How to Connect a Printer Additional Information
Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Sixth Edition 81
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 310 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 310 for a diagram of your mainframe’s rear panel.
3 To select a printer type, see “How to Select the Printer Type” on page 75.
You can then print out any of the following information:
• a help screen, see “How to Get Help” on page 50,
• data from an application, see “Printing Application Measurement Results” on
page 283.
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