Print Artist Platinum 22 Review

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(More customer reviews)I have used Print Artist since 1997 and have loved it. It has always been very versatile, easy to use, and had a good selection of clipart. I was extremely disappointed in version 22, now from Nova Development instead of Sierra. At first I thought I had a bad disk, I couldn't get the program to launch at all so I exchanged it. The exchange process was quick & easy with Amazon. After trying the replacement and getting several IT personnel involved we finally gave up and I returned it and we reinstalled the older version. Also, Nova does not support the versions produced by Sierra so I couldn't even access my old files. What a waste of time and effort.

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PrintMaster Nick Jr. Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)This is exactly what I wanted for my kids bday party. I had planned a dora and diego theme and this helped me alot with creating party sets, invitations, name tags, party hats, party signs, goody bags, stickers and scrapbook pages. I loved it!

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Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 (Mac) Review

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(More customer reviews)This should be called "Print Disappointment". It's buggy, some of the really cool features, like color gradations on a shape, don't work. You can't open networked files. The clipart is amateurish. There is a very limited colorset. I asked tech support about that and they said it can't be expected to provide the same features as professional software. Well, I've been using Printmaster on a PC for 8 years, it cost $20, and the earliest version I used worked better than this product.


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For years Print Explosion® has offered Mac users the fastest, easiest way to create spectacular custom print projects. Now Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 takes advantage of the latest OS X innovations, delivering more creative options than ever before-from store-quality greeting cards to photorealistic scrapbooks.And you can do it all without ever leaving your Macintosh. Print Explosion Deluxe's easy-to-use interface will walk you through the process, from concept to finished product in a matter of just minutes!Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 is ideal for first time publishers and professional designers alike because it contains rich graphics, layout features and text effects once found only in programs costing ten times as much.Optimized for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, this brand new version features an enhanced user interface, thousands of new projects plus complete integration with iTunes and iPhoto!You can even use the enhanced mail merge feature to automatically personalize and send greeting cards to people in your Mac OS X Address Book.LOOK WHAT YOU CAN CREATE! - Greeting Cards- Signs & Posters - Scrapbooks- Banners - Certificates- Calendars - Labels- Letterheads - Envelopes- Business Cards - T-Shirts- Web Pages - Postcards- Crafts - And More!LOOK WHAT YOU GET! •Expanded! 13,000+ Readymade Designs, Including 5,000+ Store-Quality Greeting Cards •Expanded! 100,000+ Premium-Quality Graphics and 900+ Fonts •Hundreds of Text Effect Combinations •Hundreds of Label Layouts-All Avery®- Compatible •Hundreds of Signs, Posters, Banners, Certificates, Postcards, and More! •Turn Projects into Web Pages •Electronic Greetings •Brand New User Interface •New! Browse and Import Photos from iPhoto •New! Print CD/DVD Labels with iTunes Playlists •New! Photorealistic Scrapbook Graphics •New! Mail Merge Integrated with Mac OS X Address BookSYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Universal Binary: Runs natively on both PowerPC (G3 or faster) and Intel-based Macintosh computers; Mac OS X 10.2 or later; 512 MB RAM; DVD Drive. Software furnished on DVD. CD-ROMs available free via mail exchange. See user manual for details.

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Greeting Card Factory 8.0 Deluxe Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been trying different Greeting Card Software for some time and have the following programs installed on my computer at this time:
American Greeting CreataCard Plus 4.
American Greeting PRINT! Premium 2.
Hallmark Card Studio 2009( Have renewed since 2004). Will not renew again.
Hallmark Comedy Card Studio.
Printmaster Platinum 2.0.
Card Builder from Pearl Mountain.
Greeting Card Studio.
Greeting Card Factory is the best yet. It has all of the features you find on the other programs plus it offers plenty of templates for every occasion. It is the most intuitive program and has plenty of clip art, sentiments and photos. It allows you to alter the printing on the front of the card as well as the verse inside. One of the best features is the ability to control the size of the thumbnail to choose your template. All of the other programs only offer you a small thumbnail to pick the template you want but Greeting Card Factory allows you to enlarge the selections so you can actually read what is on the card as you are making your selection. Much better than switching back and forth till you get the template you want.

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Nova Development RMWT Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 8.0 Software offers the biggest selection of store-quality greeting cards of any product in the category, an unprecedented number of premium-quality graphics, 4x8 photo card projects, a new inter-face, photorealistic graphics, keyword searching and so much more!

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Printmaster Gold V 17.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)For me this program was a nightmare to download using the SmartDownload AppStream that Broderbund requires you to use. Slow, slow even though I usually download large programs in a flash with my cable connection.
Unbelievably, this AppStream download program does not go away after the download. If my computer runs, it runs. To even open the Printmaster Gold 17 program, you must go through an AppStream internet login process, and the login screen doesn't even remember your ID and password. You must retype these every time---grrrr. You must stay on the internet throughout the program, and when you finish, Printmaster will close, but on my cable connection, AppStream never does.
It seems that most of the Printmaster's images "live" on the internet, so if you want to browse a collection, it takes a bit of time as each item downloads. It makes scrolling through the collection a bit slow. And I suppose it might be really irritating if you have a slow connection.
There are lots of opportunities to create your cards from scratch, putting together from their selection of backgrounds, frames,digital photos, etc., and that's what I do most of the time.
The cards print out beautifully on the glossy greeting card stock that I use. There is a professional quality to these, and I only print on the standard setting of ink.
My recommendation to Broderbund: (1) The user needs to be able to run the full Printmaster program without the internet, and then connect to the internet by choice if needed. (2) Get rid of AppStream entirely.
I originally rated this program with One Star, but this is my revised review, and I would give the program Three Stars now. Amazon will let me edit the content of my review, but I couldn't edit the Star evaluation, so I put Three Stars in the title line.

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The Print Shop Zoom Review

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(More customer reviews)I was very disappointed in this software. It's not really good for anything and I still haven't figure out why this was even released. I own Printmaster 15, American Greetings Creata Card 8, and an few other photo and scrapbook programs. This software has templates to make banners, cards, invitations, and all that stuff. The templates are few compared to other programs and then to customize them, well you really can't. If you try to start out with a blank template and add your own photos you are limited to what you can do. No borders, edging, font manipulating. It's just insert the photo, do some basic photo touch ups and that is pretty much it. I wanted to add shadows, edges, frames to my pictures and couldn't. The fonts could only be made in single color. You could not add outlines or drop shadows, NOTHING. Add the font, pick your size, pick your style, and that was it. You can only save to their 1 file format which of course only works with zoom. No e-mailing or file converting. What good is this program I have yet to find out. I spend time to make a birthday invitation from my own pictures. Well guess what, I couldn't e-mail it to my guests. Print is all it does. Complete waste of money. This is the first software I ever purchased that I will be returning. Spend a few extra bucks and get something like Print Master, Print Shop, or something comparible.
UPDATE: I returned this software and received a full refund.

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The Print Shop Zoom offers the best in total photography and desktop publishing creativity. Easily edit, enhance and transform your photos into inspirational print projects. Insert your most cherished photographs into ready-made greeting cards, calendars and more to share with friends and family. Microsoft Windows Vista Certified. All new software - faster and easier-to-use than ever before. Powerful photo editing tools enable one-click fixes for common photo flaws, red-eye removal and image cropping. 1000+ project templates, 40,000+ graphics and images, PLUS 400+ premium fonts. Apply sensational photo effects to any project – the possibilities are endless. All content is in-box.

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PrintMaster 2011 Platinum SB Review

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(More customer reviews)I pre-ordered this through Broderbund. Somewhat satisfied and dissatisfied with it's predecessor I decided I would take a chance. My evaluation isn't about the software because I won't put the disk in my Mac. Why? I was sent a cheaply created (burned) copy of the program with a homemade adhesive label. I'd expect this from a new software company but Broderbund??? Tacky and potentially damaging to your machine. It's stupid to put disks with adhesive labels in your computers and cd players.
After arguing for 40 minutes and threatening a fraud alert with the BBB they finally agreed to credit me for the disk, shipping and let me keep the disk because they wouldn't pay for return shipping. Will it be the same way with Amazon? I'm not sure. I do know that the supervisor told me there are no boxes for the product even though there is one pictured here AND on Broderbund's site. I'd investigate first unless you're OK with adhesive labels.
***UPDATE**** I had to look at this product. If you look at the software product just before they released this one (PrintMaster Platinum 2.0) you'll see that people didn't have the greatest opinion of it. I gave it a 3. I think they whipped this one out to 'fix' the fatal issues of 2.0. Well, "Back to the drawing board Broderbund!"
***The labels got slightly better. SLIGHTLY. You still have to literally copy and paste your address for every single cell. No Find/Replace. Very time consuming.
***The calendar is basically a graphic. Yes, you choose the year or the month depending on whether you are doing an annual or monthly. However you have no way to type items into a cell/day. With Print Shop you can. An improvement but like the labels, a very SLIGHT improvement.
****EVERYTHING IS ONLINE. People complained about everything being installed and killing your hard drive but now you have to be able to access the Internet if you want to create anything. Yes, this is normal for print software but at least you get some on the disk or installed. But with this one it looks like you need the Internet for everything. Let's put it this way. Everything I tried to find kept needing the Internet. Maybe the clipart is on the disk but the projects don't appear to be. Very sad.

****Tackiness: I'm a teacher and I'm picking about spelling. I'm adding a graphic that shows how poorly they were at Broderbund when it came to looking at things before releasing this 'burned' disk. They spelled 'coming' as 'comming.'
****Going back to labels I'm also including a graphic of a sheet of labels aimed at Halloween. First the design has graphics all over the sheet. Next they have the instructions mixed within the labels themselves. Huh? It's a bunch of gobbledygook.
If you're interested in this product look at 2.0 but I'm still very glad I got my money back. Big, big, big disappointment. It keeps it's 1 because they did a shoddy job 'fixing' up a piece of software that they screwed up in the first place. So not worth $40.00! Back to Print Shop for me and praying I can find a good one for my Mac.*****UPDATE***** I wanted to create business cards/behavior punchcards (yeah, I didn't fully take it off) and the program printed some crazy enlarged business card that had the right side of it printed on the left side and vice-verce. I have NEVER seen a printing program this messed up!!!

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