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in article <1991May8.193458.20477@leland.Stanford.EDU>, elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman) says:
> 
> In article <1991May8.142511.24278@ccad.uiowa.edu> gosula@ccad.uiowa.edu (Saili Gosula-Markham) writes:
>>
>>I have not been able to do PrintScreens from Windows.  Does anyone 
>>out there have the same problem?  It just acts like nothing is 
>>happenning.  If you can print can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>I can print from Word with no problem.
>>
>>Saili
> 
> From what it sounds like you are trying to print the screen using the
> "Print Screen" button.
> Windows actually captures any output from the "PrintScreen" button
> into the clipboard.  By simply pressing PrintScreen, you don't get
> output to the printer, but instead a bitmapped image (B&W, apparently,
> from just checking -- is this normal?) that you can paste into any
> Windows app, such as WFW, or Paintbrush.
> 
> To print the screen, then, get an image in the clipboard, and paste it
> into a document.
> 
> BTW, to see the contents of the clipboard, simply double-click on the
> "clipboard" icon in the Main folder of Program Manager (unles, of
> course, you have moved it. :-)
> 
> Later,
> Adam Elman
> elmanad@leland.stanford.edu

Actually the image is in full color in the clipboard.  If you import it into
a document (W4W, Write,...) it is converted to monochrome.  I am not sure if
it is the application doing the conversion but I suspect it is.

Greg