Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print

“If you’ve ever done design work for any type of software or web-centric company, you have undoubtedly come across the need to capture screenshots for print purposes. This is usually for demonstrative reasons, and it’s a graphic technique employed where just showing the reader a screenshot (usually with a few callouts) can do more than several pages of explanatory text. The trickier part for designers often comes with saving the images. Since the screen captures are by nature low resolution (72 dpi, screen resolution), converting them for print takes a bit of software trickery.”