Thought this would be easy, but I have configured a virtual printer using the generic text driver in RAW mode and connected it to an IMAC Sentinel system (as advised by Honeywell/Matrikon/ICS).
IMAC Sentinel can be used to analyse alarms and events as long as each one appears on a single line.
However, each alarm or event is being spread over 3 or 4 lines. This seems strange as DeltaV Logger was designed to print to dot-matrix printers, so you would expect it to print all the info for one alarm on a single line.
I have messed around with paper sizes and margins to no avail.
We have only two options that I can think of to get this working or revert to an OPC A&E solution, which will be far more expensive.
1. Change the printer mode from RAW to LPR.
2. Try a different printer driver (e.g., for a serial printer or a dot-matrix printer).
It seems the DeltaV Logger is a throwback to last century and there is nobody in Emerson able to provide me with a solution to my problem.
Can anyone suggest an alternative solution?