Print Screen doesn't work

[Roger B.]

I have an HP C5180 printer attached to PC and when I do an ALT+PS or CTRL+PS
or SHift+PS, nothing prints. If you go to control panel and look at printers,
the above printer is the default and is ready. What do I need to do to
activate this key to work on this printer?

 

[Big_Al]

I have an HP C5180 printer attached to PC and when I do an ALT+PS or CTRL+PS
or SHift+PS, nothing prints. If you go to control panel and look at printers,
the above printer is the default and is ready. What do I need to do to
activate this key to work on this printer?

I always thought the Printscreen key only copied the screen to the
clipboard. CTRL+P was what I thought printed.

If you want, try the printscreen key, then open an image editor like
mspaint.exe and then CTRL+V and paste the clipboard. If that pastes,
then you can print from paint.

 

[Alec S.]

Roger B. wrote (in

I have an HP C5180 printer attached to PC and when I do an ALT+PS or CTRL+PS
or SHift+PS, nothing prints. If you go to control panel and look at printers,
the above printer is the default and is ready. What do I need to do to
activate this key to work on this printer?

The Print Screen key does not acutally send anything to the printer in Windows.
What it does is to capture the contents of the screen to the clipboard as a
graphic. You can test this pasting the clipboard into Microsoft Paint (or some
other graphics program).

There may be some software or printer driver that will intercept the Print
Screen key and send the screen contents to the printer, but I have not heard of
one.

It may not be as quick or convenient, but you could try pasting the screen
contents into Paint and then using Paint’s print function.

 

[JD]

I have an HP C5180 printer attached to PC and when I do an ALT+PS or CTRL+PS
or SHift+PS, nothing prints. If you go to control panel and look at printers,
the above printer is the default and is ready. What do I need to do to
activate this key to work on this printer?

PS copies the entire screen to the clipboard. Alt+PS copies the open
window to the clipboard. Ctrl+PS did the same thing as PS.

Ctrl P is the keyboard shortcut for Print.

 

[Alec S.]

Don Schmidt wrote (in

If you install "PrintNow" it will do what you wish.

I figured there had to be at least one. I’m a little surprised however that
there aren’t more, newer ones; it’s not really a complex program to write and is
useful-ish.

Oh, and to the others who said that Ctrl+P is the printing hotkey: it depends on
the application, it is not universal like PrintScreen was in DOS. You can just
press it whenever, wherever—try it in an Explorer folder.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have an HP C5180 printer attached to PC and when I do an ALT+PS or CTRL+PS
or SHift+PS, nothing prints. If you go to control panel and look at printers,
the above printer is the default and is ready. What do I need to do to
activate this key to work on this printer?

There is nothing you can do, short of searching for and installing a
3rd party application, to have the <PrtScn> key send the display
directly to a printer.

By design, as it has always been with every version of Windows,
pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display, including the
Desktop Wallpaper, to the clipboard (iow, into RAM). Pressing
<ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to the clipboard. To view
the screen capture, open a graphics program, such as MS Paint, and press
<CTRL>+V. This will paste the contents of the clipboard (your
screenshot) into the open file, and allow you to view it or save it as a
file for later use.

How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print Screen Key
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;173884


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Bruce Chambers

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killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Mick Murphy]

Bruce, you can also paste it into Word.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Bruce, you can also paste it into Word.

Oh, I know. But I was limiting the options to built-in Windows tools,
as I've no way of knowing what additional applications any given poster
may or may not have.


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Mick Murphy]

Very true, Bruce.
I suppose you can paste into Wordpad, too.

Cheers.

 

[Alec S.]

Mick Murphy wrote (in

Very true, Bruce.
I suppose you can paste into Wordpad, too.

You can paste it into PhotoShop too, and Gimp, and PaintShopPro, and /any/ other
graphics app. The system captures the screen as a DIB, so you can paste it into
/anything that can cut and paste graphics/.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Very true, Bruce.
I suppose you can paste into Wordpad, too.

Cheers.

You know, I'd never thought to try that, but it does work, at least
with the version of WordPad that comes with Vista.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[F. Edwin Felty]

In Bruce Chambers <[email protected]> typed:
|| Mick Murphy wrote:
||| Very true, Bruce.
||| I suppose you can paste into Wordpad, too.
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||| Cheers.
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|| You know, I'd never thought to try that, but it does work, at least
|| with the version of WordPad that comes with Vista.
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|| Bruce Chambers
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|| Help us help you:
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|| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375
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|| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
|| safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin
||
|| Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand
|| Russell
||
|| The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
|| killed a great many philosophers.
|| ~ Denis Diderot

I knew I had seen this before, but couldn't find it right away...

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23220-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html

Haven't tried it myself, but it looks like it could be usefull.

Eddie in Loveland

"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons
afterwards."

 

[Kaja]

Hello, hope I can be of some help here. Ctrl+prtscreen simply takes a
screen shot of the screen. You need to do a second action to print it. You
can do this in a few ways. You can Open Paint then press Ctrl+c to copy
after you have done Ctrl+prtscreen. Then go to paint and do edit, paste.
Same for notepad. You can also go to File, save as and select .txt to save it
as a text file in Notepad and Word. Now that the first process has been
done. Print from whatever program you like. Let me know if this resolves
your issue.
Best regards,
Kaja Sanvean