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About Serial Printer Logger

Serial Printer Logger captures data flow from a serial printers and interprets to electronic documents like Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF. Serial Printer Logger provides real-time data collection from dot-matrix printers that connected via RS232, RS485 or Ethernet.

 

Serial Printer Logger captures serial or network data and writes to a binary log file with RAW data or decode ESC/P control codes and transfers the data to electronic documents.

 

Key features of Serial Printer Logger are:

 

capability to log multiple ports at the same time. Each port may have fully different settings;

supports most ESC/P and ESC/P 2 control codes, except custom characters;

captures and decodes bitmap or raster graphics;

supports different fonts types and sizes;

supports various paper sizes;

supports date/time stamping;

outputs received data without any changes to a log file;

data export to ready-to-use Microsoft Word (RTF) or Adobe PDF files;

program messages logging;

simple, menu-driven step by step set-up - programming is not required to configure the software to collect data;

many plug-in modules that extending program features;

It supports various operating systems. The logger runs on all versions starting from Windows 2000, including 32 and 64-bit systems.

 

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 a user logon and logoff the workstation.

 

It is extremely easy to use! The configuration process is fully menu-driven and has complete, context-sensitive, online 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!

 

Typical usage

 

A typical application for Serial Printer Logger is to replace one or more dot-matrix printers with one computer that will capture and store documents electronically.

 

Applications examples

 

Data logging systems;

Remote control systems;

Alarm systems.

 

 

Company home page: http://www.aggsoft.com/

Software home page: http://www.aggsoft.com/serial-printer-logger.htm