Step 1 - Finish DicomBurn Installation
DicomBurn Setup Guide
Step 2 - Install and configure Epson software
1. Epson Total Disc Maker
2. Epson Total Disc Setup
Register your printer as above.
3. Epson TD Bridge
During Epson TDBridge installation, change the default watch folder path to - C:\PTburnjobs
Download and install Epson TDBridge , always check Epson website for latest versions.
Epson PP-50 Robot require TD Bridge activation. Activate TD Bridge by clicking 'DiscProducerActivationTool.exe' in the TD Bridge installation directory.
4. Install Epson Total Disc Monitor
After all installations, you should have these five entries in Windows startup menu.
If your PC ask for a reboot, do it.
Step 3 - Print a demo CD
- Open Epson TD Bridge Environment settings and check the default, input/out/stacker selections.
- See the disc type & bin settings in DicomBurn 'Disc Rules' (middle screen). Same settings must be applied in the stacker selections or vise-verse.
- Open Epson Total Disc Monitor and see if the message says it is ready for publishing.
- Open Epson Total Disc Maker, create a Job for the printer, make sure to add few files for burning and choose a label file for printing.
- Burn it to the new printer.
- Check the CD content and the label
- If all is not good, fix the printer/printing parameters, ink, lid, whatever to get the pending job done.
Step 4 - Print a DICOM Disc
- Keep the Epson Total Disc Monitor running, this will give the real time progress/error updates.
- On DicomBurn screen select the Burn target as Epson CD or Epson DVD based on the Epson TD Bridge Environment settings, And put CD or DVDs accordingly into the printer.
- If a viewer is required, select a viewer from the Viewers dropdown, you can add new viewers by copying a new viewer folder into 'Viewers' folder at DicomBurn installation directory.
- Check if the AutoBurn mode is selected in DicomBurn, Now, push some studies to DicomBurn, and watch it.
Step 5 - Change label design
If all is good, you can change the DicomBurn default label file to your facility name, logo, a new design etc.
There are two copies of the designer file, one is at DicomBurn installation directory, which works as a backup, and the worker version is at C:\PTBurnJobs\[user name folder], the file is cdlabel.tdd. Open it in Epson Total Disc Maker, and do the changes, keep a backup of the original cdlabel.tdd, and replace the two copies with the new one.
Do not edit the {DICOM} fields in the designer file, you may however re-arrange or hide them.
