Print Explosion Deluxe

by Nova Development US

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005MAF7
• Item model number: 727298500059
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 11, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,679 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #66 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > Clip Art
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Print Explosion Deluxe is a fast, easy way to create custom greeting cards, signs, banners, and more under OS X, as well as Mac OS 7.6.1 or later. It includes more than 8,800 professionally crafted designs, making it easy to create greeting cards; matching letterhead, envelopes, and business cards; signs; certificates; postcards; and more. Plus, get 90,000 premium-quality graphics, 5,000 photos, 2,500 fine art images, and 500 TrueType fonts. Dozens of special effects for text and graphics give professional results every time. Also import virtually any graphics file or scan photos using Print Explosion's TWAIN-compliant scanning technology for truly custom projects.

From the Manufacturer

Step up to Print Explosion Deluxe, the fastest, easiest way to create one-of-a-kind custom greeting cards, signs, banners and more. It's easy to use, so you don't need to be a computer whiz. And with more than 8,800 ready-made professional designs for virtually every occasion under the sun, you don't need to be an artist either. Print Explosion Deluxe was designed exclusively with the Macintosh in mind. So you know it works like a Mac program should. And that puts Print Explosion Deluxe in a class of its own.

Print Explosion Deluxe's easy-to-use interface will guide you through the process from concept to finished product in a matter of just minutes! It is ideal for first-time publishers and professional designers alike because it contains rich graphics, layout features, and text effects not found in many other programs at ten times the cost.

Are you an OS X user? Print Explosion Deluxe runs natively under OS X as a carbonized application. This operating system redefines the user experience, and Print Explosion completely embraces it.

Not ready to make the plunge to OS X? That's no problem at all. We have provided complete support for Mac OS 7.6.1 through 9.2.2. Whatever operating system you choose Print Explosion will work for you.

Features • Create custom cards, signs, banners, and more • Built for Mac OS X • More than 8,800 ready-made professional designs • For beginners and professionals • 90,000 graphics including photos and fine art images

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice app, but has weird quirks that need fixing., April 3, 2004

By 

Steven A. Godun "sgodun" (North Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Print Explosion Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Pretty much everything they claim about this app is true. If you're looking for a simple app for print projects, this is hard to beat. That said, here are the gotchas to look out for:

The app doesn't support ANY antialiasing making on-screen editing difficult. If your project is destined for print this isn't a big deal, but if your destination is a screen image it's a problem.

The program's JPEG compression is HORRIBLE; its BEST setting is worse than Photoshop's WORST setting! With its lack of antialiased text, this renders the program's e-postcard feature practically useless.

The installer is questionable. The program ships on three CDs, with the installer on one and extra graphics and fonts on the others. But the installer doesn't add the contents of the other two CDs to your installation. Those have to be installed MANUALLY. Considering that the quality of the graphics on the other two CDs is much higher AND the fact that this information isn't clearly explained anywhere, it becomes an issue for the less knowledgable/experience (for whom this app is primarily aimed towards).

Knowing this, I would buy this app again -- but I wouldn't use it for anything destined for on-screen use. Since the app is called *PRINT* Explosion this makes sense. :-)

UPDATE 5/2/04: Since writing this review, I have learned via an email conversation with Nova Development that they have no interest in addressing the shortcomings listed above. I have also purchased The Print Shop for Mac OS X which is a significantly nicer/higher quality app and is definitely an OS X-savvy app (not a Windows port as Print Explosion is), but it doesn't have the billions of bits of art and fonts that come with Print Explosion. But if given the choice between Print Explosion and Print Shop, choose Print Shop.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tedious, August 11, 2002

By 

A Knitter (Middletown, Delaware) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Print Explosion Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I was very excited when I received this product for my new iBook. I am a teacher, and print items for my classroom quite frequently. First, I was disappointed in the quality of the graphics. Many of them are amateurish and cartoony-looking. Also, I was dismayed by the fact that there is no way to search by keyword for a specific graphic. Each time I need a graphic, it takes me 30 minutes to open folders and search under vague headings. My only other option is to go through the huge book, but I don't always have that handy. The text tools are good, and they give a lot of options as far as shading and shapes go, but if you are planning on purchasing this item for the graphics, don't. I've used Print Artist, Print Shop, and Print Master (when it was still available for Mac) in the past. I would recommend any of these before Print Explosion.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insanely Great Mac Print Software!, August 9, 2003

By 

Mike Bruno (Amarillo, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Print Explosion Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I've been a user of Nova Development products for years, having bought their first Art Explosion product when they first brought it out. They've always been committed to great Mac software, and Print Explosion Deluxe won't disappoint.

My wife and I are both teachers, and we use Print Explosion Deluxe (she under OS 9 and me under OS X) for school projects, as well as for our church. It's a simply outstanding program for making banners, flyers, greeting cards, and other printed projects. The templates/designs are great, and the tools are excellent. And, most important to me being a Mac user since 1984, it feels like a Macintosh product, unlike Print Shop and some of the other "Windows ports" I've tried that are just hokey on the Mac.

Contrary to another review I read on Amazon, I think the graphics are incredibly well organized and of great quality. It's easy to find images for just about any purpose, and the software is just incredibly easy to use.

It even supports EPS graphics. So no matter where the clip art comes from, you can print it out, even on an inkjet printer, and the quality is perfect at any size. Even Microsoft Word doesn't do that for me. And creating your own projects from scratch is easy.

Along with Quicken, Word and Entourage, Print Explosion Deluxe is one of my core Macintosh applications. I use it daily and recommend it wholeheartedly.