
Kindle Fire (no volume buttons) – One needs to connect their Kindle Fire to a computer with the Kindle SDK installed and take a screenshot through the development environment.Open the Photos app to access the screenshot(s). Kindle Fire 2 and Kindle Fire HD (with volume button) – Press and hold the Template:Keypress at the same time.Kindle Keyboard (Kindle 3 and Kindle DX) – Press Template:Keypress.Kindle or Kindle Touch – Simply press and hold the Template:Keypress and then tap anywhere on the screen.The screen will flash and the image will be saved in the root folder of Kindle storage. Kindle Paperwhite - touch and hold on the top-left and bottom-right corners of the screen (or top-right and bottom-left corners).On Amazon Kindle devices, one can take a screenshot by: However, on most devices, apps may use the system screenshot functionality without special permissions. There is no direct way to take screenshots programmatically in non-system apps. On certain devices that use modified Android the button combination and the storage location can vary.Īlso, when a keyboard is connected via USB-OTG, pressing the print screen button will take the screenshot. Screenshots can be taken by pressing Template:Keypress, and are saved in the "Screenshot" folder in the gallery after a short sound and visual effect.


Screenshot kits were available for standard (film) cameras that included a long antireflective hood to attach between the screen and camera lens, as well as a closeup lens for the camera. Most screenshots are raster images, but some vector-based GUI environments like Cairo are capable of generating vector screenshots. Systems with composite video output could be connected to a VCR, and entire screencasts preserved this way.

Some systems had a BSAVE command that could be used to capture the area of memory where screen data was stored, but this required access to a BASIC prompt. Sometimes text-only screens could be dumped to a text file, but the result would only capture the content of the screen, not the appearance, nor were graphics screens preservable this way. Through the 1980s, computer operating systems did not universally have built-in functionality for capturing screenshots. The first screenshots were created with the first interactive computers around 1960. Screenshot techniques Digital techniques
