Print Screen

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:46:03 -0700, Paintwagon
<Paintwagon RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to utilize the "print screen" key without additional
> software??


Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the screen.
But in all versions of Windows, this works differently, and the name
of the key is now an anachronism.

To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire screen, or
press alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active window. Either
one captures the image to the Windows clipboard. Once it's in the
clipboard you can paste (Ctrl-V) it into any application that supports
graphics (Windows Paint, other graphics programs, even your favorite
word processor). You can edit or add to the image as you wish, then
print it.

This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing it
is an improvement over the original DOS method of just printing it.
But if you'd like that old facility back, there are several
third-party freeware/shareware programs that can do this, such as
PrintKey2000 at
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Do you understand what the Print Scrn button does?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Paintwagon wrote:
> Is there any way to utilize the "print screen" key without additional
> software?? I have a Dell E310 with a Dell 962 All in one printer. Any info
> would help...

Continuing PA Bear's question and statement - If you don't here's help
http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/print-screen/ The printscreen key
will only put the data into the clipboard. It needs some program to get it
to the printer.

And to make it save the window or part of a window there is a small good
FREE program that will take the print screen key and save the selected
option to a file that can be used in any other application that will take a
graphic file. I use ScreenHunter 5 free from
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm

Download, install and then set the particulars of the program to use the
PrintScn key as its trigger and the filename and location where you want the
file.


"PA Bear" <PABearMVP.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Do you understand what the Print Scrn button does?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
>
> Paintwagon wrote:
>> Is there any way to utilize the "print screen" key without additional
>> software?? I have a Dell E310 with a Dell 962 All in one printer. Any
>> info
>> would help...
>

Thanks for all the suggestions....
--
Paintwagon


"LVTravel" wrote:

> Continuing PA Bear's question and statement - If you don't here's help
> http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/print-screen/ The printscreen key
> will only put the data into the clipboard. It needs some program to get it
> to the printer.
>
> And to make it save the window or part of a window there is a small good
> FREE program that will take the print screen key and save the selected
> option to a file that can be used in any other application that will take a
> graphic file. I use ScreenHunter 5 free from
> http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm
>
> Download, install and then set the particulars of the program to use the
> PrintScn key as its trigger and the filename and location where you want the
> file.
>
>
> "PA Bear" <PABearMVP.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23grJ3TQvHHA.3444@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > Do you understand what the Print Scrn button does?
> > --
> > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> > MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> > AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
> >
> > Paintwagon wrote:
> >> Is there any way to utilize the "print screen" key without additional
> >> software?? I have a Dell E310 with a Dell 962 All in one printer. Any
> >> info
> >> would help...
> >
>
>
>

"Paintwagon" <Paintwagon.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:030841E1-EBFC-4D0C-BD3A-CA1E45F46D8F@microsoft.com...
> Is there any way to utilize the "print screen" key without additional
> software?? I have a Dell E310 with a Dell 962 All in one printer. Any info
> would help...
> --
> Paintwagon

Sure, it's called WordPad.

Press the PrintScreen key, open Wordpad, choose Edit, Paste. Send the
document to the printer.

If you want only the foremost window (there are some limits) instead of the
entire desktop, press alt+printscreen.

With this, you can put screen clips in most word processors.

HTH
-pk

=?Utf-8?B?UGFpbnR3YWdvbg==?= wrote:
>
> Is there any way to utilize the "print screen" key without additional
> software?? I have a Dell E310 with a Dell 962 All in one printer. Any info
> would help...

Not really, all you need is already in XP.

--
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
>
> Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the screen.
> But in all versions of Windows, this works differently, and the name
> of the key is now an anachronism.

True, that's why apps like these exist:

http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm
DESKTOP
Screen Capture

On 3 Jul 2007 00:52:02 -0500, Plato <|@|.|> wrote:

> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> >
> > Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the screen.
> > But in all versions of Windows, this works differently, and the name
> > of the key is now an anachronism.
>
> True, that's why apps like these exist:
>
> http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm
> DESKTOP
> Screen Capture



As I said, in the part of my message you snipped, "But if you'd like
that old facility back, there are several third-party
freeware/shareware programs that can do this, such as PrintKey2000 at
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm"

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Paintwagon wrote:
> Is there any way to utilize the "print screen" key without additional
> software?? I have a Dell E310 with a Dell 962 All in one printer. Any
> info would help...

Pressing the Print Screen button copies the whole screen to the clipboard,
you then have to paste the contents an application and then print from
there. Alt-Print Screen copies the active window only.