Customer Reviews

Business Card Factory Deluxe 2.0

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I got tired of having tons of unused business cards with outdated info and I've decided to try making my own cards when it's needed. I bought this program and some Avery CleanEdge paper and installed it on my laptop. What was my impression? Well, it was easy as promised. Of course, many of their 4000+ design samples were not very impressive, but I found something very close to what I was looking for and customization took just a few minutes. When I entered my Avery paper code, it picked picked it up and printed just perfectly, the cards came out looking really good. So it does it's job and I've got what I've been promised in a very quick time. I can't say anything bad about this software, so I gave 5 stars.

But I want to give you a little warning. if you're technically savvy and not going to use really advanced features like matching envelopes, blanks etc, then you can probably get the same thing done in regular Microsoft Word. It will take a little bit longer, but it's pretty much the same standard document editor with some clip art collection. So before you buy make sure you understand clearly what you want to get and it's really beyond what you can do with your favorite text editor.

I am familiar with the Greeting card factory delux and since I was familiar with the layout it was very easy to learn the Business Card Factory Delux program because it has virtually the same user interface which works very nice.

It only took me a few minutes to have some professional business cards printed up.

Great program

In order to give a piece of software any review, one must first be able to load it onto a computer. Mine gets to a certain point and then asks to be directed to a "smart web printing" file that is not on the insallation disk. Alternatively, the error message directs the user to place in the CD drive a disk labeled "Smart Web Printing" from somewhere. I found one in one of the subfiles but I receive another error message states that the selected file is not valid. I went to the control board add/remove programs on which the program had loaded over 250,000K of information. I unstalled the program and got rid of at with one exception: "a message stating that it was "loading Smart web printing" popped up randomly. Pushing the "cancel" button got rid of it for a second or two and then it was back. I searched the Net and discovered that the Smart Web Printing is a feature of Hewlett Packard printing software. I downloaded a new smart web printing file from the HP web site and that fixed the problem. It is apparent to me that Business Card Factory altered the HP files. I waited on the que on the Nova Development tech support line for over 90 minutes and then I was cut off. This program is too inexpensive to fight over returns. I'm going to chuck it in the trash and look for another one preferably from a more extablished software developer.

I've had most of the versions of this program over the years. It is one of those "must have" programs to make business cards of any description. There is plenty of clipart to use with the templates; the templates are good starting points for designs, which are customizeable. It's fast and intuitive. With Avery print to edge labels the results are outstanding. Installation is slow, I think all the clipart is copied to the computer. Art Explosion software I've had always goes the extra mile.

Product did work. Several attempts were needed because you were not aware of transfer completion. Better directions are needed to complete transfer. Not all programs worked on new computer. Some had to be reinstalled manually. Installation took approx. 2 hours.