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The Print Shop Essentials : 10
Broderbund
Review from From the August, 2000 issue of PC Alamode Magazine
by Vade Forrester:
196 .881 BRO
The Essentials (cheapest) version produces finished-quality printed documents: banners, booklets, brochures,
business cards, calendars, certificates, envelopes, fax covers, forms, greeting cards, labels, letterhead,
newsletters, postcards, presentations, report covers, résumés, signs, transfers (tee-shirt), and Web pages. Not
bad for an inexpensive, easy-to-use program!
Depending on which project you select, the program may ask you to insert the CD, in order to read layout design
information. For each project, Print Shop 10 asks you if you want to start from scratch, with a blank page, or
personalize one of its QuickStart layouts that has already been professionally designed. In the Essentials version,
some of the projects, like Presentations, have no QuickStart layouts, so you would have to start with a blank
page. I think I’ll stick to PowerPoint for presentations. More advanced (and expensive) versions would probably
offer additional layouts. But other projects had plenty of QuickStart layouts, which looked better than anything I
could design.
Let’s step through the design of a project, to illustrate how easy it is to use Print Shop 10. I’m going to select a
project from a gallery of QuickStart business card layouts, with business orientations. I selected one called I’m
Robert M. Smith. The QuickStart layout is a departure point I can use to start customizing the card to one I could
use as a Windows SIG leader. First, since I’m not Robert M. Smith, I change my name. I simply click on the name
field and type in my name. There are dotted lines around each field I can modify. Next, I change the address to
the Alamo PC mailbox, the phone and fax numbers to the Alamo PC office numbers, and the e-mail address to
my own. Finally, I change the company name to Alamo PC Organization, Inc.
Now for the graphics. The red circle logo is ok if you don’t have a real logo, but I prefer the real Alamo PC logo,
so I delete the circle and import the color Alamo PC logo. Finally, I change the top line to a purple color to match
the purple in the logo.
Now that I’ve designed the card, I need to print it. Loading a sheet of business card blanks (such as Avery labels
#8371) into the inkjet printer, I click on the printer icon and get the Print screen. If I want more than 10 business
cards, I enter multiples of 10 in the Number of Cards field. Or if I only want one card, I can enter that and tell Print
Shop 10 which card on the page to print on. Shades of the Rockford Files!
If you decide to start from scratch instead of using a QuickStart layout, you’ll see a blank page, and can use the
icons on the left of the screen to fill it in. These icons provide direct access to major functions, like inserting
headlines or text boxes, graphics, frames, and tables. A collection of graphics items like frames and photos is
provided. You can add your own photos and clip art.
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