OT: video signal question

Bert Thomas wrote: The Sony units I have seen, are have the Sony Mavica name, and have a remote control bus that is used to trigger the prints. I would look for a control line to the printer, from the video source, unless they had a very specialized printer of some sort. There is the problem of having the print signal embedded in your video format, if you had several printers attached, having them all print. A larger system may have not only the operating suite with a printer and monitor, but might have other monitor, and printers in observation galleries. I would think that the docs would not want photos appearing on all of them if the operating surgeon hit a button. BTW the current suite goes to a cd, and the documentation is printed on regular HP printers (or whatever). I just got poked and was quite relieved not to see any surgical instruments with Microsoft logos on them. I'd have clenched myself pretty hard if that had been in evidence. I am counting hospitals and med groups now to see what the headless PC's being deployed have, and so far, I am up to three hospitals, and three med groups all running Windows 2k Profesional on their winterms. The operating room hardware in my case was HP for the patient monitor, running X (and I assume some sort of hpux underneath) and the endoscope was Philips, running some sort of embedded system, that looked more like X than any windows gui. Don't need a blue screen with a probe inside you. jim