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There's no guarantee the digital content your business relies on will come with a Print function. Fortunately, your PC's 'Print Screen' button offers a way to capture and print such content -- if your monitor can display it, that is. Printing with this button normally requires manually pasting captured content into an imaging or word processing program. However, some programs enable you to bypass this step and send screen captures directly to a printer. These utilities work by monitoring the Windows clipboard for image content sent there by the 'Print Screen' button. Once they detect such content, they send it to the printer or another device you specify.
Gadwin
Step 1
Read review & download any of these top free Screen Capture software for Windows 10/8/7 PC. These feature-rich screenshot SnagIt alternative tools will let you take out screenshots easily. The Gadwin Print Screen allows you to quickly transfer the captured image by e-mail, and also allows you to copy a file or clipboard. It also supports keyboard shortcuts that will help make screenshots, and which is quite essential to automatically print the finished image. Dec 15, 2016 Press the Windows key (on bottom left of key board) and Print Screen Key (on top right of keyboard) at the same time. Go to This PC (press Windows + E keys) Pictures Screenshots to view the captured screenshot.
How To Print Screen Windows 10
Back in the days of DOS, the PrtScn 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. The key does.not. print the screen. PrtScrn captures the whole screen, and Alt-PrtScrn captures the active window. Either one captures the image to the Windows clipboard. Install and run Gadwin PrintScreen (see link in Resources). The program minimizes itself and moves to the system tray. Arrange application windows such that the content you want to print appears on the screen. A screenshot is a saved image of everything on a computer screen is shown. Gadwin PrintScreen is a program that helps you to quickly and easily create a screenshot in order to save or to print. By default, this is a screenshot of the program opened with the printscreen key but it is also possible to make a combination set.
Install and run Gadwin PrintScreen (see link in Resources). The program minimizes itself and moves to the system tray. Arrange application windows such that the content you want to print appears on the screen. For example, if you want to print the content your Web browser is currently displaying, click the 'Maximize' button on the browser's application window.
Step 2
Turn on your printer, and then press the 'Print Screen' keyboard key, which may appear as 'Prt Sc' or similar wording. Gadwin's user interface appears and displays a snapshot of what your monitor was displaying when you pressed this keyboard key.
Step 3
Click the 'Change Destination' button, and then check the 'To Printer' check box in the dialog box that appears. Click the dialog box's 'OK' button, then click the main screen's 'Continue Output' button. Gadwin prints the captured screen image to your printer.
Step 1
Install and run PrtScr (see link in Resources), then arrange windows such that your monitor displays the content you want to print.
Step 2
Press and hold 'Alt' if you want to print only the currently selected window. Press 'Print Screen,' then click the left mouse button anywhere on the screen. The PrtScr application window appears, along with the screen content the program captured.
Step 3
Click the 'Print' button on the application window to open the 'Print Settings' dialog box. Click this dialog box's 'Print' button to print the screen capture to your default printer.
Step 1
Install and run Cropper (see link in Resources). Right-click the program's application window, and then click 'Output.' Click the 'Printer' item to specify the printer as the output device.
Step 2
Right-click the application window again, and then click 'Hide' to move the program to the system tray. Arrange other program windows so they display what you want to print.
Step 3
Press 'Print Screen' to capture a full screen, or 'Alt-Print Screen' to capture the active window. Your printer's dialog box appears. Click 'Print' to print the captured screen or window.
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Back in the days of DOS, the PrtScn 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. The key does *not* print the screen. PrtScrn captures the whole screen, and Alt-PrtScrn captures 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