The General Function Menus
Setup Print Menu
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Print format
The Print Format menu selects the format the instrument uses to print
the screen to the selected destination. The printer formats available are
ThinkJet, PaintJet, PaintJet B/W, LaserJet, DeskJet 500C, DeskJet 540C,
DeskJet 550C, DeskJet 560C, DeskJet B/W, or Epson. When you print to a
disk, the ThinkJet, PaintJet, DeskJet, or LaserJet le is saved to the disk in
the Hewlett-Packard PCL printer language format, while the Epson printer le
is saved to the disk in the Epson language format.
You
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 PaintJet,
DeskJet 500C, DeskJet 540C, DeskJet 550C and DeskJet 560C.
Key Path
4
Setup print
5
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Print format
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