Saving images

i know that there are other threads about this, but i dont think there what im looking for.

in 8 i could develop a little of what i was talking about but nothing like i want.

here is the thing, in cs3 is there a better way to do what i want,

i have several apps ive made in flash that allow for users to design what they want through my coding. then i want to have a button that will stop or pause or save the image as it looks durring runtime and be able to save whats seen within the swf file onto the hard drive so it can be printed out .
this doesnt seem that hard, but in searches ive found nothing.

sorry if this is somewhere and i coulndt find it.