How to Connect a Printer Additional Information
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave
Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
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• Plug the power cord into the power outlet.
NOTE Refer to the user’s guide that came with your monitor, if necessary, to locate your
monitor’s output and input ports.
How to Connect a Printer
You can use a printer connected to the parallel port on the rear panel of your
mainframe, see “Input and Output Connectors” on page 216 for a diagram of
your mainframe’s rear panel.
You can use either of the following printer types:
• <HP PCL>, a printer that uses the Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language,
or
• <EPSON 8 pin>, a printer that is compliant with Epson 8 pin printers.
To set up the printer, perform the following steps:
1 Set up your printer as described in your printer’s User’s Guide.
2 Connect a parallel cable between your printer’s parallel connector to the
parallel port on the rear panel of your mainframe, see “Input and Output
Connectors” on page 216 for a diagram of your mainframe’s rear panel.
3 To select a printer type, see “How to Select the Printer Type” on page 59.
You can then print out any of the following information:
• a help screen, see “How to Get Help” on page 44,
• data from an application, see “Printing Application Measurement Results” on
page 194.
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