Saving Waveforms and Setups
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The menu item File chooses a disk drive as the destination for hardcopies.
See To Save to a Disk on page 3–188. The disk drive can be either the floppy
disk drive, a hard disk (optional), or a Zip drive. When a Zip drive is
attached, File is selected and Centronics is grayed out.
Date/Time Stamp the Hardcopy. You can display the current date and time on
screen so that they appear on the hardcopies you print. To date and time stamp
your hardcopy, do the following steps:
1. Press DISPLAY ➞ Settings (main) ➞ Display (pop-up) ➞ Readout
Options (main) ➞ Display Date and Time (side) to toggle the setting to
On.
2. If you want to set the date and time, skip steps 3 and 4 and continue with
step 1 of Set the Date and Time below. Then redo this procedure.
3. Press Clear Menu to remove the menu from the display so the date and time
can be displayed. (See Figure 3–82.) (The date and time are removed from
the display when menus are displayed.)
4. Once the oscilloscope is connected to a hardcopy device, press
HARDCOPY to print your date/time stamped hardcopy.