Fluke PM-3370B, PM-3380B, PM-3390B Making a Hardcopy of the Screen, CombiScope Instrument, Ieee

APPLICATION PROGRAM EXAMPLES A - 9

A.4 Making a Hardcopy of the Screen

In the following example a hardcopy of the screen picture is made as follows:

1)Enter the hardcopy of the screen in HPGL data format.

2)Send the entered data buffer to a HPGL plotter connected via the IEEE bus.

Application summary:

CombiScope

instrument

IEEE

computer

IEEE plotter

•Connect the HPGL plotter to the computer via the GPIB interface.

•Turn off the power of the HPGL plotter to prevent the plotter from starting to plot during the data transport from the CombiScope instrument to the computer.

•Create the picture (waveforms + text) on the screen that you want to hardcopy to the plotter. The CombiScope instrument must be in its digital mode (DSO).

•	Select the hardcopy HPGL format by sending:	HCOPy:DEVice HPGL
•	Enter the hardcopy HPGL data by sending:	HCOPy:DATA?
	and by reading the response data, i.e.: #0<hardcopy data>.

•Stop program execution to let you turn on the power of the HPGL plotter.

•Finally send the HPGL <hardcopy data> to the HPGL plotter. As a result the picture of the screen is plotted on the plotter paper.

Application program:

Note: The program is supplied on floppy under file name EXAPPA4.BAS.