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The General Function Menus
Setup Print Menu
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Print format
The Print F ormat menu selects the format the instrument uses to print
the screen to the selected destination. The printer formats available are
ThinkJet, P aintJet, P aintJet B/W , LaserJet, DeskJet 500C, DeskJet 540C,
DeskJet 550C, DeskJet 560C, DeskJet B/W , or Epson. When you print to a
disk, the ThinkJet, P aintJet, DeskJet, or LaserJet le is saved to the disk in
the Hewlett-P ackard PCL printer language format, while the Epson printer le
is saved to the disk in the Epson language format.
Y ou can also print to a le on the disk in a black and white TIFF le , color
TIFF , GIFF or 256 color PCX le . Y ou can import the TIFF or PCX les
to many desktop publishing programs or word-processing programs . The
resolution is 576 x 368 pixels , so you need a super V GA display on your PC to
see a complete screen image at 256 colors . Also , the TIFF and color TIFF les
comply with the TIFF 5.0 le 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 le is in the format
for the selected printer . If a printer is not connected to the instrument, 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 .
T o speed up the printing of data to printers , data is spooled to a buer inside
the instrument in 4 Kbyte blocks . After the rst 4 Kbytes are in the buer ,
the data is then sent to the printer . The buer can hold up to four black and
white les or one color le . The ve color printers are the HP P aintJet,
DeskJet 500C, DeskJet 540C, DeskJet 550C and DeskJet 560C.
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