Trigger the printout of time sheets on the machine
You can trigger the printout of time sheets directly on the machine. You can use such hard copies as a reliable data basis for job costing and an employee-related performance record.
Like in the respective Analyze Point report, the time sheet shows all manually and automatically recorded actions of an employee.
Prerequisite: You need the "Analyze Point Base" license to be able to print a time sheet on the machine.
You can print the time sheet using the following devices:
•Prinect Press Center
•Prinect CP2000 Center
•Prinect Data Terminal with or without counter box
•Integrated Prinect Data Terminal for online finishing machines
Configuration of time sheet printing for Prinect Press Center / Prinect CP2000 Center devices and devices connected via Data Terminal
To trigger the printing of time sheets, you must make the following settings in the Device Assistant wizard of Central Device Manager:
1.In Prinect Cockpit, go to "Administration > System" and select the computer name of the Prinect Production server.
2.In "CDM" select the device on which you want to print the time sheet.
3.Select "Edit" in the context menu.
The "Device Assistant" appears.
4.Click "Next" repeatedly until you are in the "Summary" view.
In "Print", you configure the optional printing of time sheets.
5.Activate the option "Enable Print" (1).
6.Select the printer on which the time sheet is to be printed (2).
You can find details about setting up a printer for printing time sheets in: Defining Windows printers on the Prinect server.
7.Select a time sheet template (3).
All templates automatically contain time sheet printing. This means that you can print a time sheet on the machine even if you select an accompanying papers template. Select "Daily Time Sheet Only" if you wish to print just time sheets.
You will find more information on how to define time sheet templates at the following point: Accompanying Papers.
Other settings in Device Assistant are not required.
8.Confirm your settings with "Finished". The Device Assistant closes.
Check or edit time sheet printing in "Device configuration"
In "Device configuration" you can check the settings for printing of time sheets for the installed devices or change them if necessary. Proceed as follows:
1.In Cockpit, go to "Administration > Device configuration > Devices".
2.Select the device for which you wish to configure the printing of time sheets.
3.Click "Open".
The dialog for the device opens: If necessary, you can change the configuration made in the device assistant for printing timed sheets here. You can edit the following options:
4.You can enable or disable the option "Enable Print" (1). You can enable the following options only if this option is enabled.
5.If applicable, select a different printer on which the time sheets are to be printed (2).
You can find details about setting up a printer for printing time sheets in: Defining Windows printers on the Prinect server.
6.Select a time sheet template (3).
All templates automatically contain time sheet printing. This means that you can print time sheets on the machine if one of the accompanying paper templates is selected. Select "Daily Time Sheet Only" if you wish to print just time sheets.
7.Confirm the dialog with "OK".
Enable automatic printing of time sheets
For presses connected to Prinect Press Center/Prinect CP2000 Center, it is also possible for the time sheet of an employee to be printed automatically after logout. This prevents forgetting to print the daily sheet after the end of a shift.
If the option is not enabled, employees can print their time sheet up to a maximum of four hours after their last logout. After four hours, a new shift starts automatically and all old data are overwritten. It is only possible to print the time sheet later than that in Analyze Point.
The option for printing is disabled by default. Proceed as follows to enable the option:
1.In Prinect Cockpit, go to "Administration > System" and select the computer name of the Prinect server.
2.Scroll to "Central Device Manager" on the right.
3.Click "Properties".
The "Properties" dialog opens:
4.Enable "Print time sheet automatically on user logout".
5.Confirm with "Apply".
The setting is active at once and sent to the Prinect Press Center/Prinect CP2000 Center.
Impact on Prinect Data Terminal
This option does not affect the printing of time sheets at Prinect Data Terminal. On Data Terminal, it is always possible to print the time sheet of an employee more than four hours after his/her last logout.
Note: If an employee has been logged off for more than four hours, the time sheet can only be printed out subsequently in the "Login" window by pressing the "Time sheet" button. In such cases, however, the employee should not log in to the system, as a new shift automatically begins when they log in and all old data is lost.
"Login" window of Prinect Data Terminal where employees can print the time sheets of their last shift even later than four hours after their last logout without logging in again.
Behavior of Time Sheet Printing if Several Machine Operators are logged in
It is possible for several operators to log in at the same time on a machine (press). An operator can log in either as a print job manager or as an assistant.
Below, we assume that a print job manager and an assistant are logged in to the press. The machine does not "know" which operator is doing which action if two print job managers are logged in. For this reason, all actions are booked automatically to the print job manager who was the last to log in.
A print job manager and assistant are logged in on the machine.
If a print job manager and an assistant are logged in on a machine (press), the machine will automatically book all messages to the print job manager. Assistants can also print their own time sheets. For this time sheet, only the "Printing assistance" action is recorded for the entire log-in period.
The following prerequisites must be met to print the time sheet of the assistant:
1.In the device assistant section "Administration > System > CDM", the "Assistant" option must be enabled in the general settings. This is the only way for an assistant to log in on the machine.
See "Assigning operations" configuration step.
2."Print time sheet automatically on user logout" must be enabled in the system settings.
As a result, the time sheet is printed automatically when the assistant logs out of the machine. It is not possible to print a time sheet for the assistant in the form of a manual operation (PDC message). See also Enable automatic printing of time sheets.
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