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Printing an Experiment Report
Rock Maker allows you to print comprehensive details related to experiments. A printed report can include layer information and design, ingredient and image views in addition to more general information. You can keep the printed reports as records for your lab notebook.
To print an experiment report:
- Right-click an experiment node from the tree and select Experiment Report.
OR
Click the Experiment Report button
on the Report tab in the Experiment contextual tab set.

Report Printing Options
- Select a list of Projects to print more than one experiment report.
- Select or clear the check boxes next to the desired print options.
By default, all printing options are selected the first time you print. You can clear any of these to exclude them from the printout. Rock Maker will remember your selections the next time you print. - Click Print Preview to see a preview before you print.
OR
Click Print to send your report to the printer.
General Experiment Report
At the beginning of the Print Summary Report are sections that contain general information such as:
- experiment data
- project data
- imaging settings used by the experiment
- the experiment's imaging schedule
- the plates generated by the experiment, and
- the full list of ingredients used in all experiment layers.
Experiment Report
Layer Information
The area of the report includes a separate section for each layer of the experiment including layer design data specific to that layer type. Here is an example of what you would see for two Grid layers.
Layer Information
Design, Ingredient and Image Views
At the end of the Experiment Report are images of each experiment plate in Design view, Image view, and Ingredient view.
Design view
Image view
Ingredient view
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