When I went to add clip art, I did like how the dialog box was nicely organized categorically into different genres, making it relatively easy to find what I was looking for. Admittedly, this isn’t a huge problem, especially if you aren’t typing super-fast.įor the longest time, PrintMaster has been known to be excellent with the wide variety of cartoons and images within the clip art gallery. Adding shapes, images and text was fairly easy to accomplish, though some operations like the “Headlines” feature, which is basically fancy text, has a noticeable lag of a few seconds from the time I start typing to when it appears within the body of the project. You have your main toolbar at the top as well as resource gallery and design tools at opposite ends of the window for easy access.įor a performance test, I created a sample greeting card project and started working within one of the provided templates.
Getting to the heart of the product, the main interface of PrintMaster feels fairly clean and organized when compared to versions gone by. When you fire up the installation program, you have the choice of installing everything all at once, or you can choose to install the base application and have PrintMaster download anything extra (such as clip art and templates) on demand to your computer, which can be good for saving disk space. However some software stability issues and sluggishness were noted and could be a cause for concern.
Supported OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.Fast forward to the end of 2012, and the software is still around as the newer PrintMaster 2012 Platinum incarnation, which is compatible with the latest versions of Windows. It was powerful for its time, yet easy to work with, delivering dozens of project templates, plenty of clip-art to choose from, and an excellent “on-line” help system. The software I used at the time was PrintMaster Gold for Windows 95. I had my trusty HP Deskjet printer which cranked out whatever I needed without ever having to go to an arts and crafts or a Hallmark store.
If you like to get creative with making posters, greeting cards, and banners, PrintMaster is a sound product that doesn't cost a fortune.īack in the 90s, I used to create my own posters and cards all the time.
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