Print Screen and Screen Captures
The keyboard-driven “print screen” function is set by the OS on contemporary systems, and offers multiple ways to capture the screen. There are also applications that will perform a screen capture, allow for a level of editing and annotation, and subsequent output to multiple targets (clipboard, file, email, etc.). Current OSes include at least a basic program like this.
| Ouput to Printer |
Printer |
Print Screen |
N/A |
N/A |
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| Capture Screen |
Clipboard |
N/A |
Print Screen |
Control-Shift-Command-3 |
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| Capture Window |
Clipboard |
N/A |
Alt-Print Screen Current Window |
Control-Shift-Command-4, then Space, then select the window |
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| Capture Portion of Screen |
Clipboard |
N/A |
N/A |
Control-Shift-Command-4, then select portion of screen |
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| Capture Screen |
File |
N/A |
Windows-Print Screen |
Shift-Command-3 |
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| Capture Window |
File |
N/A |
N/A |
Shift-Command-4, then Space, then select the window |
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| Capture Portion of Screen |
File |
N/A |
N/A |
Shift-Command-4, then select portion of screen |
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Where to Find Screenshot Files
| Microsoft Windows |
User Directory\Pictures\Screenshots |
| MacOS |
~/Desktop |
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Created by I. Charles Barilleaux
Last Update: 2021-04-02