Tektronix 240 user manual Printing hints, Getting the largest printed picture

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Printing hints

Getting the largest printed picture

Use the Tektronix Phaser 240 driver and perforated paper or transparencies to get the largest print areas. You may also have to adjust the margins in your application software.

Why should I use perforated paper?

By using Tektronix perforated paper (and transparencies), you can print full A-size or A4-size images with standard ISO margins

(5 mm; 0.2 in.).

How long does it take to make a print?

The total print time depends on the image complexity, the type of port used, and the printer's paper-marking speed. The paper-marking speed is the time it takes the printer to put the colored wax on the paper, once it has received the processed image.

Of these three elements, only the printer's paper-marking speed is predictable; the others can vary greatly depending on your system configuration and the type of image you are printing. However, the Phaser 240 PostScript interpreter combines very fast image processing and communication with sophisticated memory management to keep the total print time to a minimum. For details on the printer's paper-marking speed, see “Specifications” on page A-3.

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