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From: rkn@apple.com (Hud Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacDFT and printing to a laser?
Message-ID: <13767@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 May 91 19:51:07 GMT
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In article <11515@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT 
Sara" Lee) writes:
> someone in my office is running MacDFT, apple's PC 3270 emulation program
> that allows her to run PROFS.  Anyways, the program has an option called,
> intuitively enough, PRINT SCREEN, but every time i look, it's greyed 
> out...
> 
> so the only way that i can tell this poor person how to print any memo
> that she gets is to copy the memo (a la cloverleaf-c) and then switch
> to ms word and paste the memo. Then print it from there.  ugh...there's
> GOT to be an easier way.
> 
> i KNOW that Apple, kind company that it is (yeah right) only let's screen
> dump (shift-command-4) work with Imagewriters. Could this be the same 
> reason
> why this particular Apple product isn't printing to the laser printer?

My MacDFT contact tells me: As described in the ReadMe that accompanied 
MacDFT, there was a Font/Printer Driver problem in the System.  Turn off 
backgound printing and the grayed out PRINT SCREEN will magically be an 
avilable option in the FILE menu.