Does quality of screenshot image depend on screen res?

I have to include screenshots of  data analysis screens (Excel and SPSS) for some writing I am doing. I have been capturing screenshots and saving them as .png files. My question is: does the quality of the screenshot image depend on the resolution of the monitor, or is it independent of the display? That is, if I take a screenshot from a low-res monitor versus a high-res one (e.g., retina display) of a particular Excel spreadsheet, will it make any difference in the resolution of the image that is saved? Wondering whether the screenshot takes an image from the actual displayed image or from the source code (in which case it may be unaffected by the quality of the monitor). I need screenshots as high quality images, as these will be printed by the publisher.
I am using Grab on a Mac and also using GreenShot on Windows to take the screenshots.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Subbu

After thinking about your post and you are sending this project to a publisher/printer. You best bet is to give the publisher/printer a call and ask them. If you send something that they can't use... they will have to redo what you have done and charge you for it.  A computer screen shot when it comes to printing is low-resolution. Especially images that contains mostly text, for example; Excel spreadsheets. You will be sending them a grayscale image. (You should be sending a bitmap image. Bitmap images need to be three times the resolution compared to a grayscale image.)
(I was in the publishing/printing business for over 28 years and had to deal with this on a daily basis with customers supplied images. Either the images were too blurry or pixilated when printed... looks good on the screen, looks bad on the printed paper. Nine times out of ten we had to redo the customers supplied images.)
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