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ANNEX I CU.K. Requirements for construction, testing, installation, and inspection
3.CONSTRUCTION AND FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR RECORDING EQUIPMENTU.K.
3.16 Printing U.K.
(169)The recording equipment shall be able to print information from its data memory and/or from tachograph cards in accordance with the seven following printouts:U.K.
driver activities from card daily printout,
driver activities from Vehicle Unit daily printout,
events and faults from card printout,
events and faults from Vehicle Unit printout,
technical data printout,
over speeding printout.
tachograph card data history for a given VU (see chapter 3.12.16)
The detailed format and content of these printouts are specified in Appendix 4.
Additional data may be provided at the end of the printouts.
Additional printouts may also be provided by the recording equipment, if clearly distinguishable from the seven aforementioned printouts.
(170)The ‘driver activities from card daily printout’ and ‘Events and faults from card printout’ shall be available only when a driver card or a workshop card is inserted in the recording equipment. The recording equipment shall update data stored on the relevant card before starting printing.U.K.
(171)In order to produce the ‘driver activities from card daily printout’ or the ‘events and faults from card printout’, the recording equipment shall:U.K.
either automatically select the driver card or the workshop card if one only of these cards is inserted,
or provide a command to select the source card or select the card in the driver slot if two of these cards are inserted in the recording equipment.
(172)The printer shall be able to print 24 characters per line.U.K.
(173)The minimum character size shall be 2.1 mm high and 1.5 mm wide.U.K.
(174)The printer shall support the characters specified in Appendix 1 Chapter 4 ‘Character sets’.U.K.
(175)Printers shall be so designed as to produce these printouts with a degree of definition likely to avoid any ambiguity when they are read.U.K.
(176)Printouts shall retain their dimensions and recordings under normal conditions of humidity (10-90 %) and temperature.U.K.
(177)The type approved paper used by the recording equipment shall bear the relevant type approval mark and an indication of the type(s) of recording equipment with which it may be used.U.K.
(178)Printouts shall remain clearly legible and identifiable under normal conditions of storage, in terms of light intensity, humidity and temperature, for at least two years.U.K.
(179)Printouts shall conform at least to the test specifications defined in Appendix 9.U.K.
(180)It shall also be possible to add hand-written notes, such as the driver's signature, to these documents.U.K.
(181)The recording equipment shall manage ‘paper out’ events while printing by, once paper has been re-loaded, restarting printing from printout beginning or by continuing printing and providing an unambiguous reference to previously printed part.U.K.