Print Shop Vs Print Artist

LWest84

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Mar 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/25/97

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I was all set to buy Print Shop Deluxe then I heard some users complaining
that Broderbund has not been updating Print Shop for the Mac any longer.
I just found out that Print Artist is supported for the Mac. Any comments
or suggestions about these two products would be appreciated.

Larry (LWe...@aol.com)

David W Binnion

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Mar 31, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/31/97

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In article <19970325024...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
lwe...@aol.com (LWest84) wrote:

I've been a longtime owner of Broderbund's PrintShop but I
haven't been a happy owner for years. It is slow, buggy,
and getting printer support is problematic. If you have
a B&W postscript printer you will be okay probably. BUT
get a StyleWriter or HP deskjet or Epson and don't pass
Go and Don't collect $200.

I wrote them off and told the company why in a long reasonable
letter. I got a reply from some customer support drone and
the answer was basically pick up your marbles and find
another game.

I have

Since then I've played with several other different programs
of the same type. PrintShop Gold is a straight Wintel port
and not all that great, but not too bad. Card Shop is worth
every penny if you don't spend more than $15 for it. Pretty
chintzy program but it is stable. Corel's PrintHouse could
be a real PrintShop killer if it weren't so dang unstable.

david

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Russ Tolman

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Apr 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/1/97

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I got Print Master Gold from Mindscape and found it to be quite good. I
am running with a laser jet printer. But I found it quite good. Mac
Wharehouse has it for 29.95 in their last catalogue

Don Word

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Apr 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/1/97

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> I too wrote off Print Shop and moved to Corel Print House. I had a lot of
> stability problems with it until I gave it more memory. The default
> partition is much too low; I ended up giving it 12MB. Since then, it's been
> OK, and it prints MUCH faster than Print Shop.
>
Richard, I bought Print Shop, but have been having all sorts of problems
with it - I haven't tried giving it more memory, but I'll do that.
Another problem I have is that it doesn't center on the paper correctly
with my HP660C. What printer are you using and did you have any problems
with that?

Thanks,

Don Word

Paul E. Krause

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Apr 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/2/97

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In article <rjtolman-ya023180...@news.slkc.uswest.net>,
rjto...@mail.sisna.com (Russ Tolman) wrote:

I have PrintMaster Gold and Print Shop. Print Master is far supperior
(although it doesn't like RamDoubler2)

Paul

Phyllis Evans

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Apr 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/4/97

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In article <rcl-ya02408000R...@news.ultranet.com>,
r...@ultranet.com (Rich Long) wrote:

> In article <dword-01049...@pm2-3-151.apci.net>, dw...@apci.net (Don

> Word) wrote:
>
> > I bought Print Shop, but have been having all sorts of problems
> > with it - I haven't tried giving it more memory, but I'll do that.
> > Another problem I have is that it doesn't center on the paper correctly
> > with my HP660C. What printer are you using and did you have any problems
> > with that?
>

> I assume you mean Print House and not Print Shop?
>
> I too use a 660c, and it works fine. You can find the latest HP drivers
> here: <http://hpcc997.external.hp.com/cposupport/indexes1/dwpr.html>.
>

Broderbund's PrintShop is notorious for printing off-center on HP printers.