Sylvain wrote:
> So what does a Basic Film Session represent exactly in this command
> line because for each Stored Print Object to print, we create a Basic
> Film Session.

A Basic Film Session represents a number of attributes that may apply
to one or more film boxes, i.e. number of copies, priority of the print
job, the tray into which the print job should be sorted etc.
A film session may also serve as a "bracket" that defines a grouping
of film boxes, i.e. you can force the print server to print several
pages in several "sorted" copies by issueing the N-ACTION command
in the context of a film session. Not all printers support that,
and dcmprscu does not either.

> 2)Next question, I have started the command line dcmpsprt with
> multiple images dicom, and it creates one Stored Print Object and
> multiples HG images, which is logical but isn't the definition of a
> Basic Film Box with multiples Image Box ?

As posted before, a Stored Print object roughly corresponds to a
basic film box, but also stores the content of a number of other
objects such as some attributes of the basic image box, basic
annotation box, presentation LUT.
A Hardcopy Grayscale image contains a single pre-formatted image
that can be used in the context of one image box.

Regards,
Marco Eichelberg
OFFIS

A Hardcopy Grayscale image contains a single pre-formatted image
that can be used in the context of one image box.

> Marco Eichelberg
> OFFIS

--> I agree with you, but it seems to me that if I use dcmpsprt with
more various files dic which for me contain the image(s) box(es), the
stored print object created shall contain reference of all my dic
files (hardcopies grayscale created in fact) passed in arguments of
the command line. I think the index file (index.dat) updated or
created refers to the stored print object and its hardcopies linked
with the stored print object.

So sorry for not understanding but it seems to be an essential notion,
normally, if I "print" a Message Box with the argument of number of
Images of my stored print object, it should indicates the number of
dic filed (hardcopies grayscale created in fact) passed in arguments
of my dcmpsprt command line which serves to create my stored print
object.

sylvain

Sylvain wrote:
> --> I agree with you, but it seems to me that if I use dcmpsprt with
> more various files dic which for me contain the image(s) box(es), the
> stored print object created shall contain reference of all my dic
> files (hardcopies grayscale created in fact) passed in arguments of
> the command line.

That depends on the page layout (i.e. the value of the
ImageDisplayFormat attribute). The number of image references is
limited by the number of image boxes of the film box (i.e. page).

Regards,
Marco Eichelberg

Great, Thanks a lot for all your answers!



Marco Eichelberg wrote in message news:...
> Sylvain wrote:
> > --> I agree with you, but it seems to me that if I use dcmpsprt with
> > more various files dic which for me contain the image(s) box(es), the
> > stored print object created shall contain reference of all my dic
> > files (hardcopies grayscale created in fact) passed in arguments of
> > the command line.
>
> That depends on the page layout (i.e. the value of the
> ImageDisplayFormat attribute). The number of image references is
> limited by the number of image boxes of the film box (i.e. page).
>
> Regards,
> Marco Eichelberg