General Mac hardware discussions: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard??
How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard??
by cfagan - 2/16/04 11:41 AMI have a PC with a MAC keyboard. Since there is no "print screen" button, the PC won't do a screen grab. Is there a way around this?
Re:How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard??
by allassio - 3/27/04 12:42 PM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by cfaganAlthough there Is a 'Print Screen' key on the keyboard (not always marked as such), it's the F13 Key, the usual Screen Snapshot combination is option(the key with the apple symbol or four-looped symbol) together with the Shift key and the 3 key simultaneously.
That is, unless you have preprogrammed your Function keys at the top.
Also check that your keyboard is appropriate to the Country of origin. ie if you run a US System, select the system profiler and you should be able to see which you have, match them together by changing the keyboard layout to US and it should work as labelled.
I had a similar problem using a windows keyboard on my Mac!
Good Luck!
Wyn.P
That doesn't answer the actual question
by markbult - 2/22/07 4:01 PM In reply to: Re:How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by allassioThis does not answer the original question. The questioner has a PC. And has a Mac keyboard plugged into it.
The Mac keyboard does not have a Print Screen key. It has an Alt key and an F13 key, which would be the equivalent of how you'd do this with a PC keyboard.
But that doesn't seem to work (for me either).
That could be F14, given
by mrmacfixit
- 2/22/07 4:40 PM
In reply to: That doesn't answer the actual question by markbult
its placement.
I think I would shell out for a cheap USB keyboard for the PC.
P
(NT) 3 years since question was asked... I suspect they have! ;-)
by grimgraphix - 2/23/07 8:52 AM In reply to: That could be F14, given by mrmacfixit
How to print screen from Mac keyboard plugged into a PC
by cwindomsr - 3/8/08 8:52 AM In reply to: That doesn't answer the actual question by markbult>This does not answer the original question. The questioner has a PC >And has a Mac keyboard plugged into it.
>The Mac keyboard does not have a Print Screen key. It has an Alt key >and an F13 key, which would be the equivalent of how you'd do this >with a PC keyboard.
>But that doesn't seem to work (for me either).
I am using a MAC keyboard plugged into a PC with Vista installed. This should also work with XP. Press the following key combination;
MAC Key(funny looking key that looks a jack)
Control Key
Shift Key
F13 Key
This should capture the entire screen
Hope This Helps
better later then never!
by claudiu nemes - 4/3/08 3:47 AM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by cfaganI have same problem now 4 years later from your original post and i solve the problem like this.
Follow these instructions in order to map the F13-F15 keys on an Apple USB keyboard to the functions, Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Break commonly found on PC keyboards:
1. On your PC, copy the following lines into a text file.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,46,E0,5F,00,46,00,5E,00,37,E0,5D,00,00,00,00,00
2. Rename the text file remap.reg
3. Double click on the file remap.reg and answer yes to the question about adding the information to the registry
4. Reboot
Function keys are now remapped to their PC equivalents
Hope this will help
Yours,
Claudiu
... and not all Mac keyboards are created equal
by jsmbrown - 3/6/09 1:30 PM In reply to: better later then never! by claudiu nemes[... in case anyone else stumbles across this old Forum thread after my posting...]
OK... I admit that I'm obsessive, but I have a stack of cheap/free Mac USB keyboards around and only one PC USB keyboard, and I work with both PC and Mac on a KVM switch.
Setting the record straight, USB was a Microsoft standard, and the first computers to have it were PCs, but it didn't become universally accepted in the PC world until, ironically, Apple switched over from ADB. (Yes, I have a bigger stack of PS2 keyboards than Mac USB, and no I have never gotten any of them to work with a PS2 to USB adapter)
First off, there are different Mac USB keyboards. I have the following which work and are recognized by a PC... at least by WinXP (sp3):
Model A1048 (ca 2003), all white "G4" with Eject, no Power key
Model M7803 (ca 2000), black keys on silver "monochrome G3", Eject
I also have an M2452 (1998) "Grape G3" keyboard with Power/no Eject, but the PC doesn't recognize it any more than it does a PS2 keyboard with a USB adapter.
I've tried all of the key combinations in this weblog with both the A1048 and M7803 and NONE of them work. I even took the M7803 (which is the most PC-like) and tried 3,4, F12, F13, F14 and F15, each alone and then with each and every combination of Control, Alt, Mac-Command (4-Leaf-Clover) and Shift - yes, all 16 combinations - and none of them worked. Then for good measure I tried the Help, Home, Page Up/Down, End, Delete, all three Sound Volume and Eject, both alone and with Control and MacCommand+Control and none of those worked either.
Though Claudiu's remap.reg fix did not work either (I did the above test with the A1048 before and after, and the M7803 after his reg update), it's probably just a matter of some tweaking for different keyboard models and keymaps to get it to work.
In the meanwhile, I'm using "On-Screen Keyboard" until I (or someone else like Claudiu) can go and lookup the code/keymap for specific Mac keyboards and how they map to the PC keyboards.
Thanks and Mahalos!
Johnathan
03-06-2009
Print Screen Key on a Mac
by oncfari - 12/3/09 5:14 PM In reply to: better later then never! by claudiu nemesSeveral of these posts talk about using F13-F15 keys on a Mac. I have a fairly new MacBook Pro (< 18 months old) and a MacBook Duo -- NEITHER of which has a keyboard that goes past F12. Am I the only person on the planet that has this version of Mac laptops or what??! This is crazy -- and not at all helpful to me in solving the problem.
How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard??
by remoteprepress - 10/24/08 6:53 AM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by cfaganGo to http://www.dieselstation.com/software/ and download Applekeys 2 and use F13 to print screen.
Thank You
AppleKeys2 works!
by jsmbrown - 4/9/09 10:09 PM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by remoteprepressThanks, "cfagan"! Once AppleKeys is installed and run, F13 acts like the PrintScreen key. Just what I was looking for, with no extra screen clutter or need for the mouse. With On-Screen Keyboard, I have to keep the top row of keys with "PrtScn" visible, then have to click it with the mouse and include it in the screen shot.
PS SHIFT-CNTRL-ALT, before or concurrent with F14 (or F13 or F15) does nothing on my M7803 "Pro" keyboard.
YOU ARE THE MAN/WOMAN
by cyberlight52 - 7/30/09 10:33 AM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by remoteprepressAPPLEKEYS 2 WORKS AWESOME!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!
USE THE ON SCREEN KEYBOARD
by coolgie - 11/11/08 9:41 PM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by cfaganUSE THE ON SCREEN KEYBOARD From the start menu go to accessories and the Accessibility probly on works in xp but try it
SHIFT+CTRL+ALT AND THAN PRESS F14
by huwey - 12/3/08 6:31 PM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by cfaganSHIFT+CTRL+ALT AND THAN PRESS F14
paste anywhere you want, photoshop or word document... it works!
This Works!
by eperkins2 - 6/22/09 12:09 PM In reply to: How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard?? by cfaganUse the F14 key on the Mac keyboard.
I have an iMac running bootcamp and Windows XP. Using a Mac keyboard, I have found that hitting F14 will capture an entire screen. It works just like the print screen button on a PC keyboard.
Someone said that the F13 key does this, but it does not. Use the F14 key.
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