Customer Reviews

Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory

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This program is awesome. I presently own American Creetings Creator Card 5, Print Shop Deluxe 10, Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2 and I really do not think any of them can touch this program. Actually I just asked a friend to pick up a copy of the Deluxe version for me.

This is great software at a great price. I've used American Greetings CreataCard and Hallmark Card Studio, but this one has them beat. The versatility, selection and total creative control this program gives you puts it in a class by itself. Many will find it hard to use because it does offer such variety and control of all aspects of card creation. With limited choices and "canned" card designs, CreataCard and Card Studio are easier to use. But if you really want to be able to create all sorts of cards, labels, stationary, etc from scratch or be able to modify to the last detail the designs that are available, this program is for you. It truly is an explosion and endless arangement of graphics and fonts, as well as your own digital photos.

UPDATE FEB 2010: My Epson 820 printer died, so I bought another. Decided to get a Lexmark 7675 Pro at a good price. I have a LAN with Frontier DSL High Speed Internet and Lexmark Tech Support helped setting up the wireless printer. Nova's Greeting Card software (Version 7) will not print out any old saved cards or new templates. The sheets coming out are just blank or with chicken tracks on them. Other Windows applications like Word, Excel and map software print out fine. Lexmark says that Nova has to come up with a updated printer driver. I have sent an e-mail to them but have yet to receive a reply. I have a sense that a number of people are seeing printing problems with Greeting Card software, both Nova and Hallmark. Too bad. Guess I'll be buying my cards from now on.

I loved this program enough to purchase their Christian Greeting Card Factory and just ordered Greeting Card Factory 2. The only problem I had with this particular program (and I own many others: Print Shop 10, Print Master 12, CreataCard 7 Gold, Am.Greetings Sprititual Expressions 6) is for some unknown reason, I had to use print preview or parts of the card would be missing (mostly the bottom and one side border). The graphics are so good, it was worth the extra bother. To the person needing help, their online technical services are wonderful and fast. And FREE as opposed to sitting on the phone forever and for $$. Happy Printing!

This is the best ever greeting card program! I have used Hallmark and American Greetings greeting card programs and there is no comparison.

This is an easy-to-use greeting card software program. You can customize the set of pre-made cards simply by right-clicking on the card: a menu will appear and with a simple click, you can customize the card. There are a number of cool fonts, too. The graphics, especially the fine art grouping, are excellent. The only complaint is that the clip art is not customizable and some of the colors of the clip art are just plain ugly. There are thousands of graphics, though, so you won't be disappointed. Highly recommended.

Easy to use and features a nice selection of cards and other publishing projects. Used the program to make birthday cards, invitations. Good variety of graphics and fonts included.

I bought The Greeting Card Factory Deluxe version about a month ago with an instruction booklet included. However even with the booklet by my side, I had difficulty setting up the correct printing options for envelopes you can create. Even though on screen help was very good, their phone support was slow and not toll free. The average wait time during peak business hours is 15 minutes. Fortunately, I was very patient working it out myself and achieved the cards I wanted, but, I would not recommend this product to anyone who is on a tight schedule as this will not solve your greeting card woes.