how print screen w/o pasting into Word?

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Thanks for any help.
I would like to print the screen without having to paste into Word or some
application and printing from there. Back in the old days (I'm talking around
'84), I think I remember in MS-DOS being able to print-screen without pasting
into Word. Of course, I don't think there was paste, maybe not even Word in
those days.
When I paste into Word, I think it shrinks it a bit. I did a help from
Windows, and there is a program called graphics (from the run command line),
but I couldn't get it to work. Any help appreciated.
Thanks again.
 
Ian said:
Thanks for any help.
I would like to print the screen without having to paste into Word or some
application and printing from there. Back in the old days (I'm talking around
'84), I think I remember in MS-DOS being able to print-screen without pasting
into Word. Of course, I don't think there was paste, maybe not even Word in
those days.
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Printing a text screen to a printer that supports text (as virtually every
printer going did, back then) is several orders of magnitude simpler than
printing from graphics mode to a printer that has no generally accepted means of
accepting graphics without using a printer driver.
When I paste into Word, I think it shrinks it a bit.
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That is a matter of opinion; A 1024x768 image, when printed at full printer
resolution, will be something the size of a postage stamp given current printer
resolutions. All images are scaled, and word will resize the image to fit the
page. Word, as with OpenOffice, and virtually every other package out there
defaults (annoyingly for me) to a margin that is just way too big to make
optimum use of the page for such purposes. It is not a great way to print
images, but I do not seem to be able to persuade the users around here of that,
and they keep sending me ZIP files containing huge word files, with embedded
JPEG's, despite the fact that (A) I don't have word, and (B) the compression
inherent in JPEG images makes the ZIP a second layer of armour I have to peel
back. Ugh.

Enough ranting. What you need is a little program like printkey. I found it on
some USA University support page, although I forget exactly where. It's about
box describes it as Freeware, by Alfred Bollinger, in Switzerland. It has a
home page at http://www.geocities.com/~gigaman/ however it seems to have gone
professional. A quick google search for 'Printkey Freeware' should turn up the
right thing. As with anything you download from the internet, it is up to you
to ensure that you are not downloading something nasty.
I did a help from
Windows, and there is a program called graphics (from the run command line),
but I couldn't get it to work. Any help appreciated.
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'Graphics' is not what you are looking for. It is from another age.
 
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