The Print Shop Deluxe 15 [OLD VERSION]

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000066G91
• Item model number: 385021
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 19, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,238 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #12 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Print Publishing
  • #19 in Software > Outlet
  • #21 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Genealogy
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

The Print Shop Deluxe 15 retains the legendary ease of use made famous by the previous 14 versions of the software, while adding a handful of useful applets and functions. As with all Print Shop products, you can make a ton of stationery items including signs, banners, letterhead, cards, calendars, fliers, and so on. The interface is absolutely terrific and geared toward both rank amateurs and experts: you can create any one of these items with a wizard to guide you through the entire process, or start with a blank slate and build the item yourself. Throughout the process, you can use your own photos and art or pick from thousands upon thousands of ready-made bits of clip art, borders, photos, designs, and more.

Among this product's new features are the ability to save projects as PDF files for professional printing, a simple interface for sharing items through the Internet, new brush effects to enhance your imported photos, and a video editing applet that lets you edit your own videos into video files.

The only thing missing from The Print Shop Deluxe 15 is a printed manual. All of the documentation is online, and it includes a manual accessible from outside the program and rich help files accessible inside. Still, it would be nice to have a manual to reference while attempting a project you haven't done before. Plus, there's one new feature that backfires. Media Manager tries to be an organizer for all of your images, video clips, music files, and so on, but its interface is clunky; it's easier to use Windows Explorer.

Regardless of those tiny tribulations, The Print Shop Deluxe 15 is a terrific program all around. It continues to flaunt the many strengths of the series and adds some useful features without bloating the package. --Joel Durham Jr.

Amazon.com Product Description

Broderbund's well-known The Print Shop is more powerful and versatile than ever. Exhaustively updated, it carries tons of exciting new features like file sharing options, easier-than-ever e-mail tools, built-in movie editing software, a handy Media Manager, an intuitive photo editing interface, and more.

The Print Shop Deluxe 15 features a rich creative library of over 280,000 premium images (80,000-plus on CD and 200,000-plus online) and over 14,500 ready-made project templates (9,000-plus on CD and over 5,500 online). A friendly, intuitive interface and a full set of wizards let you jump right in and go from novice to graphical expert in no time.

Share projects via e-mail with unprecedented simplicity. A one-click viewer makes your projects instantly accessible to friends and family who don't have The Print Ship. Save your projects as popular PDF files for easy printing. Edit videos with MovieShop Express and add titles, transitions, music, and more. Make any paper product you can think of--cards, photo projects, calendars, brochures, and so on--and then go on to design screen savers, e-mail greetings, and entire Web sites.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great for some, not for others, September 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Print Shop Deluxe 15 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Even though there were a lot of negative reviews I bought this product mostly because PC Magazine rated it one of the best (5 stars) and the price can't be beat with the discounts. Here's my take if you read the other reviews like I did.

This program tries to make it easy to start a project (with a walk through wizard) but with any publishing software, you have to know what you are doing. That includes understanding your printer settings, etc. Yes, printer settings can be changed with the program (as with most any software) so it will take some time for inexperienced users to understand how to use it properly.

I must say, this program offers a ton of nice clip art, photos, etc than most other programs in this class. It has 2 CD's full of clipart but you'll need a lot of disk space to install it all. The broadband version of PrintShop accesses the clipart from the internet but with big hard drives available these days, save yourself some headache and buy the regular software, not the broadband one. If you don't have a lot of harddrive space (a few gigs to spare) I wouldn't suggest buying this.

There is no user manual included and the help files are not as in depth as I would like. I find it hard to believe that a complicated program such as this does not have at least a printable copy of a user manual. So be warned, if you not an experienced software user this product might not be for you.

I also saw some negative reviews on photo editing/printing. I haven't tried it so I can't compare. (I use other software for photo editing and printing). There are a lot of great photo editing software packages available. If you're purchasing this for that reason, you might want to look somewhere else. This thing is for printing out greeting cards, postcards, and things of that nature. I guess you can be thankful that there is photo editing features with this at all.

Final take - For someone who has used software since they were young and does for a living, I could figure most things out on my own. If you are inexperienced, you may find this product frustrating. But for the price, you get a lot of nice clipart and wizards to help for most basic home desktop publishing needs (greeting cards, postcards, calendars, etc).

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The last piece of Broderbund Software I will ever buy, October 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Print Shop Deluxe 15 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

This is the 4th or 5th version of The Print Shop that I have owned. The last few have been very buggy, causing my computer to freeze up, generally at the worst possible time. But this version is the worst. This one froze up my computer during the install.

I was lucky. Windows XP repaired itself for me. I looked at Broderbund's web site for information on how to get the product intalled and decided not to even try their work around. I've simply run out of patience with a product who's audience is the average user, which demands guru-level computer skills just to install the software.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photo Magic Made Easy, February 1, 2003

By 

Terry L. Bell "bellt61" (Cleveland,Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Print Shop Deluxe 15 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Hey Everyone I have this product and I think the Print Shop 15 is the best one they created. I haven't had any problems with any of the print shops programs that I have purchased.

I do all my photo's using this program and the designs are outstanding. I admit it takes time to learn all the ins and outs of it, but all programs you have to learn by trial and error. I have the previous version of it also. Every time the new program comes out I buy it.

The Print Shop is the very first one I bought and I am not sorry I did. Its thanks to the Print Shop that I got so interested in learning what I could create and wow it was awesome. The best part of this fantastic program is you can do almost anything with your photos and so much more.

I learned to change the backgrounds, add special effects, add sounds, add more scenes into the picture and combine them into one. You can crop, adjust brightness, contrast, change background color, and they also put in where you edit your own colors for your text and so much much more.

They have some very beautiful graphics in this program and I constantly work with it every day and I learn more as I go. The best part is watching my photo's take on a whole new look. Its thanks to the Print Shop that I can take an ordinary photo and turn into something that I can treasure. I wouldn't know what to do without my Print Shop program.

I just love this program, the best buy I ever made. I even look for their emails in my emails and its the very first one I open. I can't wait to see what the next one will be if they come out with a new one. They got me as a lifetime customer!