Tektronix TDS 500C User Manual

Saving Waveforms and Setups

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

Although not guaranteed, usually about 2.5 hardcopies can be spooled before the
oscilloscope must wait to send the rest of the third copy.

To send hardcopies to a disk, do the following steps:

1. Set up the oscilloscope communication and hardware parameters as outlined

in To Set Up for Making Hardcopies on page 3–166.

2. If saving to a floppy disk, insert a formatted 720 Kbyte or 1.44 Mbyte floppy

disk into the slot at the left of the oscilloscope display.

NOTE. To format disks, delete hardcopy files you save to disk, and otherwise
manage the disk storage, see Managing the File System on page 3–160.

3. Press SHIFT ➞ HARDCOPY MENU ➞ Port (main) ➞ File (side) to

specify that any hardcopy be output to a disk file. The file list and its
scrollbar will appear.

4. Turn the general purpose knob to place the scroll bar over the file in which to

store the hardcopy.

NOTE. Upon power on, the oscilloscope creates the “wild card” file
TEK?????.FMT for storing hardcopies, where “.FMT” is replaced by the
hardcopy format you select. Selecting this file and pressing Hardcopy stores a
hardcopy in a uniquely named, sequentially numbered file. For instance, the
oscilloscope saves the first hardcopy you save to the file TEK00001.FMT, the
second to TEK00002.FMT, and so on.

5. Press HARDCOPY to print your hardcopy to the selected file.

Saving files to the disk provides a convenient way to store hardcopies. You can
print hardcopies stored on disk at a site remote from where the hardcopies were
captured. Or you might load stored hardcopies from disk into your desktop
publishing software that runs on a PC-compatible computer.