Whether or not these days they necessarily have continuous printouts of a sequence of events, I don't know, but I IMAGINE the data is recorded digitally even if it is not printed as events happen. The IT side of the machine will make it possible to either print out all events, as they happened, to obtain a long strip of paper like in the bad old days, or it can be told to print out only the events of interest, i.e. those occurring at or between certain times, those occurring within X minutes of a certain kind of event, etc. etc.
This is the sort of thing not controlled by the event recorder proper, but by its "automate" function.
Explanation: printing on continuous paper (impression en continu). I have a feeling I had to look for this term ages ago and this is what I came up with ...
In this case, if I'm right, the logbook is being printed as the device operates.
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Explanation: "au fil de l'eau" is one of those terms that always makes you wonder, 'cos it's so dependent on context.
In this case, it clearly refers to how the "journal de bord" (JDB) is printed, and the ideal solution would be to refer back to exactly how and when this JDB is printed, and to re-use or paraphrase that. "au fil de l'eau" doesn't tell us much, but possibilities that occur to me are hourly (or some other frequency), or each time a certain event occurs, or indeed each time a user hits the "print" button.
"As and when required or necessary" is a general meaning of "au fil de l'eau" but I'm not sure that *really* fits here. At least in IT (which appears to loosely applicable here) the term "real time" approximately corresponds to the same notion.
And it seems possible that "printing functions other than 'real time' printing would probably refer to batch printing, or printing which is deferred to a later time for some reason (e.g. the time it takes to print a large report, for example). In which case the 'real time' is a term providing a valid contrast.
Whether or not these days they necessarily have continuous printouts of a sequence of events, I don't know, but I IMAGINE the data is recorded digitally even if it is not printed as events happen. The IT side of the machine will make it possible to either print out all events, as they happened, to obtain a long strip of paper like in the bad old days, or it can be told to print out only the events of interest, i.e. those occurring at or between certain times, those occurring within X minutes of a certain kind of event, etc. etc.
This is the sort of thing not controlled by the event recorder proper, but by its "automate" function.
The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +1
