Printing Your Graphics

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Printing your graphics requires two things: choosing and setting up the type of printer to use, and printing.

note	The first time you print from a specific VDA Tool, you must set up the printer defaults.

1. Select File=>Print Setup from the menu bar. The Printer Setup dialog box appears.

2. Choose the type of printer that you want to use.

3. If you wish to change printer options, click the Options button. This brings up the Print Options dialog box. Make your selections and click OK.

4. In the Printer Setup dialog box, click the Print button.

5. Click OK.

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After you set up the printer options once during a VDA Tool session, you can simply select File=>Print to print graphics.

If you try to print a contour-filled plot or a full-color image to a black and white PostScript printer, you can get undesireable results. This is because of inherent limitations caused by trying to map a color plot to a black and white printing device.

Printing from WzTable can be time consuming because tables are printed as drawn graphics.