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My print screen key( and alt+print screen) does not send the screen to my
printer. My printer works fine in all other situations, like printing from
Word, Notepad or anything else. And if I use print screen key and then paste
into a document, that works also. I just can't send the screen(or active
window) to the printer directly.
 
Thor said:
My print screen key( and alt+print screen) does not send the screen to my
printer. My printer works fine in all other situations, like printing from
Word, Notepad or anything else. And if I use print screen key and then paste
into a document, that works also. I just can't send the screen(or active
window) to the printer directly.
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XP doesn't work that way. You have to paste the print-screen output into
another app before you can print.
 
Thor said:
My print screen key( and alt+print screen) does not send the screen to my
printer. My printer works fine in all other situations, like printing from
Word, Notepad or anything else. And if I use print screen key and then paste
into a document, that works also. I just can't send the screen(or active
window) to the printer directly.
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That's exactly the way it's supposed to work. The <PrtScn> key hasn't
sent data directly to a printer for many years, now.

Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display to the
clipboard. Pressing <ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to
the clipboard (iow, into RAM). 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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Thor said:
My print screen key( and alt+print screen) does not send the
screen
to my printer. My printer works fine in all other situations,
like
printing from Word, Notepad or anything else. And if I use
print
screen key and then paste into a document, that works also. I
just
can't send the screen(or active window) to the printer
directly.
Click to expand...


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).
 
My print screen key( and alt+print screen) does not send the screen to my
printer.
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Neither does anyone else's, :-) unless they installed some special-
purpose software.

Your PrtSc key semds the entire screen to teh _clipboard_, whence
you can Edit>>Paste it into Word or your favorite graphics program.

Alt-PrtSc is the same, except it sends only the currently active
window.
 
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