page.screenshot() does the job in two lines for a local capture or a test assertion. The friction arrives later: full-page shots that get clipped by sticky headers, Chromium installation issues in CI, and the long tail of keeping a browser fleet running in production. This guide covers the screenshot methods that work, the ones with hidden edge cases, and the point where offloading to an API makes more sense. The basic Playwright screenshot Launch a browser, open a page, capture...