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bonnijose
Nov 23, 2004
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Hello everyone!

This may be a stupid question but….

does procuding a printscreen from a 22" monitor creates a better image than from a 15" monitor?

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Mike Russell
Nov 23, 2004
Jose Bonifacio wrote:
Hello everyone!

This may be a stupid question but….

does procuding a printscreen from a 22" monitor creates a better image than from a 15" monitor?

Short answer: no.

Longer answer: simply swapping monitors does not change the image, but most people would tend to set a 22 inch monitor to a higher resolution than a 15 inch one. Statistically speaking, that would tend to make a screen capture from a larger monitor better than a capture from a smaller one. —

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Gadgets
Nov 23, 2004
As you go up in res from say 800×600 to 1600×1200 everything gets smaller on screen, so you wouldn’t gain anything unless you could make the window content scale up too. Chances are that PrntScrn isn’t the best option anyway… what are you trying to do? SnagIt is a good capture prog…

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tacitr
Nov 23, 2004
As you go up in res from say 800×600 to 1600×1200 everything gets smaller on screen, so you wouldn’t gain anything…

Yes, you do. You gain more pixels.

More pixels = better image.

When you do a screen capture, the larger the number of pixels, the better the image. If you put on a larger monitor and then increase the screen resolution, yes, you get a better image from screen captures.

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John McWilliams
Nov 23, 2004
Gadgets wrote:

As you go up in res from say 800×600 to 1600×1200 everything gets smaller on screen, so you wouldn’t gain anything unless you could make the window content scale up too. Chances are that PrntScrn isn’t the best option anyway… what are you trying to do? SnagIt is a good capture prog…

Uh, Jason, Mike had it right, even with a short but accurate explanation.

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nomail
Nov 23, 2004
Tacit wrote:

As you go up in res from say 800×600 to 1600×1200 everything gets smaller on screen, so you wouldn’t gain anything…

Yes, you do. You gain more pixels.

More pixels = better image.

When you do a screen capture, the larger the number of pixels, the better the image. If you put on a larger monitor and then increase the screen resolution, yes, you get a better image from screen captures.

It all depends what you want to capture. If you want to capture the whole screen, you are right. But if you want to capture a menu, a dialog box or a tool from Photoshop, you’ll see that those things usually have fixed pixel dimensions. If you set your screen at a higher resolution, menus, dialogs and tools become smaller, because their dimension in pixels remains the same. And if the dimension in pixels remains the same, a screenshot of just that tool remains the same as well.

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Corey
Nov 24, 2004
It is more a function of screen resolution. If your screen resolution on the 22 inch monitor is set to 800 by 600, and your 15 inch monitor is set to 1600 by 1200, the screen print on the 15 inch monitor will be superior.

Peadge 🙂

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Hello everyone!

This may be a stupid question but….

does procuding a printscreen from a 22" monitor creates a better image than from a 15" monitor?

tia
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David Dyer-Bennet
Nov 30, 2004
(Jose Bonifacio) writes:

Hello everyone!

This may be a stupid question but….

does procuding a printscreen from a 22" monitor creates a better image than from a 15" monitor?

Well…the "printscreen" captures however many pixels of resolution are on the monitor. Most people will run a 22" monitor at a higher resolution than they’ll run a 15" monitor, so a screen shot of a program in action will have more resolution from the 22" monitor generally (also depends on what size the window was open to!).

If a bitmap image is being displayed, though, that image is generally displayed as raw pixels, so it’ll be the same *pixel dimensions* on either monitor, so the screen capture will be the same size from either monitor.

"Better" is yet another different kettle of fish, which I’m very carefully avoiding.
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