Print Screen Key Should Actually... Print The Screen
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 12/22/2015 1:00:00 AM
Why doesn't the Print Screen key print the screen?
In the early days of computing, if you wanted to print whatever was on your screen, all you had to do was hit the handy "Print Screen" key. The cool thing about it was that you did't need any training to figure out how.
The ability to print the screen was built-in. You didn't need any software. All you had to do was turn on your printer, and hit the print screen. That's it.
Then Windows came along, and Microsoft was too lazy to include a program that could print the screen, the button became pretty useless. Nearly 30 years later, Microsoft still doesn't include a simple feature to use the Print Screen key to print the screen.
Tech savvy users know that if you hit the Print Screen key, it quietly puts a copy of your screen on the Clipboard, so you can paste it into a program that can print.
Even if you're one of the few people who know that the Print Screen button copies your screen onto the Clipboard, it's a real pain in the neck pasting it into another program just so you can print it.
Isn't it time Microsoft finally includes a built-in option to print the screen using another program?
When you hit it, a menu should ask you if you want to print the screen, save it to a file or the clipboard.
What's so difficult about that? With all the useless junk Microsoft throws into each new version of Windows, they can easily make this key useful again.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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