The PrintShop 20

by Riverdeep

Product Features

• Enhance your artistic creations with over 170,000 unique images -- from fine art and classic photos to pop art and Web graphics, something to suit every theme & style
• Discover 13,000 different projects in hundreds of exciting categories
• Find the right art for any project need, with the improved art galleries and streamlinedProject Picker
• Share your creation through your instant messenger -- works with MSN Messenger, AOL IM, and other popular messenging services
• Use Creative Touch to design memorable, one-of-a-kind greeting cards

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009APN8
• Item model number: 382222
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 22, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,334 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #56 in Software > Outlet

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Express yourself through creative design! From personalized greeting cards to eye-catching calendars, newsletters, labels, and more, discover original projects for every occasion. The Print Shop is the complete publishing solution, featuring high-quality content and powerful, photo-editing tools. With a host of bold new features and all of the ease-of-use you have come to expect, this is the most powerful and robust version yet. Get all of the next-generation design tools at your fingertips with The Print Shop.

Product Description

Print Shop 20 helps home artists expand their creative horizons and indulges their creative side! The complete creativity pakcage is here -- practically bursting with new tools nad options that help you create wonderful projects!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars (2.5) User-friendly but with a caveat, September 22, 2004

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Luan Gaines "luansos" (Dana Point, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The PrintShop 20 (CD-ROM)

This is the most cost-effective, user friendly program I have found for designing quick logos, letterheads and brochures, this latest version made more accessible because the extra disks are compacted into one. The program offers a great variety of images on every subject, with more available online (for an additional price). However, the greatest complaint is still unanswered...there is virtually no online help available when contacting Broderbund. If a program isn't backed up by online help, the user must consider this when buying the program in the first place. Of course, when I purchased The Printshop from a discount store, I had no idea of the difficulty in using online resources. On the other hand, the program is quite simple and self-explanatory, so there is little need for extra support.

There is an advanced drawing feature that I would like to learn, but the program help does little to guide me through the steps and I cannot navigate anything without some specific direction. Program designers don't seem to be aware of such elementary design flaws, assuming a base knowledge which may not exist. I bought a simple program because of my limited knowledge, expecting a certain degree of guidance through the basics. Broderbund's Printshop offers this assistance, but only to a very limited degree.

Whatever I have designed on my computer looks great on the screen, so this is a perfect program for anything that is directed toward screen resolution. This brings me to my second reservation, and it is considerable: when I have printed out the designs, the quality of print is pixilated and jagged, regardless of the fact that I adjust my printer to the highest resolution available, 4800 DPI. I have so far been unable to address this problem, which makes my designs virtually unusable in print. (Pixels per inch determine the quality of the print; the higher the number, the better the quality, but there does not seem to be any way, at least none that I have found, to fix this problem.) What Broderbund offers in simplicity is cancelled out by the printed quality.

I would be glad to reconsider my rating if anyone has suggestions for solving this rather critical design problem. I expect there are answers, but I certainly haven't found them via the Broderbund website. More customer support would be appreciated by anyone purchasing this product. Luan Gaines/2004.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pleased PS user, September 5, 2004

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Lance Washington "LCW" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The PrintShop 20 (CD-ROM)

I have owned PS 12,15 & 20 and I like them all. I even have PrintMaster 11 and I like that as well but PS 20 made some good improvements. The improvement I like most is the optimal print resolution which makes fonts print much more smoothly. As for installation I have never had a problem with PS 20. I had a minor issue with PS 15 but every install of PS 20 went fine for me. I have done many projects with PS 20 from photos to greeting cards to brochures and many more things. I think its a great product and I use quite often

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this.., June 12, 2004

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Joyce (BowlingGreen, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The PrintShop 20 (CD-ROM)

I agree with the first reviewer. I tried at least 6 or 7 times and it wouldn't install. I also have XP and more than enough space on the computer for this program. I am out $30 b/c I can't return it. I couldn't even find a tech support phone #.