Lab 1: Curve Tracer
Note: You need to save your measurement graph and print it from a computer.
How to Save Your Measurement Graph
Make sure you have a formatted DOS floppy disk.
- Display the graph screen by pressing GRAPH/LIST key
- Press Plot/Print softkey
- To save the graph to a file, press FILE secondary soft key
- Enter the file name into the FILE NAME entry
- Make sure the language field is PCL (this should be the default)
- To start saving, press Print/Plot softkey
- To close the GRAPH PLOT dialog box, select EXIT softkey.
How to Print the PCL File You Just Saved to a HP Printer
On Win 2k machine
To print on a network printer
- Get a DOS command window by clicking Start->Run.... Enter
"command" or "cmd" in the pop up box and enter.
- In the directory that contains your file, enter
lpr -S server_name -P printer_name -o l file_name
The "-o l" option means the file is binary file.
In EE105 lab, the command becomes
lpr -S korchnoi -P 353-hp8000 -o l file_name
To print on your home machine that is connected to a parallel port
- Get a DOS command window by clicking Start->Run.... Enter
"command" or "cmd" in the pop up box and enter.
- In the directory that contains your file, enter
copy /b file_name LPT1
If LPT1 does not work, try LPT2, etc. This depends on your PC
configuration.
On UNIX machine (I haven't tried this)
Use the lpr command as usual.