StellarPrint — DICOM Print Server
Print directly from any DICOM modality to any standard printer and reduce your hardcopy cost
Overview
StellarPrint Sever Solution turns your office printer into a full-featured DICOM printer. It can receive print requests directly from imaging modalities, translate them to standard Windows print requests, and then forward it them to your standard office printer(s).
The solution consists of a Windows PC equipped with Stellar DICOM Print Solution, in conjunction with a high-quality office printer, effectively serving as a complete replacement for a DICOM film printer. It is capable of producing high-quality grayscale and color print outputs. Furthermore, it adheres to the DICOM 3.0 standard and functions as a Service Class Provider (SCP) for standard Basic Grayscale/Color Print Management SOP classes, and additionally accepts DICOM Storage (C-STORE) from any imaging modality for centralized image receipt and archiving alongside print jobs.
Benefits
- The solution provides huge cost savings over conventional film printing solutions
- Image quality is comparable to Film, if combined with the good-quality office printer
- Quick printing improves communication with referring physicians and patient
- Convenient centralized image print management for simplified workflow
- Expedited printing enhances communication between referring physicians and patients.Can handle large volumes of print loads depending on the configured printer Lower capital investments, running cost, and maintenance.
- Reduced environmental impact
- Lower capital investments, running cost and maintenance
- Flexible, modular licensing — pay only for the modalities and features you use, with offline activation available for air-gapped hospital networks
Key Features
- Unattended centralized DICOM 3.0 compliant network print service
- DICOM Print Service Class SCP (Basic Grayscale/Color)
- DICOM Storage Service Class Provider (SCP) — receives and archives images from any modality alongside print jobs
- Can be deployed as headless unattended service application
- Individual modality configurations and promiscuous mode support
- Provides in-place replacement of existing DICOM dry printer
- Remote support and maintenance
- Customizable header/footer
- Optional feature for supporting modalities that do not support direct DICOM print
- Optional film composer with customizable layouts
- Modular, per-modality licensing (e.g. CT, MR) — activate only the modalities you need
- Air-gapped/offline license activation for secure hospital networks without internet access
Inside the StellarPrint Composer
For modalities that can't print directly to DICOM, the Composer lets an operator pull in received images and lay them out for printing, with full control over the film layout and output settings:
- Standard multi-image film layouts (1x1 up to 5x4, plus fully custom row/column arrangements)
- Configurable film size — from standard film sizes (8"x10" up to 14"x17") to metric (24x24cm, 24x30cm) and A4/A3 paper
- Adjustable orientation, print DPI, and copy count per job
- Choice of print medium — paper, clear film, or blue film
- One-click toggle for the DICOM patient/study text overlay
- Optional de-identification of the printed patient-info overlay (blanks patient name, ID, sex, age, and referring physician) — useful for teaching, QA, or research prints
- Save named print/layout profiles and publish one as a shared template so other Composer workstations can reuse the same standardized layout
- Manage and switch between multiple configured DICOM printers from a single workstation
Panoramic Image Stitching
The StellarPrint Composer includes an integrated panoramic stitching tool that combines a sequence of X-ray exposures — captured while panning the table or C-arm along the patient — into a single long-format reference image. It supports whole-spine and whole-leg (long-bone) studies, as well as vascular runs using Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), with dedicated tuning for arterial and venous phases.
Automatically generated panoramas include a quality score to help flag alignment issues. When an operator manually adjusts a stitch, the Composer requires an explicit on-screen acknowledgement that the result is for informational and reference purposes only and is not intended for primary diagnosis or treatment planning — the original source images remain the record for clinical review.
Packages
Stellar Print Server
The standalone Stellar Print service running on a Windows PC (supports headless mode) which is recommended for in-place replacement DICOM Dry Printer
Stellar Print Server with Image Composer
The Stellar Print Server with Image composer can do all the above in addition it has DICOM image receiver and film composure to support modalities that does not have direct DICOM print option, plus optional panoramic image stitching for long-bone, spine, and DSA vascular studies
We also provide headless print server appliance
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