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PrintMaster 2011 Platinum
The Fun and Easy Way to Create Personalized Projects and Crafts
Create personalized print projects in minutes - anything you can imagine, you can create!*
PrintMaster 2011 Platinum is easy-to-use design software that's great for making a greeting card, capturing memories in a scrapbook, creating a calendar or writing a newsletter to keep in touch with friends and family. It's the ultimate creative toolkit for all your craft projects.
PrintMaster is a page layout design tool is great for making projects for home, work, school, organizations and more!
Whether you're capturing a memory or adding a splash of creativity to your life, PrintMaster 2011 Platinum delivers tons of quality ready-made designer templates, clip art, easy-to-use design tools, a built-in photo editor, advance color match technology, and so much more to create personalized print projects quickly and easily.
PrintMaster 2011 Platinum is easy to install and start designing today!
Features:
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- Easy-to-Use Software: Drag-and-drop photos, text and design elements with incredible ease.
- Easy Design Tools: Edit photos, add text and create stunning artistic effects.
- Perfect for Every Occasion: Choose from a gallery of spectacular designs to capture life's special moments.
- Tons of Projects: Select from quality designs or start fresh with a blank template.
- Easy to Share: Print, email or publish your creation on the web.
- Integrated Professional Printing: Directly order your project from an online photo site to get "store-quality" printed designs shipped right to your doorstep
- PC and Mac Compatible: Use the program on a PC or Mac and create, edit and share files seamlessly.
What's New in 2011?
Incredible Image Gallery.
2,000+ new templates--PrintMaster templates are created by design professionals, making it easy for you to get started quickly and easily.
Create fun shapes--including new die cut shapes.
50,000+ new high-quality clip-art images--Enjoy irresistible PNG files with transparent backgrounds in a wide variety of categories.
New! Add dimension to your project with die-cut shapes--Shapes can be added, then cut and removed to let your creativity shine through.
Matching Sets
New! Matching sets--Search through templates in matching sets, making it easier to create party sets and stationery.
Improved hard-drive space--smaller footprint on your hard drive, only one disc to install!
Improved content searching--Larger thumbnails and higher preview resolution make it easier to find what you are looking for.
Improved headlines, including 3D effects--Headlines are a great way to add pizzazz to any project and are sure to impress friends and family.
Improved calendar tools.
Wizard Design
Improved grouping functionality--Grouping objects allows you to create a new object that can be manipulated as if it were a single object.
Improved calendars--Create personalized calendars to keep track of appointments or make great gifts.
Wizard for projects, business cards, and label sheets--Create it once and print it multiple times.
The sky's the limit with these projects and so much more!
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Get creative today with the ultimate toolkit for creating personalized projects and crafts. Fun project templates, irresistible clip art images and easy design tools make PrintMaster so fun to use. Plus great features like drag-and-drop for photos and clip art, slider tools for drop shadows and easy headlines make PrintMaster the best way to add a personal touch to everyday projects. New Features Include: 2,000+ new templates 50,000+ new high quality clip art images Templates arranged in matching sets Improved content searching Improved headlines, including 3D effects Improved grouping functionality Improved calendars Wizard for projects that print out with multiples on a sheet (business cards & labels)
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95 of 97 people found the following review helpful
I pre-ordered this through Broderbund. Somewhat satisfied and dissatisfied with it's predecessor I decided I would take a chance. My evaluation isn't about the software because I won't put the disk in my Mac. Why? I was sent a cheaply created (burned) copy of the program with a homemade adhesive label. I'd expect this from a new software company but Broderbund??? Tacky and potentially damaging to your machine. It's stupid to put disks with adhesive labels in your computers and cd players.
After arguing for 40 minutes and threatening a fraud alert with the BBB they finally agreed to credit me for the disk, shipping and let me keep the disk because they wouldn't pay for return shipping. Will it be the same way with Amazon? I'm not sure. I do know that the supervisor told me there are no boxes for the product even though there is one pictured here AND on Broderbund's site. I'd investigate first unless you're OK with adhesive labels.
***UPDATE**** I had to look at this product. If you look at the software product just before they released this one (PrintMaster Platinum 2.0) you'll see that people didn't have the greatest opinion of it. I gave it a 3. I think they whipped this one out to 'fix' the fatal issues of 2.0. Well, "Back to the drawing board Broderbund!"
***The labels got slightly better. SLIGHTLY. You still have to literally copy and paste your address for every single cell. No Find/Replace. Very time consuming.
***The calendar is basically a graphic. Yes, you choose the year or the month depending on whether you are doing an annual or monthly. However you have no way to type items into a cell/day. With Print Shop you can. An improvement but like the labels, a very SLIGHT improvement.
****EVERYTHING IS ONLINE. People complained about everything being installed and killing your hard drive but now you have to be able to access the Internet if you want to create anything. Yes, this is normal for print software but at least you get some on the disk or installed. But with this one it looks like you need the Internet for everything. Let's put it this way. Everything I tried to find kept needing the Internet. Maybe the clipart is on the disk but the projects don't appear to be. Very sad.
****Tackiness: I'm a teacher and I'm picking about spelling. I'm adding a graphic that shows how poorly they were at Broderbund when it came to looking at things before releasing this 'burned' disk. They spelled 'coming' as 'comming.'
****Going back to labels I'm also including a graphic of a sheet of labels aimed at Halloween. First the design has graphics all over the sheet. Next they have the instructions mixed within the labels themselves. Huh? It's a bunch of gobbledygook.
If you're interested in this product look at 2.0 but I'm still very glad I got my money back. Big, big, big disappointment. It keeps it's 1 because they did a shoddy job 'fixing' up a piece of software that they screwed up in the first place. So not worth $40.00! Back to Print Shop for me and praying I can find a good one for my Mac.
*****UPDATE***** I wanted to create business cards/behavior punchcards (yeah, I didn't fully take it off) and the program printed some crazy enlarged business card that had the right side of it printed on the left side and vice-verce. I have NEVER seen a printing program this messed up!!!
After arguing for 40 minutes and threatening a fraud alert with the BBB they finally agreed to credit me for the disk, shipping and let me keep the disk because they wouldn't pay for return shipping. Will it be the same way with Amazon? I'm not sure. I do know that the supervisor told me there are no boxes for the product even though there is one pictured here AND on Broderbund's site. I'd investigate first unless you're OK with adhesive labels.
***UPDATE**** I had to look at this product. If you look at the software product just before they released this one (PrintMaster Platinum 2.0) you'll see that people didn't have the greatest opinion of it. I gave it a 3. I think they whipped this one out to 'fix' the fatal issues of 2.0. Well, "Back to the drawing board Broderbund!"
***The labels got slightly better. SLIGHTLY. You still have to literally copy and paste your address for every single cell. No Find/Replace. Very time consuming.
***The calendar is basically a graphic. Yes, you choose the year or the month depending on whether you are doing an annual or monthly. However you have no way to type items into a cell/day. With Print Shop you can. An improvement but like the labels, a very SLIGHT improvement.
****EVERYTHING IS ONLINE. People complained about everything being installed and killing your hard drive but now you have to be able to access the Internet if you want to create anything. Yes, this is normal for print software but at least you get some on the disk or installed. But with this one it looks like you need the Internet for everything. Let's put it this way. Everything I tried to find kept needing the Internet. Maybe the clipart is on the disk but the projects don't appear to be. Very sad.
****Tackiness: I'm a teacher and I'm picking about spelling. I'm adding a graphic that shows how poorly they were at Broderbund when it came to looking at things before releasing this 'burned' disk. They spelled 'coming' as 'comming.'
****Going back to labels I'm also including a graphic of a sheet of labels aimed at Halloween. First the design has graphics all over the sheet. Next they have the instructions mixed within the labels themselves. Huh? It's a bunch of gobbledygook.
If you're interested in this product look at 2.0 but I'm still very glad I got my money back. Big, big, big disappointment. It keeps it's 1 because they did a shoddy job 'fixing' up a piece of software that they screwed up in the first place. So not worth $40.00! Back to Print Shop for me and praying I can find a good one for my Mac.
*****UPDATE***** I wanted to create business cards/behavior punchcards (yeah, I didn't fully take it off) and the program printed some crazy enlarged business card that had the right side of it printed on the left side and vice-verce. I have NEVER seen a printing program this messed up!!!
50 of 50 people found the following review helpful
After working with this program for a few days, I uninstalled it. I have used printmaster for many years, but this version is unacceptable. I e-mailed Broderbund, but never received a response. Older versions were easy to use, and I thought this one would also be a good product. It isn't!
52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
I used a Printmaster Gold Program for many, many years and really enjoyed it. Sadly my new computer had Windows 7 and my Printmaster Gold program was so old it would not work on my new computer. I decided to stick with Printmaster because I got so much use out of my previous program.
I ordered Printmaster Platinum 2010 right from the company. It arrived today and after checking it out and playing with it for several hours I must say that I am VERY disappointed with this version. The art work that came on it is mostly photo style and while it is pretty user-friendly, I still have not yet found out how to do some of the things on this version that I used to do on the older one.
I really wish that I could find a version of Printmaster Gold that was like the version I had and would work on my computer. I have serious doubts that I will get even 1/8 of the use with this new version that I got with the older Gold version. I made cards, labels, signs, printed envelopes, and so many other things with that older program. I even found it's clip art attractive and useful. I so enjoyed personalizing photos on cards and adding clip art hats and other items to them.
Some might like this particular version but I feel like it was a quickly put together version and little effort was put into including a good variety of art work.
I prefer to use my own photos in my projects and use the Printmaster clip art to enhance and personalize them. The Platinum 2010 version has LOADS of photos of other people along with some art work.....which will be of little (if any) use to me.
Addition: With the hoilday season quickly approaching I discovered another problem with the Printmaster 2011. I recently had to print some lables....and my needing only one shipping lable created a problem. I can't figure out how to print just one!
I used to be able to select the number of lables I wanted the Printmaster program to print. I have yet to find out how to do that with Printmaster 2011. I do not need a whole sheet of the same shipping lable and hate to waste the ink and lable blanks.
I ordered Printmaster Platinum 2010 right from the company. It arrived today and after checking it out and playing with it for several hours I must say that I am VERY disappointed with this version. The art work that came on it is mostly photo style and while it is pretty user-friendly, I still have not yet found out how to do some of the things on this version that I used to do on the older one.
I really wish that I could find a version of Printmaster Gold that was like the version I had and would work on my computer. I have serious doubts that I will get even 1/8 of the use with this new version that I got with the older Gold version. I made cards, labels, signs, printed envelopes, and so many other things with that older program. I even found it's clip art attractive and useful. I so enjoyed personalizing photos on cards and adding clip art hats and other items to them.
Some might like this particular version but I feel like it was a quickly put together version and little effort was put into including a good variety of art work.
I prefer to use my own photos in my projects and use the Printmaster clip art to enhance and personalize them. The Platinum 2010 version has LOADS of photos of other people along with some art work.....which will be of little (if any) use to me.
Addition: With the hoilday season quickly approaching I discovered another problem with the Printmaster 2011. I recently had to print some lables....and my needing only one shipping lable created a problem. I can't figure out how to print just one!
I used to be able to select the number of lables I wanted the Printmaster program to print. I have yet to find out how to do that with Printmaster 2011. I do not need a whole sheet of the same shipping lable and hate to waste the ink and lable blanks.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
YUCK!
I have used Printmaster for MANY years. I love that I can put things on the page, and have them stay where I place them. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Teri Caron
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I had the old Print Master version and I used it for many years. It was a very useful product, but it was time to upgrade. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rachel
HATE IT
I have used Printmaster for years moving up with each new upgrade of the product each time getting less and less impressed, this one it truly AWFUL clip art is terrible search is... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Beverly Syrett
Not good for existing users.
If you have files you want to use that were created on old versions of PrintMaster, I highly recommend getting PrintMaster 18. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Marianne Muller
Don't Buy This Product
We have been using printmaster for years. It has been a great product. We purchased Printmaster 2011 and hate it! Read more
Published 4 months ago by sawman
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So excited to receive after remarks about it. But was disappointed in moving around the program and disgusted
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Published 4 months ago by yesgracie
If there was a MINUS 5 star, Printmaster would get it!
My wife just purchased Printmaster (2.0 Gold Edition) to create a calendar project for Christmas. The copy on the box advises this can be done directly on your computer, so you... Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. Gibson
Save your money! Don't buy Printmaster Platinum 2011!
I used an older version of Printmaster Platinum for many years and really liked it. It was a quick, simple way to create and print a variety of projects- no hassle, no problem. Read more
Published 6 months ago by graphlab
Worst Greeting Card Software
This software is the worst I've ever used hands down! The simplest of things are so complicated. I will never buy from this manufacturer again. Total waste of money.
Published 7 months ago by DMH
The worst yet
I purchased a new computer and decided to update the software. Wow! Bad mistake! I purchased Printmaster Platinum 2011 and Family Tree Maker 2011 and have had 3 and 2 previous... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Darrell
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