Print Format - HP 54710A User's Reference Manual

Setup Print Menu

Print Format

Print Format

The print format softkey menu is shown at the left.
This menu selects the format the oscilloscope uses to print the screen to the
selected destination. The printer formats available are ThinkJet, PaintJet,
LaserJet, DeskJet 500C, DeskJet 550C, DeskJet B/W, or Epson. When you
print to a disk, the ThinkJet, PaintJet, DeskJet, or LaserJet file is saved to the
disk in the Hewlett-Packard PCL printer language format, while the Epson
printer file is saved to the disk in the Epson language format.
You can also print to a file on the disk in a black and white TIFF file, color
TIFF, GIF, or 256-color PCX file. You can import the TIFF or PCX files to
many desk top publishing programs or word processing programs. The
resolution is 576 x 368 pixels, so you need a super VGA display on your PC to
see a complete screen image at 256 colors. Also, the TIFF and color TIFF
files comply with the TIFF 5.0 file format.
Even though you select a printer as a print format, you can still select the
disk as the destination instead of a printer. The resulting file is in the format
for the selected printer. If a printer is not connected to the oscilloscope, you
can print the data to a disk. Then, you can take that disk to a computer or
other device, and print from the disk to the printer.
To print from a disk
Because a print file is in a binary format, use the MS-DOS binary copy
command. For example, if you printer is on LPT1, you can use this command.
COPY/B <FILENAME> LPT1:
To speed up the printing of data to printers, data is spooled to a buffer inside
the oscilloscope in 4 Kbyte blocks. After the first 4 Kbytes are in the buffer,
the data is then sent to the printer. The buffer can hold up to four black and
white files or one color file. The three color printers are the PaintJet,
DeskJet 500C, and DeskJet 550C.
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