R&S ESCI Measurement Documentation
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Measurement Documentation – HCOPY Key
Note: The installation of additional printers is described together with the INSTALL PRINTER
softkey.
HCOPY menu
HCOPY
COLOR
ON OFF
PRINT
SCREEN
PRINT
TRACE
PRINT
TABLE
DEVICE
SETUP
COMMENT
INSTALL
PRINTER
PREDEFINED
COLORS
TINT
SATURATION
BRIGHTNESS
SELECT
OBJECT
SCREEN
COLORS
OPTIMIZED
COLORS
USER
DEFINED
COLORS
SET TO
DEFAULT
DEVICE
1 2
The HCOPY key opens the HARDCOPY menu for starting and configuring the printout.
Pressing one of the softkeys PRINT, SCREEN, PRINT TRACE or PRINT TABLE in the HCOPY menu
initiates the print job. The printer parameters defined in the DEVICE SETTINGS menu are used for
setting up the printer configuration. All of the display items to be printed are written to the printer buffer.
Since the printer runs in the background, the instrument may be operated immediately after pressing the
PRINT... softkey.
With PRINT SCREEN selected, all the diagrams with traces and status displays are printed as they
occur on the screen. Softkeys, open tables and data entry fields are not printed.
The PRINT TRACE function allows individual traces to be printed. With PRINT TABLE, tables can be printed.
The DEVICE 1 and 2 softkeys are used for selecting and configuring the output interface.
If the PRINT TO FILE option in the DEVICE SETTINGS table is selected, the printout is directed to a file.
Upon pressing one of the PRINT... softkeys, the file name to which the output data is to be written is
requested. An entry field is then opened for entering the file name.
The COLORS submenu allows switchover between black-and-white and colour printouts (default), provided
that the printer connected can produce colour printouts. In addition, the colours are set in this submenu.
• SCREEN Output in screen colours.
• OPTIMIZED (default) Instead of light colours, dark colours are used for traces and markers: trace 1
blue, trace 1 black, trace 3 green, markers turquoise.
• USER DEFINED This option enables the user to change the colours at will. It provides the same
setting functions as the DISPLAY – CONFIG DISPLAY – NEXT menu.