Category: Virtual Printer Hardware

Streamline Your Lab Data Management with RedTitan’s Virtual Printer

Are you utilizing a HACH TL2360, TL3250 or a similar laboratory water turbidimeter? If so, you might still be printing results and manually entering data, a time-consuming and error-prone process. Fortunately, there’s a way to enhance your workflow efficiency and accuracy—by incorporating RedTitan’s Virtual Printer into your lab operations.

The Challenge of Manual Data Entry

For many labs, the process of printing test results and then entering them manually into a digital system is standard practice. This method, while traditional, comes with several downsides:

  • Time-Consuming: Manually entering data takes significant time, which could be better spent on more critical tasks.
  • Error-Prone: Human error is inevitable, and even small mistakes in data entry can lead to significant issues in data analysis and reporting.
  • Inefficient Data Management: Printed results need physical storage, and retrieving old data can be cumbersome.

Introducing RedTitan’s Virtual Printer

RedTitan’s Virtual Printer offers an innovative solution to these challenges by seamlessly capturing printed output on a Windows PC in PDF, Text, or CSV format. This advancement means you can maintain your existing workflow while significantly improving efficiency and accuracy.

How It Works

The best part about RedTitan’s Virtual Printer is its simplicity and compatibility. There’s no need to modify your current laboratory device. Here’s how you can get started:

  • Connect the Virtual Printer: Simply connect the RedTitan Virtual Printer to your laboratory equipment.
  • Print as Usual: Continue to print your test results just as you normally would.
  • Seamless Data Capture: The Virtual Printer captures the printed output and converts it into a digital format that is easy to store, search, and analyze.

Versatile Compatibility

RedTitan provides comprehensive solutions that cover various connection types and protocols:

  • Hardware Solutions: Capture output from Parallel, USB, and Serial ports.
  • Software Solutions: Utilize TCP/IP attached printers using IPP, LPR, or streamed printing protocols.

Benefits of Using RedTitan’s Virtual Printer

  • Enhanced Efficiency: Automate the data capture process, freeing up valuable time for more critical lab activities.
  • Improved Accuracy: Reduce the risk of human error associated with manual data entry.
  • Streamlined Data Management: Easily store and retrieve digital records, making data analysis and reporting more efficient.
  • Cost-Effective: Minimize the need for paper, ink, and physical storage space.
  • Compatibility: Works seamlessly with a wide range of laboratory devices without requiring modifications.

Conclusion

Integrating RedTitan’s Virtual Printer into your laboratory workflow can transform the way you manage data, making the process faster, more accurate, and more efficient. If you are still printing and manually entering test results, it’s time to embrace this innovative solution and take your lab operations to the next level. Ready to streamline your lab’s data management? Explore the benefits of RedTitan’s Virtual Printer today and see the difference it can make in your laboratory’s efficiency and accuracy.

For further details see RedTitan Virtual Printer or contact us via email.

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A Virtual Printer for Electronic medical records

RedTitan provides the “glue” that transforms electronic documents and helps migrate legacy printer data to electronic medical record formats so it was no surprise to get a call from Zeiss with a interesting challenge. Some of the equipment made for the ophthalmology industry could not produce an electronic document, all it could do was print!

Surely a software upgrade and perhaps a TCP/IP hardware interface
would be good enough?
No – you don’t understand – If we change anything it has to go back
through the very expensive TYPE APPROVAL procedure.

It turns out that the world is full of “black box” devices in medical and industrial applications that can only print. Sometimes the law or security prohibits any attachment to a network. (nobody wants a “virus” on an ophthalmic lance) – The concept of Virtual Printer hardware was born.

Virtual printer

The principle is easy enough. Build a small piece of hardware that just looks like the same old printer to the “black box”. A powerful microprocessor handles the printer interface – we used a MICROCHIP PIC 16 device. Data is collected on a USB connection to a PC controlled using an FTDI package. The device gets its power from the USB interface avoiding the need for a special power supply.

Of course data collection is only half the story. Processing the collected printer data is the work of RedTitan EscapeE. You can even recover data straight off the printed page for re-processing, filing or even patient identification.

Now, six years on, many thousand of these devices have been rolled out in data capture applications. The chances are that, the next time you take an eye test, you will find the RedTitan Printt2PC box doing its job in the back of a Zeiss Humphrey Field Analyser.

Today RedTitan offer various models of the Print2PC system – Parellel Port, USB Port, Serial Port and Network attached printers, taking care of everything from Pacemaker Programmers through to Blood Analysis controllers. There is even a bowling alley on an island in northern Germany that owes its scoring system to Print2PC.

USB Virtual Printer

Capture print hardware – The virtual printer.

RedTitan make software to convert and transform document formats but migration from printed paper to electronic formats is complicated by legacy hardware and security issues. Easy for networked devices but RedTitan handle the difficult cases by using hardware to emulate the printer! We have two main models

We also make a Serial port capture packaged solution based on Raspberry PI hardware. This device has all the advantages of LAN or WIFI connection in a small footprint. Call or email for details help@redtitan.com