Trend and Historical Trend displays, see Print a Trend in the ClearSCADA Guide to Trends.
• X-Y and X-Y-Z Plots— You can print X-Y and X-Y-Z plots.

  In addition there may be driver specific printing facilities. These are documented in the relevant driver guides.

There are two printing options available for various features within ClearSCADA:

• Print—Use this option to select an available printer to users and print the selected data, see Accessing Print Options.
• Print Preview—Certain features allow you to preview the printed output on the display before printing, see Using Print Preview.