Using the Marco Interface

  1. Ensure that the Marco equipment is connected to the computer that ExamWRITER is installed on with an EP21-10-0809 serial cable or a null modem serial cable.
  2. Ensure that ExamWRITER is open.
  3. Create a blank exam, or open a saved exam for an existing patient.
  4. In the ExamWRITER chart window, click the Interfaces icon.
  5. Select the Marco device that corresponds to your Marco equipment. If you gave the equipment a nickname in the Eyefinity Equipment Interface Setup window, that name appears in this list.

    The Eyefinity Equipment Interface window opens and displays this message: Waiting on Exam Data from DeviceName.

  6. On the Marco equipment operation panel, press Print.

    The operation panel displays all the recorded data.

  7. Press Print again.

    The operation panel prints the recorded data and displays this message: Printing result data.

    The data is then imported into the patient exam, and the Eyefinity Equipment Interface Setup window closes.

  8. View the data as follows:

    • In the patient exam, go to the Vision/Rx > Spectacle and Binocular tabs.

    • If you use the Marco OPD-Scan III device with a standalone connection configured to display images, view the images on the Images - Drawings tab under the Images, Drawings and Graphics category bar.

    • The manifest prism data is displayed as binocular phoria data.
    • If the Phoria - Distance and Phoria - Near Test boxes contain “Von Graefe,” change the name of the test by clicking in the Test box and selecting a new test from the Test drop-down list.
    • NT (tonometry) data is not saved on the IC card when you use the Marco RT-5100 (EPIC 5100) device. If you use the IC card to transfer data from the autorefractor/keratometer (ARK) equipment to the Marco RT-5100 (EPIC 5100) device, the data does not appear in the IOP table.
    • For the K radius values to appear in the K-Readingsboxes in ExamWRITER, the following Marco equipment must be set for the K radius units to be either diopters or diopters and millimeters:
      • RT-2100 (TRS-2100 or EPIC 2100) device
      • RT-5100 (EPIC 5100), TRS-3100, or RT-900 (Evolution) device
      • Autorefractor/keratometer (ARK) equipment

      • If the Marco equipment is outputting the K radius values in millimeters only, the values do not appear in ExamWRITER.

    • For subjective data, the standard Marco VD of 13.75 is displayed in the Vertex Distbox.
    • The aniseikonia measurement is for distance only. A 00 output is translated as “Absent.” Otherwise, it is displayed as “Present” in the Aniseikonia boxes.
    • The pupillary distances are extracted from subjective (far and near) measurements in Marco and recorded in the PD box.
  1. Ensure that the Marco equipment is connected to the computer that ExamWRITER is installed on with an EP21-10-0809 serial cable or a null modem serial cable.
  2. Ensure that ExamWRITER is open.
  3. Create a blank exam, or open a saved exam for an existing patient.
  4. Verify that you have autorefraction and lensometer data recorded in the exam.
  5. In the ExamWRITER chart window, click the Interfaces icon.
  6. Select the Marco device that corresponds to your Marco equipment. If you gave the equipment a nickname in the Eyefinity Equipment Interface Setup window, that name appears in this list.

    A window opens and displays this message: Data Exported from ExamWRITER successfully. The exam data is displayed on the Marco RT 5100 (EPIC 5100) operation panel.

  7. Click OK.