Home Videographic Recorders Evidence of the many benefits of videographic, or paperless, recorders are the large number of suppliers that now offer these types of instruments. Some are relative newcomers to the recorder field, utilizing their expertise in electronic technology to meet user needs.
Some models offer the flexibility of plotting records horizontally or vertically.
Some suppliers offer a 5-inch wide display area or larger. In addition to displaying trend records or bar graphs, the instruments can be configured at will to provide large digital displays of the measurements in engineering units or small digital readings along with the trend curves. The recorder's disk or card can be removed and used to download all its accumulated data to a PC that has the necessary software. This can be two-way communication. Thus, an operator at a PC in a control room could monitor the recorder readings in real-time, call for specific data, and even reconfigure the recorder.