ab1 files batch printing

[thedamian]

Hi,
I use FinchTV for printing the .ab1 files. FinchTV allows to print one file at time. It is time consuming when I have to print ~300 files. Is there any software that allows to print ab1 files automatically?

[sklages]

Convert to postscript, after that you can easily print in batches,

Trace2PS and FSA2PS:
two software toolkits for converting trace and fsa files to PostScript format

http://www.scfbm.org/content/4/1/4

hth, Sven

[thedamian]

It works pretty well! Very thank you!

[thedamian]

Chromas 2.4 has an option for batch printing

http://technelysium.com.au/?page_id=13

[pmiguel]

Why print them at all? Free tools like FinchTrace allow you to view the .ab1 file interactively. What possible benefit comes from wasting all that paper?

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Phillip

[thedamian]

Why print them at all? Free tools like FinchTrace allow you to view the .ab1 file interactively. What possible benefit comes from wasting all that paper?

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Phillip

Well, the diagnostics team in my company needs it. They make some notes on it, "screen" it by eyes, and, suprisingly, they find mutations/changes that have not been found by any specialised program.

[pmiguel]

Well, the diagnostics team in my company needs it. They make some notes on it, "screen" it by eyes, and, suprisingly, they find mutations/changes that have not been found by any specialised program.

Can't they just annotate a pdf of the chromat? I mean, it would not be worth it to implement such a change if this involved a few chromats at a time. But hundreds?

Sounds like printing hundreds of them isn't common, since you are just asking this question now. So maybe it still isn't worth the effort to go electronic. Just seems crazy to me.

At least your printouts are getting looked at. I just imagined this as some sort of pro forma process, with all the chromats being filed away in notebooks, never to be looked at.

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Phillip