print screen

[Bob Brannon]

Hello,

I am using XP Home SP2. Shouldn't one be able to use the "print screen" key
to print the screen to the printer in one simple step? I have used to paste
an image into Paint. But how does one print the screen to the printer?

Regards,
Bob Brannon

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Nope. Not from within Windows.

The Print Screen key, is often abreviated as Print Scrn.

The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of your
computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.

Alt + Print Scrn

[[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the entire
screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to target that
specific window that you have open and nothing else. No more cropping those
screenshots to grab the content you were after!]]

You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other program
that will handle images.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Ken Blake]

In

I am using XP Home SP2. Shouldn't one be able to use the
"print
screen" key to print the screen to the printer in one simple
step? I
have used to paste an image into Paint. But how does one print
the
screen to the printer?

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
(http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm).

 

[Bob Brannon]

I do have PrintKey 2000, just thought one should be able to do it within
Windows too. Thank you.

In

I am using XP Home SP2. Shouldn't one be able to use the
"print
screen" key to print the screen to the printer in one simple
step? I
have used to paste an image into Paint. But how does one print
the
screen to the printer?

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
(http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm).

 

[Bob Brannon]

That's the way I've been doing it just thought it might be easier in some
situations to just print to the printer. Thanks.


Nope. Not from within Windows.

The Print Screen key, is often abreviated as Print Scrn.

The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of your
computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.

Alt + Print Scrn

[[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the entire
screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to target that
specific window that you have open and nothing else. No more cropping those
screenshots to grab the content you were after!]]

You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other program
that will handle images.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Stan Brown]

[cc'd to previous poster; follow-ups in newsgroup suggested]

in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I am using XP Home SP2. Shouldn't one be able to use the "print screen" key
to print the screen to the printer in one simple step?

They tried it but it made too much sense.

So now the "Print Screen" or "PrtSc" key captures the screen to the
clipboard. You can then paste it into your favorite image editor or
word processor and print it.

Alt-PrtSc captures only the current window, by the way.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Just one of a thousand anomalies ;-)

 

[deango]

Heh Bob. Get this free utility called Yankee Clipper. You will never use 'print screen' again. It will hold 200 of anything including photos without overwriting it and sits in your tray. Print or edit from it. http://www.yankee-clipper.net/ Regards. deango

 

[Ken Blake]

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I do have PrintKey 2000, just thought one should be able to do
it
within Windows too. Thank you.

You're welcome. Glad to help.