Rockwell Automation 2711 PANELBUILDER SOFTWARE USER MANUAL - Manual (Page 328)

The Objects
Chapter 10
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The PLC controller can write different values into each address, causing
different subsets of the messages to be displayed.
The Screen Print Button prints the screen displayed on the PanelView
terminal. When this button is pressed, the screen is copied to the
PanelView terminal’s print buffer and sent to the printer.
Screen print requests are ignored when the printer is already busy with a
screen print. The Screen Print Active item in the Options menu allows the
PanelView terminal to inform the PLC controller that a screen print is in
progress. See Chapter 9, PLC Controlled Options, for more information.
Screen prints may also be triggered by the PLC controller. See Chapter 9,
PLC Controlled Options for details.
If the PLC controller is controlling the screen print and the screen change,
you can have the PLC controller print any screen as soon as it is displayed.
This is done by requesting the new screen as well as a screen print in the
same PLC scan.
Some graphic characters will not be printed. Instead:
ISA symbols, bar graphs, outer borders, arcs, diagonals and line
connectors will be replaced by ASCII character 219 decimal illustrated
in Figure 10.16
the first 32 characters, used for printer control, will be replaced by
ASCII character 254 decimal illustrated in Figure 10.16
double width/height characters will be replaced by a single normal sized
character and the appropriate number of blanks
For example, the letter A, displayed with double height and width,
occupies an area 2 characters high and 2 characters wide. Once printed, the
A will occupy the top left position leaving the other three characters blank.
Figure 10.16
ASCII Characters 219 and 254 from the Alternate Character Set
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Character
219
Character
254
1q1111q
Screen Print Button