2007-01-26 03:23:07 · 7 answers · asked by Motherof2 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Printers
Pfo is right. You can also paste into many programs like Word or Wordpad.
I think, although I'm not sure, that it really did mean to actually print the screen at one time. The keyboard we use (US anyway) is very old, and back in the days before Windows when people used console-type operating systems like DOS, the button did work as you would expect.
One more tip: Just pressing Print Screen get the whole desktop. If you hold down the Alt key when you press it, you only get the active window.
2007-01-26 03:31:19 · answer #1 · answered by scott 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two windows ways:
1. Get a third party app which captures the clipboard. There are a lot of free ones and some that cost little.
2. When you press PrtScr the content of the screen is in the clipboard. Paste it into paintbrush or some other bitmap editor (I use photoshop) and print from that.
2007-01-26 03:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 'Print Screen' doesn't really print the screen. It should be called 'Screen Capture' or 'Screenshot'.
What it does, is that it takes a 'picture' of your screen and then you can use it with image programs, like 'Paint'.
Try this...
Press the 'Print Screen' button and then open up the 'Paint' program that comes with Windows. When Paint is open, select 'Edit' from the top toolbar and then select 'Paste'. The picture of your screen is now an image.
2007-01-26 03:31:50 · answer #3 · answered by Yuchniuk Website Design 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Print Screen is misleading. What it does is it takes a screen shot of windows and saves it to the clipboard. Try pressing print screen, then opening paint and hitting ctrl+v. It's not meant for printing from the printer, use ctrl+p to print in most programs.
2007-01-26 03:28:16 · answer #4 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont comprehend roughly dell yet on my computing device it says print reveal in a splash field surrounding the letters interior the top spectacular corner to press the buttons with packing boxes around them on the keys you I ought to press this button with 'fn' in a splash field on a button interior the decrease left hand corner dont experience stupid it took me an prolonged time to discern that out lol
2016-11-27 20:02:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't print automatically, you have to pres it, and then paste the screencap to a photo application, even something as simple as Paint will work...then print from there.
2007-01-26 03:32:39 · answer #6 · answered by *~*~* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't!
2007-01-26 03:31:16 · answer #7 · answered by F.A.Q. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋