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Making Measurements
Printing Measurement Results
Printing Measurement Results
Measurement results can be sent directly to a printer. Simply connect
a compatible printer to the rear-panel PARALLEL PRINTER PORT con-
nector. The output is ASCII text. An example of a compatible printer is
Hewlett-Packard
®
’s LaserJet
1
series printer. Be sure to use a parallel
printer cable to connect the printer.
The printer output is not a copy of the display. Rather, it is a listing
of all signals present at the input (up to 200). The measurement values
printed depend on the settings of the instrument when the Print key is
pressed. The following is an example of a typical printout:
Agilent 86120C SER US39400020
Firmware Ver. 1.000
List By Wavelength
8 Lines
Power Offset 0.0 dB
Vacuum
Elevation 0 Meters
Update Normal
Peak Excursion 15 dB
Peak Threshold 10 dB
Device Narrow
Input
Wavelength
Power
1280.384nm -16.97dBm
1281.473 -13.14
1282.569 -13.92
1283.651 -13.34
1284.752 -11.69
1285.840 -8.11
1286.944 -10.38
1288.034 -14.65
To create a hardcopy
1 Connect the printer to the Agilent 86120C’s rear-panel PARALLEL
PRINTER PORT connector.
2 Press Print. You can use the ABORT and CONT softkey to stop and restart
a print job that is in progress.
1. Hewlett-Packard and LaserJet are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.