Basis Printscreen question---ha

[Kevin]

Exactly how does the printscreen work in XP. I dont want
to cut and paste as these users do not have word notepad
etc... just an application that is running and they want
to printscreen right to the printer

[Jim Eshelman]

Kevin wrote:
> Exactly how does the printscreen work in XP. I dont want
> to cut and paste as these users do not have word notepad
> etc... just an application that is running and they want
> to printscreen right to the printer

Copy and paste is how it works. Press PrintScrn, it copies the whole screen
to the clipboard. Press Alt+PrintScreen, it pastes the active window
contents only.

You don't need Word, etc. Just paste into Paint. There is no provision to
printscreen right to the printer.

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[Rob Schneider]

Kevin wrote:

> Exactly how does the printscreen work in XP. I dont want
> to cut and paste as these users do not have word notepad
> etc... just an application that is running and they want
> to printscreen right to the printer


Print-screen right to the printer stoppped functioning like that in DOS.
No versions of Windows (including 1.0 in mid-1980's) did this.
PrntScn and Alt-Print screen copies to clipboard.

If you must have this, I'm sure that you can either a) find a program by
by referral here, or by cleaver searching on Google, or b) get someone
to write a program to do this (in C, Visual Basic, or something else
which provides access to the Windows API). I shoudn't be hard to do,
but requires skills/knowledge.