Many times when vessel are very old. Let say approximately 20-30years old.
The equipment on board are very old as well.
Vessel may sell for scrap in 1-2 years time.
To reduce cost on order printer since it is mandatory to install order printer for any voyage.
But because either order printer is obsolete or naviprint could not be output to the order printer.
There is a solution. As long as the gyro compass could output NMEA HDT sentence, the solution is relatively low cost.
Install a UDR(Universal Digital Repeater), set the output to transmit naviprint sentence.
Connect a Epson dot matrix LQ310, then it will do the job.
Please see attached drawing.
