Sonics E-Press - Manual (Page 23)

Sonics E-Press Manual Page 23
Note
– Several printing options are provided by selections on the following control forms. Print driver
compatibilities have not been explored beyond noting the potential problem. (Note: Laser printers have not
been tested. Text only printouts have worked correctly in most cases).
The proper type of printer should be used depending on production record keeping or setup and checkout. A
more appropriate tractor feed printer should probably be used for production monitoring or quality records. In
either case, the installed printer may operate differently than the user intended! For instance, ink jet printers
will wait for the page buffer to be filled or the print job to be closed before the physical print is started. This
could cause some confusion in the printed logging output. The information is actually in the print buffer but
may not be printed until printer logging is turned off, the page is full or the program is terminated. All three
events cause the print buffer to print.
English or Metric
– The system may be programmed in either system of Engineering Units. When the E-
Press program begins, it will read the presently programmed entries and units from the machine. This data will
be displayed on the stepper programming form when the system is identified. See section 12.0 below for E-
Press form details.
Control Forms -
Two Control Forms are available for programming and monitoring the E-Press system –
the Stepper Setup Form and the Data Logger Form. Only the presently visible screen receives or sends data
to the communications ports so be sure to have the desired form displayed prior to executing a weld cycle.
Forms cannot be switched once a weld cycle has been completed or any data is being transmitted. When
data transmission is complete, form switching is allowed again.
The Stepper setup screen is the startup default screen and will normally be the first user screen displayed
after initiating the stepper utility program.
The following two sections present each of the major forms separately. A graphic of each form precedes a
discussion of each item on the form and its associated relevance to stepper welding. The order is generally
from the top left side of the form proceeding left to right and top to bottom. The menu items are addressed last
in each section.