Using System Features
Using Print and Print Setup Functions
Printing a Screen Image to a File on A: or C: Drives
1.Press Print Setup, Print To. Toggle the Print To key to select File.
2.Press the File Type key, then select between gif, bmp, and wmf formats.
3.To print a file to the floppy drive, toggle the File Location key to A: and insert a 3.5” HD floppy disc, formatted for
To print a file to the internal flash memory, toggle the File Location key to C:.
4.Select the Image format to be stored on the disk. Use Normal to store an image that is identical to the currently displayed image, with a black background. Use Invert, which provides a a light background with a dark trace, to minimize ink and toner consumption.
5.Press HCOPy Dest, then select Printer. This enables you to generate up to six files containing screen images.
Note: if HCOPy Dest is set to FPanel only one file can be saved to memory or a floppy disk. Any subsequent screen files will overwrite the file currently saved in the A: or C: drives. For these reasons, Printer is usually the preferred selection.
6.Press the front panel PRINT key. If you have set HCOPy to Printer, six filenames will appear in the softkeys: screen1.xxx, screen2.xxx, screen3.xxx, screen4.xxx, screen5.xxx, and screen6.xxx (the xxx extension will be gif, bmp, or wmf, depending on the file type selected in File Type). The destination drive name will also be displayed.
Press the appropriate screen#.xxx key. Files written to the A: drive
will be located at A:screen#.xxx. Files written to the C: drive may
be accessed by the following path: /users/ftp/pub/screen#.xxx. Six files may be stored at the same time to either location. Any subsequent files stored to the same filename will overwrite the existing file
7.The disk may be removed from the A: drive once the LED on the disk drive is off. Any files you have saved are now available to be printed through use of an external computer and printer, or to be imported into an electronic document.
Files located on the C: drive may be retrieved over the LAN by ftp with the use of an external computer.
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