Print Explosion Deluxe

Rating:
Summary: Great product
Review: This is a wonderful easy to use product. As a retired Graphic Designer I have used Quark and Pagemaker. Both are excellent programs for high end graphic design. However, if you want to do something quickly and easily, this is the program for you.
You can use the blank "sign" template to create just about anything you would want to have on a single page--newletters, Christmas letters with photos, etc.
One note of caution. Patience at installation is a virtue. Originally the program would not work with my iMac, running Mac OS X. However, a call to their friendly and helpful technical support people got the program up and running. I was also pleased to be promptly connected to a real person when I called.
Get the new Greeting Card Factory, also by Nova Development, if you like to make greeting cards on your computer. Each of the programs has a different set of premade designs.

Rating:
Summary: Average Software
Review: This software is easy to use for the most part,although it seems geared to using their designs more than making up your own. The manual that it ships with is over 700 pages because all but 50 pages are thumbnails of the graphics. So you can look up in the book where they are located but when you are searching for something in the program there is no place to type in say trees and get all the tree graphics{which is a feature in Print Shop and others}. You have to navigate thru channels so it takes much longer. If making mailing labels is in your plans, this software is really good at that BUT instead of just picking your Label Size via Avery number, they make that difficult by not listing all the numbers in a row. They are listed by holiday,personal etc. and each of those has SOME Avery numbers and under Blanks where all available label sizes should be it simply says ALL . Then you have to navigate thru the pre-made ones to find your size. There isn't that many label sizes to choose from.So in this long winded way of saying its alot easier to pick there premade design and get that label at the store! It does have some nice features, like you don't have to have the CD in.It ships with 2 CDs, the 2nd only needed to access some graphics and those graphics are only listed in the manual so all the ones pictured in the program itself are on your hard drive. I had PrintShop w/my PC and there is 6 discs you are constantly swapping so this is a real plus.There are lots of nice crafts to make with it like little gift bags,bookmarks and masks for the kids. So its easy to use and average

Rating:
Summary: Average Software
Review: This software is easy to use for the most part,although it seems geared to using their designs more than making up your own. The manual that it ships with is over 700 pages because all but 50 pages are thumbnails of the graphics. So you can look up in the book where they are located but when you are searching for something in the program there is no place to type in say trees and get all the tree graphics{which is a feature in Print Shop and others}. You have to navigate thru channels so it takes much longer. If making mailing labels is in your plans, this software is really good at that BUT instead of just picking your Label Size via Avery number, they make that difficult by not listing all the numbers in a row. They are listed by holiday,personal etc. and each of those has SOME Avery numbers and under Blanks where all available label sizes should be it simply says ALL . Then you have to navigate thru the pre-made ones to find your size. There isn't that many label sizes to choose from.So in this long winded way of saying its alot easier to pick there premade design and get that label at the store! It does have some nice features, like you don't have to have the CD in.It ships with 2 CDs, the 2nd only needed to access some graphics and those graphics are only listed in the manual so all the ones pictured in the program itself are on your hard drive. I had PrintShop w/my PC and there is 6 discs you are constantly swapping so this is a real plus.There are lots of nice crafts to make with it like little gift bags,bookmarks and masks for the kids. So its easy to use and average