clairetoo
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:28 PM |
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Printing from a laptop
I have an old Dell Latitude laptop , which I have just installed the software for an Epson printer , to help me sort the mapping on my Mx5 .
I need to print the fuel and ignition tables - and thats where I'm stuck 
I can print pictures direct from the laptop , so I know the software is installed correctly , but I have no idea where to start on printing whats on
the screen - its something I have just not done before .
Any pointers ? There has to be something dead simple I am missing............
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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monkeyarms
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:37 PM |
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hit "print screen" button on keyboard (ALT+print screen will just capture the active window)
open MSpaint (or other similar program)
EDIT - PASTE as new image
Print!
[Edited on 15/10/12 by monkeyarms]
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me!
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:40 PM |
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Press 'print screen' (should be a button on your keyboard somewhere, or possibly Fn + another button on a laptop), open paint, edit paste,
print. Hope that helps
Edit- too slllllooooowwww....
[Edited on 15/10/12 by me!]
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clairetoo
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:40 PM |
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hitting `print screen' does nothing............there must be something else ?
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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blakep82
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:43 PM |
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press print screen, copies the whole screen (ctrl print screen copies the window you have selected ;-) )
you won't see anything happen at this point, but you still have to open mspaint, and paste the picture in there before you can print
[Edited on 15/10/12 by blakep82]
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clairetoo
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
press print screen, copies the whole screen (ctrl print screen copies the window you have selected ;-) )
you won't see anything happen at this point, but you still have to open mspaint, and paste the picture in there before you can print
[Edited on 15/10/12 by blakep82]
so.........how do I paste something I cant find , or even know if its been copied ? Nothing at all happens when I hit the print screen button
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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blakep82
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:58 PM |
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ok, so you've pressed print screen, now forget everything you'd expect to have seen happen, instead, open mspaint, click edit, and click
paste. job done
trust us 
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:58 PM |
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You won't see it do anything. Just believe it does lol
You can then open word or paint and press ctrl and p (paste) and it'll magically paste the screen grab
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monkeyarms
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:58 PM |
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you dont need to find anything, just got to edit- paste in MSPAINT and it should work.
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 05:58 PM |
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Might be worth pressing p and enter?
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clairetoo
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 06:02 PM |
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Got it 
Just need to work out how to get it to print whats actually on the screen , its coming up way too big to fit on the paper , and rotated 90
degrees..........but I'll get there
Thanks guys !
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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blakep82
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 06:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
Got it
Just need to work out how to get it to print whats actually on the screen , its coming up way too big to fit on the paper , and rotated 90
degrees..........but I'll get there
Thanks guys !
like i said, print screen will copy EVERYTHING on your scren, but if you've got, say, megasquirt tuning software open, make sure you've
got that particular window selected, press ctrl and print screen together, then follow the same process of pasting in paint, and you'll only get
the window for the tuning software in there
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don't write OT on a new thread title, you're creating the topic, everything you write is very much ON topic!
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Brett Jones
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 06:05 PM |
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Within MS Paint you can rotate it and re-size the image.
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Peteff
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| posted on 15/10/12 at 10:13 PM |
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If you are using xp download snipping tool and you can just draw a square round what
you want to print and save it to your desktop as .jpg then print it.
yours, Pete
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Slimy38
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| posted on 16/10/12 at 05:51 AM |
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For resizing and editing for printing, I quite like Irfanview. It gives lots of options to get an image down to the right size without too much
cropping or loss of resolution, both of which are a good idea when printing graphs.
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