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- GRAPHICS
- Enable graphics screen dump to IBM printers (CGA,EGA and VGA)
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- The GRAPHICS command will make it possible to print graphics displays
- to the printer when the SHIFT and PrtScn keys are pressed. To work
- properly, the printer must be a compatible printer type. The screen
- graphics display must be CGA,EGA, VGA or 8514/A.
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- COMMAND TYPE: External VERSION: 2.0 and up
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- USE: GRAPHICS [type] [profile][/r][/b][/lcd][/printbox:id]
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- printer type can be one of five types of printers.
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- COLOR1 - IBM Color Printer with a black ribbon.
- COLOR4 - IBM Color Printer with red, green, blue, and black ribbon.
- COLOR8 - IBM Color Printer with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ribbon.
- GRAPHICS - IBM personal graphics printer, Proprinter or Quietwriter
- COMPACT - IBM Compact printer. GRAPHICS - IBM Graphics Printer.
- THERMAL - IBM PC convertible thermal printer
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- profile (DOS 4.x only) is the name of a file containing information on
- all supported printers. If not supplied, graphics.pro is used.
- /r to print black and white on the printer as they are seen on the
- monitor. If you do not specify /R then black will be printed as white
- and white will be printed as black.
- /b prints the background in color. This switch is only valid on
- multi-color printers. The default is to not print the background
- color.
- /lcd will print using the LCD aspect ration rather than the CGA aspect ratio
- /printbox:id selects the print box size. "id" should be "ST" or "LCD"
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- In the high resolution modes the image will be printed on the printer
- sideways. The default printer type is GRAPHICS if none is supplied on
- the command line
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- NOTE: Graphic screen dumps will take longer than text screen dumps.
- Text screen dumps will still be possible after the GRAPHICS command is
- executed.
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