NAME

       dcmprscu - Print spooler for presentation state viewer

SYNOPSIS

       dcmprscu [options] [dcmfile-in...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  dcmprscu  utility implements the DICOM Basic Grayscale Print Management Service Class
       as SCU. It also supports the optional  Basic  Annotation  Box  and  Presentation  LUT  SOP
       Classes. The utility is intended for use within the DICOMscope viewer.

       The dcmprscu utility takes complete print jobs consisting of a Stored Print object and one
       or more Hardcopy Grayscale objects and spools them to the printer. No attempt is  made  to
       check whether the attributes defined in the Stored Print object are supported by the Print
       SCP. However, the print spooler will  not  attempt  to  use  the  optional  Annotation  or
       Presentation LUT services if they are not successfully negotiated with the Print SCP.

       The dcmprscu utility reads the characteristics of the printer to communicate with from the
       configuration  file.  Depending  on  the  printer's  support  for  Presentation  LUT,  any
       Presentation LUT present in the print job will be rendered into the hardcopy images before
       they are spooled to the printer if necessary.  If  the  printer  does  not  support  image
       transmission  with  12  bits/pixel (as per the configuration file), the grayscale hardcopy
       images are down-sampled to 8 bits/pixel before transmission to the printer.

       The dcmprscu utility can be run either in 'printer mode', in which case the file name of a
       Stored  Print  object  must be passed, or in 'spool mode', in which case commands are read
       periodically from a spool directory.

PARAMETERS

       dcmfile-in  stored print file(s) to be spooled

OPTIONS

   general options
         -h   --help
                print this help text and exit

              --version
                print version information and exit

              --arguments
                print expanded command line arguments

         -q   --quiet
                quiet mode, print no warnings and errors

         -v   --verbose
                verbose mode, print processing details

         -d   --debug
                debug mode, print debug information

         -ll  --log-level  [l]evel: string constant
                (fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace)
                use level l for the logger

         -lc  --log-config  [f]ilename: string
                use config file f for the logger

   print options
              --noprint
                do not create print-out (no n-action-rq)

              --session-print
                send film session n-action-rq (instead of film box)

              --monochrome1
                transmit basic grayscale images in MONOCHROME1

   mode options
         +p   --print
                printer mode, print file(s) and terminate (default)

         +s   --spool  [n]ame: string
                spooler mode, use job prefix n

   processing options
         -c   --config  [f]ilename: string
                process using settings from configuration file

         -p   --printer  [n]ame: string (default: 1st printer in cfg file)
                select printer with identifier n from cfg file

         +d   --dump
                dump all DIMSE messages

   spooler options (only with --spool)
              --sleep  [d]elay: integer (default: 1)
                sleep d seconds between spooler checks

   basic film session options (not with --spool):
              --copies  [v]alue: integer (1..100, default: 1)
                set number of copies to v

              --medium-type  [v]alue: string
                set medium type to v

              --destination  [v]alue: string
                set film destination to v

              --label  [v]alue: string
                set film session label to v

              --priority  [v]alue: string
                set print priority to v

              --owner  [v]alue: string
                set film session owner ID to v

LOGGING

       The level of logging output of the various command line tools and underlying libraries can
       be specified by the user. By default, only errors and warnings are written to the standard
       error stream. Using option --verbose also informational messages like  processing  details
       are  reported.  Option  --debug  can be used to get more details on the internal activity,
       e.g. for debugging purposes. Other logging levels can  be  selected  using  option  --log-
       level.  In  --quiet mode only fatal errors are reported. In such very severe error events,
       the application will usually terminate. For more details on the different logging  levels,
       see documentation of module 'oflog'.

       In  case  the logging output should be written to file (optionally with logfile rotation),
       to syslog (Unix) or the  event  log  (Windows)  option  --log-config  can  be  used.  This
       configuration  file also allows for directing only certain messages to a particular output
       stream and for filtering certain messages based on the module or  application  where  they
       are generated. An example configuration file is provided in <etcdir>/logger.cfg).

COMMAND LINE

       All  command line tools use the following notation for parameters: square brackets enclose
       optional values (0-1), three trailing dots  indicate  that  multiple  values  are  allowed
       (1-n), a combination of both means 0 to n values.

       Command  line  options  are  distinguished  from  parameters by a leading '+' or '-' sign,
       respectively. Usually, order and position of command line options are arbitrary (i.e. they
       can  appear anywhere). However, if options are mutually exclusive the rightmost appearance
       is used. This behaviour conforms to the standard evaluation rules of common Unix shells.

       In addition, one or more command files can be specified using an '@' sign as a  prefix  to
       the  filename  (e.g.  @command.txt). Such a command argument is replaced by the content of
       the corresponding text file (multiple whitespaces are treated as a single separator unless
       they appear between two quotation marks) prior to any further evaluation. Please note that
       a command file cannot contain another command file. This  simple  but  effective  approach
       allows  to  summarize  common  combinations  of  options/parameters and avoids longish and
       confusing command lines (an example is provided in file <datadir>/dumppat.txt).

ENVIRONMENT

       The dcmprscu utility will attempt  to  load  DICOM  data  dictionaries  specified  in  the
       DCMDICTPATH environment variable. By default, i.e. if the DCMDICTPATH environment variable
       is not set, the file <datadir>/dicom.dic will be loaded unless  the  dictionary  is  built
       into the application (default for Windows).

       The  default  behaviour  should be preferred and the DCMDICTPATH environment variable only
       used when alternative data dictionaries are required. The DCMDICTPATH environment variable
       has  the  same  format  as  the  Unix  shell PATH variable in that a colon (':') separates
       entries. On Windows systems, a semicolon (';') is used as a separator. The data dictionary
       code  will attempt to load each file specified in the DCMDICTPATH environment variable. It
       is an error if no data dictionary can be loaded.

FILES

       <etcdir>/dcmpstat.cfg, <etcdir>/printers.cfg - sample configuration files

SEE ALSO

       dcmprscp(1)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1999-2010 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany.