Image Processing Toolbox

Printing Images

If you want to output a MATLAB image to use in another application (such as a word-processing program or graphics editor), use imwrite to create a file in the appropriate format. See Writing a Graphics Image for details.

If you want to print the contents of a MATLAB figure (including nonimage elements such as labels), use the MATLAB print command, or choose the Print option from the File menu of the figure window. Note that if you produce output in either of these ways, the results reflect the settings of various Handle Graphics properties. In some cases, you may need to change the settings of certain properties to get the results you want.

Here are some tips that may be helpful when you print images:

• Image colors print as shown on the screen. This means that images are not affected by the InvertHardcopy figure property.
• To ensure that printed images have the proper size and aspect ratio,
  you should set the figure's PaperPositionMode property to auto. When PaperPositionMode is set to auto, the width and height of the printed figure are determined by the figure's dimensions on the screen. By default, the value of PaperPositionMode is manual. If you want the default value of PaperPositionMode to be auto, you can add this line to your startup.m file.

• set(0,'DefaultFigurePaperPositionMode','auto')
  

For detailed information about printing with File/Print or the print command (and for information about Handle Graphics), see "Printing and Exporting Figures with MATLAB in the MATLAB Graphics documentation. For a complete list of options for the print command, enter help print at the MATLAB command line prompt or see print in the MATLAB Function Reference.

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