It is commonly used to design calendars, newsletters, invitations, certificates, and cards.
But they're so easy to use that only people over the age of 14 will need them.
#THE PRINT SHOP PROGRAM MANUALS#
When you fold it in thirds and staple it, you have a ready-to-mail flyer.īoth programs come with simple, well-written manuals and reference cards. It will also print a design on a standard business envelope (if your printer can handle one), or create an "aerogram" by printing in the design in the middle of a sheet of paper. Print Shop Companion produces the envelope on a single sheet of paper, which the kids can cut out and paste together. Without going to an expensive stationery store, it's hard to find envelopes designed for a sheet of 8 1/2 -by-11 paper folded in half twice, which is how the program produces greeting cards. The envelopes can incorporate the same graphics and borders as the other documents, as well as some original decorative designs. The envelope maker is a particularly good idea, since kids like to use the program to make greeting cards and invitations. Likewise, it has editors that will let you modify or create your own fonts and borders for use with Print Shop or the companion.
#THE PRINT SHOP PROGRAM PC#
It will also take graphics from popular drawing programs such as ZSoft's PC Paintbrush, Windows Paint, Gem Paint and Deluxe Paint II and convert them into Print Shop's graphics format. It contains a more sophisticated graphics editor than Print Shop. Using the same graphics, border and font files as Print Shop, it can act as a mini-desktop publisher, letter writer and envelope maker. The New Print Shop Companion is a separate program that adds even more bells and whistles. Plenty of small businesses (including computer stores, which presumably have access to much more powerful software) use the program regularly to promote sales and specials.Ī nice feature is a small database that lets you store names for automatic custom printouts of greeting cards, invitations, certificates and the like. You won't mistake Print Shop's quality of the output for a phototypesetter, but for quick flyers, banners, party invitations and the like, it's certainly acceptable. It sends the data over and over again, which can tie up the printer and the computer much longer than necessary. While a simple command to a laser printer will get it to produce multiple copies, Print Shop doesn't handle it this way. Because it was originally designed for dot matrix machines, the program produces multiple copies of an item by printing it over and over. I do have one gripe about laser printer support. The program will drive most popular printers, and a few I've never heard of.
Likewise, it had no trouble with the HP LaserJet II and beat-up old IBM ProPrinter in the office. Print Shop performed flawlessly with the Star NX-1000 Rainbow color printer my kids use (a wonderful little machine if you're looking for a Christmas gift).
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