Tektronix 240 user manual Setting default HP-GL pen colors, Ctrl-D

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Setting default HP-GL pen colors

Note The HPGLPENS.PS file affects printer operation. If the printer is shared on a network, using this file may affect the prints requested from other users.

The HPGLPENS.PS file changes the color and width of the default pen colors. The HP 7475A plotter actually has only six pens, but the printer's emulation supports up to 256 pens.

The pen color change is persistent across jobs but not across printer power cycles; it affects all HP-GL jobs that immediately follow it until the next printer reset.

Note HP-GL pen settings cannot be made persistent across power cycles; pen settings revert to the default when the printer is turned off.

In HPGLPENS.PS, pen number, pen width, red value, green value, and blue value are listed in parentheses after /ColorSetup as shown below.

/ColorSetup (pen_number width red_value green_value blue_value...)

In the example below, all pen widths are set to 0.35 millimeters. Pen 0 is white (this is the background pen color), pen 1 is black, pen 2 is red, pen 3 is green, pen 4 is blue, pen 5 is cyan, pen 6 is magenta, and pen 7 is yellow.

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(%HP7475A%) << /Password ()

/ColorSetup (0 0.35 1.0 1.0 1.0 1 0.35 0.0 0.0 0.0 2 0.35 1.0 0.0 0.0 3 0.35 0.0 1.0 0.0 4 0.35 0.0 0.0 1.0 5 0.35 0.0 1.0 1.0 6 0.35 1.0 0.0 1.0 7 0.35 1.0 1.0 0.0)

>> setdevparams

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