Let’s clear this up immediately. In 1981, on the original IBM PC, yes—pressing Print Screen would literally send the contents of your text-based screen to a dot-matrix printer. It was the 80s. We printed everything.
P.S. Mac users, I know you’re feeling left out. You have Cmd+Shift+4 . It’s cute. But you don’t have a dedicated button with the word "SCREEN" on it. So there. print screen button
It’s been sitting there, lonely and misunderstood, since 1981. Let’s fix that. Let’s clear this up immediately