This is a Data Acquisition and Archival System intended to record real-time measurements on Printer heads, for benchmarking the performance of the printers.

The machine reel data of printer heads is measured on a PC with a proprietary OS. The data thus generated needs to be archived on a Windows NT machine and then transferred to a UNIX database. The system polls the serial port and accesses the data using a pre-defined handshaking protocol. Once data is received, it gets catalogued and stored.

Important parameters of the data are displayed on the screen. It then gets transferred to a UNIX database. A log of the recent data images transferred is also maintained. If the UNIX database is inaccessible, the images are transferred at a later time. The operator retains the flexibility to delete, modify and add additional reel information to the data images throughout the whole process.

The system was developed using MS Visual C++ and MFC