# Print screen in keystroke

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/print-screen-in-keystroke/21337>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 11, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/print-screen-in-keystroke/21337 "2018-12-11T16:07:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Alok.Vijayakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Alok.Vijayakumar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alok.Vijayakumar)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/print-screen-in-keystroke/21337/1 "2018-12-11T16:07:34Z")

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when i try to create print job on keystroke script is not working. There error message “name ‘event’ is not defined” . here is the my script

job = system.print.createPrintJob(event.source.parent)  
job.print()

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/print-screen-in-keystroke/21337/2 "2018-12-11T16:23:14Z")

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Where are you monitoring your keystroke?

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**Author:** ![ethomason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ethomason/32/43338_2.png) [@ethomason](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ethomason)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/print-screen-in-keystroke/21337/3 "2018-12-11T16:29:46Z")

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I’m guessing you’re using a Keystroke Client Event Script. Something like this should work for you:

```auto
window = system.gui.getWindow("Your Window").getRootContainer()

job = system.print.createPrintJob(window)
job.print()

```

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**Author:** ![Alok.Vijayakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Alok.Vijayakumar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alok.Vijayakumar)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/print-screen-in-keystroke/21337/4 "2018-12-12T01:55:57Z")

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Thanks ethomason, The print job worked.