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Reprinting ATune Report

jbornga

Normally our instrument prints the ATune report directly to our printer upon completion of the tune.  Due to a printer issue this timet the report was not printed.  We can see all the data (in various files) but can't seem to find a copy of the nice neat report anywhere.  Does anyone know how to print the ATune report without running the tune again?

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    What version of software are you using?  Newer versions of MassHunter save the tune report as a PDF.  Default location should be X:\MassHunter\GCMS\#\5977\PDF, where X is the drive where for the instrument data (usually D if the PC was part of an Agilent bundle) and # is the instrument number that was configured in the MassHunter configuration.

    In MassHunter (and MSD Chemstation) you can generate a tune report.  This will turn on the MSD to generate the profile peaks and spectra but will not change any of the tune parameters.  Go to the Tune and Vacuum Control view, File menu, and select Generate Report.

  • 0 in reply to Lance Nelson

    We are currently utilizing Masshunter version B.07.00.1413 and there does not seem to be any PDF of the report saved.  There is a strange ".u" file associated with the tunes in a similar location as you listed for the PDF but no readible report.

  • 0 in reply to jbornga

    B.07.00 was released March 2013, more than eleven years ago. There have been 14 releases since then. 

    atune.u, bfb.u, dftpp.u, etune.u, HES_atune.u, ncich4.u, pcich4.u, and stune.u are the instrument tune files that get updated and used to set the MS parameters during data acquisition.

    Lance Nelson said:
    In MassHunter (and MSD Chemstation) you can generate a tune report.  This will turn on the MSD to generate the profile peaks and spectra but will not change any of the tune parameters.  Go to the Tune and Vacuum Control view, File menu, and select Generate Report.

    That's the only way to get a report after the fact for that version of software. It's also a really great way to see if the instrument even needs to be tuned. Generate a report, visually evaluate it and if the numbers all look reasonable there is no need to tune it.

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