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What is PrintCapture primarily used for?

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What is PrintCapture primarily used for?

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PrintCapture was designed to emulate a printer or plotter. It is normally used to replace the printer or plotter connected to your logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, or oscilloscope. When you ‘print’ from your test equipment PrintCapture creates an image file on your personal computer that can be used in other Windows-based programs to help you document your hardware. PrintCapture can replace a serial printer, serial plotter, parallel printer, parallel plotter, GPIB printer or GPIB plotter. The only requirement is that your oscilloscope, logic analyzer, or spectrum analyzer must transmit Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language (PCL), Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language (HPGL/2), or Epson ESC/P Control Code commands. One of the by-products of PCL processing is PrintCapture’s ability to process “pure” text files and create a bitmap image from the text data.