Printing from the Command Line
The print command enables you to send the figure directly to a printer or export a figure to a variety of standard graphic file formats. In addition, you can specify options to modify the default behavior.
This section discusses:
When you print from the command line, the output is controlled by print command options, settings specified in the Page Setup dialog box, and the values of figure properties. Print command arguments override Page Setup dialog settings, which in turn, override the default print command specified in printopt.
The Page Setup dialog actually sets figure properties, therefore property values specified on the command line after you close the dialog box take precedent over dialog box settings.
When to Use the Print Command
On MS-Windows platforms, where you can use the clipboard to copy and paste, the print command is useful if you need to:
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