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Printing Hard Copy
—flexible printing options
To make hard copies, use the optional built-in thermal printer, a printer attached to one of the rear-
panel ports, or connect to a network printer if your instrument is on a network. You can print the
full screen, just the graticule area, or a long continuous waveform as a banner. Banner printing
shows more detail, drawing samples that might otherwise overlap on the screen. Banners can only
be printed on the integrated thermal printer.
The instrument uses Windows print drivers, so the process to install printers is the same as it is on
any other PC.
The Page Setup dialog box contains some useful options to optimize your printing:
Choose a print palette that is independent from the display palette. For example, you can print
grayscale images to a black and white laser printer while you choose to view the display in
color. The color and grayscale palettes both render the intensity-graded waveform information
generated by the DPO display.
Choose the Ink Saver feature to print a hard copy with a white background. This function
saves printer ink while it preserves the color coding of the waveforms and readouts. Ink Saver
also works with the monochrome print palettes.
Choose to print a Summary Waveform at either or both ends of your banner. This gives you a
concise overall view of the instrument display before banner printing commenced.
Using Other PC Applications
—intuitive image and data transfer
Transferring images and data from the oscilloscope to other PC applications is as simple as a
copy/paste operation. With a word processing, spreadsheet, or analysis application running on the
built-in PC, you can easily transfer these items using the familiar Windows clipboard system:
Copy a full screen or graticule-only image and paste it into your document in either .BMP,
.PNG., PCX, .TIF, or .JPG format.
Copy a waveform and paste the waveform data into a spreadsheet in a comma-delimited
(.CSV) format.
Copy a waveform and paste the waveform data into an analysis program in Mathcad (.DAT)
format.
Copy the displayed measurements or a snapshot of all measurements and paste them into a
document in text (.TXT) format.
Copy the displayed measurements or a snapshot of all measurements and paste them into a
spreadsheet in a comma-delimited (.CSV) format.
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