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From: lhoward@esunix.UUCP (Larry Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: "Print Screen" function on Apple IIe?
Message-ID: <595X@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 00:00:00 GMT
References: <2404@druhi.ATT.COM>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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in article <2404@druhi.ATT.COM>, stiles@druhi.ATT.COM (K. L. Stiles) says:
> Does anyone know a "trick" or any way to print (on ImageWriter)
> whatever is on the screen of an Apple IIe?  A friend of mine has
> an Apple and relies on me for "technical advice", so I'd
> appreciate any advice you Apple II experts could pass along.

The only way I know of to do quick and immediate screen dumps is by the
use of a card called "The Fingerprint +".  This card is a serial and
parallel printer card (at the same time!) although only one type of
cable comes with the card when you buy it.  It is manufactured by
Thirdware Products Inc. based out of Florida and costs about $75
depending on who you buy it from.  There have been numerous
reviews of this card in magazines such as Computist.  

The card does more than just do screen dump, but it does those extreamly
well!  It operates by the pressing of a small, user placeable switch
pad.  This causes the card to send an NMI to the CPU and the card takes
over totally.  A menu pops up giving you your choices.  My favorites are
paging through the video memory and picking out what I want to print,
rotating the picture 90 degrees, and enlarging it.  For those of us
lucky enough to have a color printer, there is an option for color
screen dumps as well.  The inverse video option sometimes makes the
color picture turn out much better than the straight screen dump.  You
may also save the screen to a disk for later printing/editing if so
desired.  The card also has a typewriter function that allows you to
type directly to the printer, maybe to give a title for the screen dump?
The picture produced is about 40x30 characters with the enlarged picture
being about 90x70 (i.e. you have to rotate it to fit it on a normal
8.5"x11" piece of paper).  You may also have the picture tabed to a
specific part of the paper if more than one picture per page is desired,
or maybe for a report or something! 

All I can say is that I have enjoyed using mine for about 1.5 years now,
and it's been worth every penny.  I use both ports for screen dumps and
have not had a moments trouble doing it.  There is even a money back
guarantee for the more cautious ones.
-- 
Larry Howard 
{ihnp4,seismo}!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!esunix!lhoward
One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns, and meeting new people.
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