I have a HP cpu running ME. For some reason the print screen key will not print the screen. It is the upper half of a key with sysrq on the bottom. Help index says that it should print the screen but it does not. Any suggestions?

I believe the print screen is just supposed to print the screen to the clipboard so you can paste the image into a document or into a photo editing program. This is how it works on my system, it does not send the screen to the printer.

hello try shift,printscreen or alt and print screen or control and print screen. or right click on screen click print. or right click on screen click select all right click on screen click print. or hold down left mouse drag cursor over text to high light it .right click on high lighted area.click print. on edit in top left of screen click select all,click on file top left and click print. one of these should work.if not youve got to truble shoot printer next. in witch case we need some more info on computer read header at top of this forum.and type of printer ect. have a nice day

Noel Print Screen will send a 'picture' of your whole screen and anything open upon it to the Clipboard. Alt+Print Screen will send a 'picture' of the current open window to the Clipboard To view the 'picture' you've just taken, go to the Paint program and Edit\Paste. You can then save it as a .bmp .gif or .jpg into My Pictures and do what you will with it. Lesley

Noel Taylor, Les told you the correct skinny. The key simply puts your screen on the clipboard. If you wish to print it out, any program which allows you to print out anything will do the job. Simply save the clipboard (Ctrl + V will do the job) into that proggie and then print. HTH. Ed in Texas.