Hello,
I use conquest as a dicom print scp with a logic7 US and a Siemens Somatom CT and works fine. However with the Siemens CT I face the following problem.
In the printouts (usually using 3x4 and 5x4 layout on A3 sized paper) the image texts are distorted (they are somehow pixelized and not smooth) and therefore not readable. It looks like when the dicom print image is transformed to BMP the interpolation is off so the image gets a little bit distorted when the size is adjusted to fit the default printer paper size.
The configuration we use is the following:
1. Xerox 7525 printer with 1200dpi and A3 as default settings
2. The Siemens Somatom Duo CT scanner is configured to "see" the Conquest Dicom Print SCP as a Condonics Horizon printer (it was the only availble with paper as an option in CT Scanner configuration menu) and sends the print jobs using 8x10 film size in order to reduce image resolution to about 2300x2000 pixels image in order to be small enough to cope with Xerox's resolution. (if we set the film size to 11x14 the Dicom print image size resolution is about 5000x4300 so perhaps exceeds printer PPI)
I did the following test succesfully to verify that the printer can deal with the image size. 1) I stopped the conquest user interface so all print jobs were qeued in the print_data folder 2. I opened a DICOM print file with a Dicom Viewer and copy paste the image (1to1 scale) in a Word file (A3 sized) 3. I printed the word file to the default printer and the image as well as the image text was of great quality. So that makes me guess that something goes wrong during the processing within the conquest user interface, propably the transformation of image from DICOM to BMP, such as absence of interpolation and smoothing.
Thanking you in advance for your help.
Dimitris Skordias