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wje:
This is driving me crazy. I have an HP 53310A (actually, several of them), one of the most underrated time interval / freq measurement instruments ever. I have a Prologix GPIB ethernet adapter. I'm desperately trying to get a print capture. The device supported HP graphics printers, such as the 2225 Thinkjet. Ok, I expected KE5FX's 7470 emulator to work. Nope. The HP wants a graphics printer. Apparently. All of the 'print capture' progs that will work with the Prologix that I've found, don't. Work, that is. Either too old or some other issue. I can't even get the Prologix via DPIB Emulator (also KE5FX) to talk properly to the 53310A. Connects, I can address it, goes into remote mode. But, every command fails with a 'header error'.
Anyone have any suggestions? I really need to do a print capture!
Thanks, Bill

Stray Electron:
    You could use an HP HP-IB plotter like this one  https://www.ebay.com/itm/284922745725?hash=item4256b8137d:g:cm8AAOSwQl1i7VDT&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8PItWoUnHjuaJzm6gZVDO04Tg%2FBFI3Ajm%2FF7CV%2FCVgw4GZIvLDNNILXPc4viVcsw98LLmkVM9TJSxA2wLD8dnL04WwlJqsad6i7YswVkWPs4akMXavDs%2FTqIOe2p2EttdONzeT%2BfBD699geG9gOj5Mw0UuIlGtfY41ebMNa5FlD%2BloBC92A%2BAEy4LRJuOZja7kgudMiD34SB9IHUMexiSpeISUW4l7EBePhnvNWCJp4o5ImDV2sdXZKf9jZkteDI7xbr066IjrxAwGUOeREiMQk2JKWSJXRa3K1yHKgsMSNeIc1I%2FSaA%2FwdpWh%2FBsPINCw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR962tInHYg

   I looked but I didn't see any HP-IB printers on Fleabay.  Those used to be readily available! 

Stray Electron:
    This might work for you https://www.ebay.com/itm/164644674909?hash=item2655965d5d:g:4uoAAOSwOGtgAIBZ&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4Cv7HqBT7QCoQE9IKZEoiiesdG5fd26K0ePMU6MjDPncA9fi20503ySMYMR1DBsJyWtNDwT8xiii%2FgT%2BYsLZfnHiNaBXeJ1KX%2Br5lbqMdaDmeWmsMdxL6jEgilWDjmCw3MGvOCulrcG2RMrWuTKnaYyizY1VJaWvf6w0vKQk0NNhW%2Fn7SXV7FdhrOJiZF3gvby9qSXpbvLh%2FmnTdi8hu9z2wbsBT3OFGGc%2BzNniJDfV2JKUOGGmLe%2FA3L%2FhuWUfVQKtpRt9QM8pCtqV66mxEKGkSAina4jRcITrYsUwpG3TH%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9T9n4rHYg

     I have a G model and I like it. It's one of my favorite printers for the old HP systems since it uses thermal paper and not ink it's always ready to go.  I didn't think that the A models handled graphics but the front page of the manual says that they do. 

wkb:
As for screencapture software, Damien's tool written in Python should work for your HP

https://damien.douxchamps.net/elec/gpib-screenshot/

And if not, Damien is very helpful, we spent quite some time together on polishing his script for use with my Hp8595E spectrum analyser.

Wilko

artag:
Damien's tool looks very nice and supports a good range on instruments. But it uses PyVisa and I don't think there is Visa support for Prologix. Please correct me if that's wrong.

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