I believe you need to hold down the "plot" button and then turn the power
on, in order for it to plot a self test image. Regards - Mike
Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell NJ, 07731
(732) 901-9193
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: Latest aquisition: HP 7596A plotter
The 3274 was gone from the Uni surplus this morning, but the HP 7596A
plotter was still there (going on two months). I asked what they could
do on the $100 price... $50 was their initial offer, then $25 after
the manager saw me fiddling with it to make it do *something* (some
yutz misloaded the pens and it was unhappy).
So now I have an E-sized pen plotter. It has serial and HPIB interfaces
and I'm looking for a quick-start reference guide. I've been googling
all morning and haven't found anything overtly helpful. I know that
I can get paper and pens from Western Numeric Controls, but manuals
are scarce as hen's teeth.
One quick question... how to I get a demo plot? I see the menu on
the internal LCD, but no combination of buttons seems to initiate
a plot. Reset is another option and it asks me to confirm, but,
again, I can't figure out what to press to confirm.
There's buttons around the LCD for menu navigation, a "dot" button,
eight pen buttons and some cursor-style direction buttons.
Thanks for any tips from a novice to large-format plotters (all my
experience has been with A/B-sized HP pen plotters).
-ethan
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