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- Mikko Laanti
- Mikko Laanti Oy
- Tervakukkatie 26 C 22
- 90580 SF-Oulu
- Finland
- Tel. 358-81-391057
- INTERNET: tkop-ml\finou.oulu.fi
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- Licensing and Duplication Information
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- Duplication Restrictions
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- Print Screen is a shareware product. It may be freely copied and dis-
- tributed for evaluation as long as four basic rules are followed.
- These rules are:
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- 1) The program and this documentation may not be
- modified in any way.
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- 2) A copy of this documentation is provided with
- the program.
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- 3) No charge, other than a media and handling
- charge, (not to exceed $5.00) is made.
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- 4) Users of the program are encouraged to purchase
- a license for its use.
-
- If a copy of this program is retained, an obligation to purchase a li-
- cense for its use is incurred. A license for use of this program costs
- only $25.00.
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- Print Screen Utility
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- Most of display hardcopy programs can handle only one adapter type
- (e.g. EGA). The device independency of Windows provided means to deve-
- lop this universal hardcopy program. You can easily use this program
- if You have Windows 2.0 or higher and printer, which supports graphics.
- Program has also hardware dependent support for 9-pin matrix printers
- (Epson, IBM) and most of common display adapter types. In commercial
- version also HP Laserjet has direct hardware support.
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- Windows device
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- The Windows dependent facilities supports only monochrome displays
- (allthough some color display drivers may have mono capabilities also).
- You can see the size of Your display and printer in pixels. You have
- to give the size and location of the image that will be printed. Those
- values determines if the display image have to be scaled and where on
- the paper image will be printed. You may be informed of two possible
- error conditions. Some part of the printer image may lie outside the
- paper surface. If X-coordinate is outside of the paper, the result of
- printing is undetermined (depends of Your printer and it's driver).
- If Y-coordinate is outside of the paper You may have to feed new page
- into Your printer. If the printed image is not where it is supposed to
- be, You can check the default settings via Control Panel CONTROL.EXE.
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- The windows device printing is recommended because of its continuous
- scaling facility. Allthough the program has fascinating scaling prop-
- erties some low resolution printer modes will compose low quality
- pictures, if You select desired size not to be a multiply of display
- size. No such problems exists with high resolution printers.
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- Hardware dependent print
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- Hardware dependent printing support covers all selectable adapters
- (also color):
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- CGA 640 * 200
- EGA 640 * 350 (color plane 0)
- MGA 720 * 348 (plane 0, at B000:0000)
- ATT 640 * 400 (Olivetti, ATT, Gas Plasma etc)
- WY 1280 * 800 (Wyse-700, Amdek 1280)
- MCGA 640 * 480
- VGA 640 * 480 (color plane 0)
- VGA 800 * 600 (color plane 0)
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- These will also be supported in next version:
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- EGA multiplane (gray scale on laser)
- VGA multiplane (gray scale on laser)
- VGA 1024 * 768 (gray scale on laser)
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- This might be supported if I manage to get specs for it:
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- VIKING monochrome 1600 * 1200
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- Program does not try to find out the type of Your adapter. You ha-
- ve to select it Yourself. In next version You can define settings
- in WIN.INI (windows initialization file).
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- Output device can be selected from among DOS devices. All defined
- devices will be enabled. Default name for display image file is
- PRTSC.PRN. File will written into same directory where You started
- the PRTSC.EXE program. Allthough You can give explicit path names
- for files, it is not recommended to use diskette drives for target
- file devices: they can be extremely slow.
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- Filter EOF option filters End Of File characters from print stream.
- ASCII code 26 (EOF-character) will be changed to ASCII code 24. It
- is highly useful to choose this option if You will print the image
- into file (and print it later). You will "lose" some pixels, how-
- ever you can print the file under common DOS prompt by TYPEing the
- file on printer:
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- TYPE PRTSC.PRN > PRN
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- Do not use PRINT command on filed images. PRINT will expand tabu-
- lar characters into space characters and the printed image will be
- corrupted.
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- Two printers are supported:
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- 9-pin Epson matrix printer
- 9-pin IBM matrix printer
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- Two other printers are supported in commercial version:
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- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
- Hewlett-Packard DeskJet
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- Toshiba 351 printer support will be in next version.
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- Some hints:
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- If You have color adapter, carefully select the colors (via Control
- Panel) so, that You get nice contrasts on printed image: those can
- be found only by method of trial and error.
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- If You have VGA adapter, there are two possibilities to use program:
- 1. Set screen colors so that You get desired results with hardware.
- 2. Install Windows as like Your adapter were a MCGA one.
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- To order commercial copy send International Money Order of value
- $25 USD to:
-
- Mikko Laanti
- Mikko Laanti Oy
- Tervakukkatie 26 C 22
- 90580 SF-Oulu
- Finland
-
- Commercial copy bypass the copyright window. Please, specify desired
- format 360 KB 5.25 or 720 KB 3.5 diskette. Program will be sent to
- You via Air Mail after I have received payment.