Saving Your Results

The best way to save your plot is as a PostScript file. To do this, use the command 
	set terminal postscript
or you may wish to qualify the command in various ways. For example, 
	set terminal postscript color 18
will produce color Postscript with an 18-point font for labels and other text.

By default, the PostScript ouptut will go to standard output -- your screen, normally -- which is probably not what you want. To save it in a file, use the command 

	set output "plotfile.ps"
The .ps extension is conventional, but not necessary. Once your graph is stored in a file, you can send it to the printer using the Unix lpr command, view it using the PostScript viewer gv, or embed it in some other document as desired.

Alternatively, you can send your plot directly to the printer by choosing 

	set output "|lpr"