How to Print a Banner Screen

from an ICA Client connection

to your printer on a Windows PC.

 

You may have discovered or been shown in training that you can print the current screen by clicking on the printer button  in the banner system.

 

Sometimes this may not work as you would like or it may be quite slow.

 

A better method is to “grab” the current banner window and paste it into Word or some other program (I like WordPad in Windows 95/98/NT) and then print it just as you would  normally from that program.

 

Follow these steps:

 

 

1. Start Banner and select the screen and information that you want printed.

 

2. Click on the Title Bar for UNE Banner Production System (The Blue Bar with that label). This becomes the active window.

 

 

 

3. Hold the Alt key down and then press the PrtSc key (usually located in the top right cluster of keys). This ‘grabs’ the active window and puts it the clipboard. You will not be able to see anything happen until you paste it somewhere.

 

4. Open Word or your preferred program and then use Edit | Paste or Ctrl + V to paste it in to the document.

 

Suggestion… try pasting the clipboard into MS Paint which comes with Windows 95/98/NT  (Start | Programs | Accessories | Paint). From here you can cut just the piece of information you want and paste it into the final document. This can significantly reduce the size of the document and the time that it takes to print.

 

5. You can repeatedly cut and paste different Banner windows into the same Word document, rearrange them and then print the document to your own printer as you would any other document.

 

Remember: You probably don’t have to save the Document once you have printed it… these can be quite large. This is also true if you have used Paint… you don’t need to save the picture.

 

 

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