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Goloh
17 yrs ago
In an earlier computer I had a free download that let me push the "PrtScrn" button and it immediately sent the screenshot to the printer, no hassle. Now, a new computer, and when I go to download.com I find lots of free programs for this, and they are easy to download (of course) but nothing happens when I push the button. Nor is there any little icon available to click along the taskbar at the bottom. I must be doing something wrong. These are downloading OK, I'm sure, but how to activate them? Is any one of them particularly good? Don't want anything fancy or special, just capture the image and print it without going to clipboard, etc. Thanks.
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Something does actually happen. When you press prtscrn the screenshot is sent to the clipboard, you just don't "see it". You can then paste the picture into many programs including email clients, word, powerpoint, paint, etc. Then you print from that program.
You can also take a shot of just the active window by pressing alt+prtscrn.
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Goloh
17 yrs ago
Thanks though as I mentioned, the earlier program bypassed the clipboard stage, which is not necessary. Since I wrote that message, and after downloading and removing a few of these freeware programs, I found one from Gladwin that almost does what I want: I press prtscrn and the full screen goes immediately to the printer and prints. (The view it prints comes out in a somewhat reduced size. I'm looking for something a little better but this is OK until I find it.) Thanks for reminding me that in fact these other programs did go to clipboard--I just wasn't looking there.
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"Thanks though as I mentioned, the earlier program bypassed the clipboard stage, which is not necessary. "
Sure, if all you want is printing. But I typically want to send screenshots in an email, so I don't want to bypass the clipboard. ;)
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Goloh
17 yrs ago
Fair enough. This Gladwin program seems to do both, so we're covered!
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4G
17 yrs ago
on a mac u press command+shift+4 but u can try on the windows
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