Setting up the printer port, Selecting a graphics printer, Setting the date and time – Microtest TSB-67 - 568A Annex E User Manual

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The Language and Date Style fields are preprogrammed. Neither of these fields can be changed.
Press

Change (F2)

to toggle the Units setting between feet and meters.

After editing, press

Save (F1)

to store the new Units setting and exit or press the

ESCAPE

key to

exit without saving.

Setting Up the Printer Port

To display the

PRINTER PORT SETUP

screen, press the

Extended Functions

key,

select User

Preferences

(if you have a

PentaScanner+

), then select

Printer Port

. This screen lets you

configure serial printer port settings.

Press the

Ò

or

Ñ

arrow key to highlight a setting to modify — Baud rate or Handshaking.

The default settings for Baud rate and Handshaking are 9600 and XON/XOFF. The settings for
Data Bits, Stop Bits and Parity are fixed at 8, 1 and None. Their values cannot be changed.

After highlighting the Baud rate or Handshaking setting, press

Change (F2)

to toggle through the

available settings.

Press

Printer (F3)

to display the graphics printer screen.

Press

Save (F1)

to store the new settings and exit or press the

ESCAPE

key to exit without saving.

See Chapter 4: Editing, Printing & Updating for more information on printing and
downloading.

Selecting a Graphics Printer

To display the

GRAPHICS PRINTER

screen, press the

Extended Functions

key,

select User

Preferences

(if you have a

PentaScanner+

), then select

Printer Port

, then press

Printer (F3).

This screen lets you specify the type of printer used for printing NEXT and Attenuation graphs.

Press

Change (F2)

to toggle through the available printer settings.

Press

Save (F1)

to store the new settings and exit or press the

ESCAPE

key to exit without saving.

Setting the Date and Time

To display the

DATE/TIME SETUP

screen, press the

Extended Functions

key,

select User

Preferences

(if you have a

PentaScanner+

), then select

Date/Time

.

Press the

Ñ

or

Ò

or

Ï

or

Ð

arrow key to select the portion of the date or time field to

change. The selected portion of the field will be enclosed in a box.

Press

Change (F2)

to toggle through the available date and time settings.

After editing press

Save (F1)

to store the new date and time settings and exit or press the

ESCAPE

key to exit.

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