The ImageWriter step allows you to save an image from your runtime project either locally on your runtime platform or remotely across your network. You can save the full image or a part of the image, and have the ImageWriter step annotate it directly. Before being able to save on any computer, you must have the network permission to write to the folder, and the folder must currently be available. When saving the image, you must specify a root file name for the image file. You can embed a date/time timestamp in this file name using the DATETIME function. This is useful when your application needs to output images based on the current time or the Camera step's GrabTime property.