How to take a screenshot on Raymarine MFD

If you ever need to ask for help on the Raymarine forum or elsewhere, it's great to have images of what you want to inquire about. Photos on your phone are better than nothing, but they are often blurry, low-resolution, or out of focus.

Much better, and much easier on a boat moving at over 20 knots, is a screenshot. All recent Raymarine MFDs have shortcuts that allow you to save an exact image of what is on the screen to the card in the chart slot.

LightHouse 3 or 4: Axiom Series, eS and gS Series upgraded to LH3

1. Choose where you want to save the screenshots in Home > Settings > This Display > Screenshot File
2. Press (or swipe) Power and then select Take Screenshot

Format: Compressed .PNG

LightHouse 2: a-, c-, e-, eS, and gS Series MFDs

1. Choose where you want to save the screenshots in Home > Customize > Display Settings > Screenshot File
2. Press Power and then select Screenshot

Format: Compressed .PNG

Classic and Widescreen Series: C70, C80, C120, E80, E120, C90W, C120W, C140W, E90W, E120W, E140W

1. Press and hold the DATA button for about 10 seconds. The screenshot will be saved to the CF card. A single beep means success, a triple beep means failure.

Format: Uncompressed .BMP

Once you have taken your screenshots, you can copy them from the card using a Windows or Mac computer. If you need to send them to Raymarine Tech Support, you can attach them to a support case.

If you have to take a photo

Please:

• Include the entire screen, not just the part you think is relevant. Often there is other important information that we can't see outside the frame.
• Make sure to get the focus right in the picture!
• Use the highest resolution possible, both when taking the photo and when sending it to us. Apple iOS devices especially like to scale photos to small, thumbnail resolutions by default when shared, and these are simply too small for us to see clearly.
• If your picture is of your sonar view, turn off White Line and Bottom Fill modes, use an appropriate manual range, and set the speed over ground (SOG) as a displayed data box somewhere in the view.