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Discover Ludwig"print screen" is not a correct phrase to use in written English.
Instead, you might use the phrase "screenshot" when describing a picture taken of an onscreen computer display. For example, "I took a screenshot of the error message to include with my customer service complaint."
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print screen
noun
A keyboard key; typically, the same key shares the functions of Print Screen and System Request (SysRq). Print Screen prints the screen in some command line systems such as MS-DOS and makes a screenshot in some graphical interface systems such as Windows.
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There's no Forward Delete key, Fn key, menu key, Print Screen key or Windows key (duh).
The print screen provides suggestions about binding a printed journal up to 50 pages long.
Pressing the Alt key and the Print Screen key takes a shot of the active window on the screen.
Older versions of Word have it in the Print menu — look in the lower right corner of the print screen for a button labeled "PDF".
To capture a shot of the screen without saving it as a file to your drive, press just the Print Screen button.
In Windows 8, nothing happens when I press the Print Screen button — no Screenshots folder shows up in the Pictures library.
Print screen says hello, at least until someone finds a nice exploit.
That's a print screen (click to embiggen) from about ten minutes ago up there.
Slower web speeds and larger print screen densities were observed to result in film non-uniformity.
The films were printed with stylus engraved cliché with print screen density of 110 line cm−1, which affords approximately 10 nL mm−2 of ink loading.
Hold the Print Screen key.
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