# Want to send  Compressed instances but I am unable in doing the same

**URL:** https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/want-to-send-compressed-instances-but-i-am-unable-in-doing-the-same/2936
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**Created:** [June 3, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/want-to-send-compressed-instances-but-i-am-unable-in-doing-the-same/2936 "2022-06-03T14:25:27Z")
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### Author: ![Mayur](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mayur](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/Mayur)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/want-to-send-compressed-instances-but-i-am-unable-in-doing-the-same/2936/1 "2022-06-03T14:25:27Z")

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on sending uncompressed instance, receiver is receiving uncompressed one only  
configuration part is below  
/\*\*  
“IngestTranscoding” : “1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.70”,  
\*\*/

// Whether ingest transcoding is applied to incoming DICOM instances  
// that have an uncompressed transfer syntax, i.e. Little Endian  
// Implicit, Little Endian Explicit or Big Endian Explicit (new in  
// Orthanc 1.8.2).  
“IngestTranscodingOfUncompressed” : true,

// Whether ingest transcoding is applied to incoming DICOM instances  
// that have a compressed transfer syntax (new in Orthanc 1.8.2).  
“IngestTranscodingOfCompressed” : true,

// The compression level that is used when transcoding to one of the  
// lossy/JPEG transfer syntaxes (integer between 1 and 100).  
“DicomLossyTranscodingQuality” : 90,

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### Author: ![alainmazy](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/user_avatar/discourse.orthanc-server.org/alainmazy/32/1576_2.png) [@alainmazy](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/alainmazy)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/want-to-send-compressed-instances-but-i-am-unable-in-doing-the-same/2936/2 "2022-06-04T05:16:51Z")

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Remove /\*\* and \*\*/ around “IngestTranscoding” : “1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.70”,

As is, it is commented out and not taken into account in the configuration file

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### Author: ![Mayur](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mayur](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/Mayur)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/want-to-send-compressed-instances-but-i-am-unable-in-doing-the-same/2936/3 "2022-06-08T08:40:47Z")

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Thanks a lot.