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- Price: Free to try (3-use trial) $19.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 98/XP
- Date added: October 16, 2005
- Total Downloads: 380,538
- Downloads last week: 1,543
- Product Ranking: #8 in Desktop Publishing Software
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 49 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 07, 2008
The Print Shop has come a long way from the days when heavily pixelated banners printed out on perforated computer paper. Broderbund's The Print Shop Essentials is a next-generation production powerhouse for an extensive variety of projects--newsletters, resumes, greeting cards, presentations--that you create within a shared interface. The Print Shop Essentials is jam-packed with features that offer flexibility over a range of design and production options, such as professional-quality digital clip art, Web-readiness, graphic development tools, and formatting selections. You can scroll between panels and slides on a multipage project using arrows at the bottom of the screen, add custom graphics and effects, and even touch up imported photos. By the time you're ready to choose between regular and professional printing, the memory of the program's slow, cumbersome installation process will have long been forgotten.
Publisher's description
From Broderbund:Pick up The Print Shop and unlock thousands of ideas and inspirations to express yourself. The Print Shop includes all the tools you'll need from pre-designed project templates for beginners to photo editing for experts. Create the perfect greeting card, stationary set, calendar, CD label and more from scratch, or simply choose a project to customize from the wide variety of professionally designed project templates. Choose from more than 115,000 photos, graphics, and Web art. Select from more than 8,000 professionally designed project templates. Find just the right phrase to add to your project from more than 2,600 sentiments. Plus, access your favorite images from previous versions of The Print Shop. Find out why The Print Shop is the leader in desktop publishing.
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User reviews
- All versions: 2.6 starsout of 49 votes
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- Current version: 2.5 starsout of 47 votes
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5 stars
13 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"Great"
Pros: the program is user friendly and has great options.
Cons: none
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1 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"Doesn't work"
Pros: No pros. Can't use it. It requires a registration code.
Cons: Can't use the program. Registration is impossible. It's not even worth trying just to use it three times.
Summary: Don't waste time downloading this.
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2 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. LONG DOWNLOAD....FUTILE."
Pros: NOTHING. DELETED IT.
Cons: I CONTINUALLY GO ADDS TO UPGRADE. DELETED IT.
Summary: I CONTINUALLY GO ADDS TO UPGRADE. LONG DOWNLOAD. WORST FREE TRIAL I HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED. GOT TIRED ATTEMPTING PROJECT SO I DELETED PROGRAM.
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1 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"Wouldn't upload"
Pros: I have an original ( 5 years old ) but this puter won't take it ????
4* for it when it worked -didi what I wantedCons: Nothing --all good -when it work for what it was
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1 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"Bad activation"
Pros: Installed it, but when I try to run it, it wants activation code - BOO!!!!!!!
Cons: Installed it, but when I try to run it, it wants activation code - BOO!!!!!!!
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2 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"I've been using it since the Commodore era"
Pros: It was great when it started. Now there is the Prinshop Publisher 22 and 23. Does everything you need to run a business or just for fun. You can import or export graphics. Fix photos. Even 3D projects and crafts....but
Cons: They have added much to it but the program snaps in the middle of a project or changing fonts and font sizes so that, if you don't constantly save changes you'll lose the project you've spent so much time to make.
Summary: You'd think for $89.00 you'd be able to get support. It would be a terrific program if worked as it's supposed to.
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1 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"No download, just ad"
Pros: none, unable to download
Cons: none, unable to use
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1 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"don't do it......don't do it"
Pros: Never got to try it. is trial ware with 3 use max. wouldn't start and each time I trued, used 1 of the trial uses.
Cons: Never got to try it. is trial ware with 3 use max. wouldn't start and each time I trued, used 1 of the trial uses.
Summary: The vendor is reputable, but this product sux....DON'T DO IT
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1 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"Didn't run it."
Pros: It was available from CNET, so I expect it would have been okay. Maybe I'll try it again later.
Cons: Does it really require .NET 1.5 specifically, or is that the minimum level needed for it to run.? I'm beyond that level, and the dialog should indicate "1.5 or better".
Summary: When I launched it, I got a dialog that said PSE21 required .NET 1.5, or the like. I checked in my list of installed programs, and verified that I had what ever's the latest version of .NET (3?). Since I had found another solution to the problem I was dealing with, I canceled out of the install. Maybe I'll try it again another time. As I said above, they should have listed minimum requirements versus specific version level.
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2 stars
Version: The Print Shop Essentials 21
"Not any different than the Print Shop 6- 22"
Pros: Very easy to use and importing your own photos is great.
Cons: Nothing new, same templates, locked into the same formats. Also, I tried using Print Shop V 22 and V23 lock up my PC.
Summary: Waste of money for version 23 and anything before that if you already own a version of The Print Shop and still running Windows. As the PC keeps locking up almost every time you try to open a project. Also, saving to a PDF has yet to work even when you download new drivers as the support site says to do.
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