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You may be a professional hardware or network engineer, an application maintenance person, or a talented technology lover illuminated by a new bright technical idea and looking for a handy tool for extending your hardware-software application. No matter the case, all you need is Serial Printer Logger as it may well satisfy all of your technical needs.
Serial Printer Logger can replace your old dot-matrix printers and collect data in real time to a binary log file, a PDF or a MS Word electronic document. This replacement will save your money (paper, consumables, maintenance). If you have several dot-matrix printers working simultaneously - the software provides real-time data collection from printers that connected via RS232, RS485 or Ethernet and can handle multiple ports at once and write the bytes to a HDD or any specified target!
The utility analyses ESC/P control codes and decodes graphics, fonts from a received data. Th erefore you can reprint files later or create a backup copy. Serial Printer Logger can work as a Windows service, which means that you may use it on servers or users may log on and off the PC, and the software will be there saving your information. Good functionality at an acceptable price!
Here are some key features of "Serial Printer Logger":
Capability to log multiple ports at same time:
· Our data logger has the capability to log multiple ports simultaneously so that multiple dot-matrix printers can be logged. Each port may have fully different settings;
Universal:
· Supports most ESC/P and ESC/P 2 control codes, except custom characters;
Extended logging features:
· Outputs received data without any changes to a log file at real-time. Supports date/time stamping. Supports custom baudrates;
Customized fonts:
· Different fonts types and sizes. Can use ESC/P or ESC/P2 control code for fonts selection;
Customized paper size:
· Supports various paper sizes: A4 210 x 297 mm, A5 148 x 210 mm, Letter 8 1/2 x 11 in etc.;
Various graphics:
· Captures and decodes bitmap or raster graphics. In a PDF file graphics will be compressed for a smaller file size;
PDF:
· Exports captured from a dot-matrix printer data to ready-to-use Adobe PDF at real-time;
Microsoft Word:
· Exports captured from a dot-matrix printer data to ready-to-use RTF file, including graphics;
Program message logging:
· Writing to a file all program messages, so you may diagnose errors and warning;
Plugins:
· Plugin modules that extending program features;
Simple, menu-driven step by step set-up:
· Programming is not requi red to configure the software to collect data;
Windows service mode:
· Unlike most other serial logging applications, Serial Printer Logger can run as a service so that it starts as soon as the operating system starts and doesn't require a user to log in and run it. It will continue to run even as users logon and logoff the workstation.
It is extremely easy to use:
· The configuration process is fully menu driven and has complete, context sensitive, on-line help. You can easily customize all input to your exact specifications. Once you see how easy it is to use Serial Printer Logger, you will never again take data readings by hand
Requirements:
· One or more RS232 ports or NIC (network interface card)
Limitations:
· 100 dat a packets
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Events handling plugin 3.7.7 build 530
· We've added support for TLS and STARTLS authentication algorithms for SMTP (email sending).
Via: Serial Printer Logger 2.9.4 Build 1019
