Tektronix TDS 500C User Manual

Saving Waveforms and Setups

TDS 500C, TDS 600B, & TDS 700C User Manual

The oscilloscope prints hardcopies of its display in many formats, which allows
you to choose from a wide variety of hardcopy devices. It also makes it easier for
you to place oscilloscope screen copies into a desktop publishing system. The
oscilloscope supports the following formats:

H HP Thinkjet inkjet printer

H HP Deskjet inkjet printer

H HP Color Deskjet inkjet printer

H HP Laserjet laser printer

H Epson

H DPU-411/II portable thermal printer

H DPU-412 portable thermal printer

H PCXR (PC PaintbrushR)

H PCX Color (PC PaintbrushR)

H TIFFR (Tag Image File Format)

H BMPR Mono (Microsoft Windows file format)

H BMPR Color (Microsoft Windows file format)

H RLE Color (Microsoft Windows color image file format – compressed)

H EPS Mono Image (Encapsulated Postscript, mono-image)

H EPS Color Image (Encapsulated Postscript, color-image)

H EPS Mono Plot (Encapsulated Postscript, mono-plot)

H EPS Color Plot (Encapsulated Postscript, color-plot)

H Interleaf

H HPGL Color Plot

Depending on the output format selected, the oscilloscope creates either an
image or a plot. Images are direct bit map representations of the oscilloscope
display. Plots are vector (plotted) representations of the display.