Printing to Printer

Once you have the plot you want on the screen, do the following to print the graphic to a printer:

After the last command, you should see a message like the following:

This means that is was printed.

To go back to having the graphical display, type the following:

If you want to print later, you only have to do the last three of the commands, i.e.,

Note that the lp in the output command is the print command for your machine. Use can use the following for the output command:

set output "| lp" - Prints to the default printer for your machine. For machines in Wright 339, this lj3sib.
set output "| lp -dlj3sia" - Prints to the specified printer. lj3sia is in Wright 339 as well.
set output "| lp -n 3" - Prints more than one copy (in this case, 3 copies). This can be combined with the -d option as well.

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