Friday, September 18, 2009

PrintShop Mail Suite

PrintShop Mail Suite program is not just a regular print shop. PrintShop Mail Suite is a software solution helping organizations create new business with highly personalized and professional one-to-one communications. Designed to help capture new business and increase response rates, PrintShop Mail Suite works in any business environment and comes as a desktop version for producing one-off communications for prospecting, or a web version, called PrintShop Web, for managing and producing ongoing and repetitive communications, enabling you to do more as your business grows.

Our latest release, PrintShop Mail Version 6.1, features some great tools to make your document design and printing even more efficient:

* Enhanced color management capability and spot color functionality
* Object anchoring
* Bleed and crop marks at page level for space maximisation
* Creation of expressions using the Expression Assistant wizard or with custom scripting
* Support of PDF for dynamic objects
* Workflow capabilities and remote printing with PlanetPress Suite workflow tools

What's new in Print Shop

Getting a professional-looking result has never been easier. This edition of The Print Shop combines a set of powerful yet easy-to-use layout tools with our award-winning step-by-step New Project Setup Assistant. The result is an application as powerful as graphics programs many times more expensive but with the kind of elegant simplicity you have come to expect from the award-winning design labs of Software MacKiev.

Booklets Projects:Create a multipage project from 2 to 32 pages. Great for making annual reports, family newsletters, sales materials, menus and much more!

DVD Cases Project:This was the most often-requested project so here it is!DVD Case templates are included that match every one of the Apple iDVD themes!

Photo Editing:
Import your own photographs directly into The Print Shop from Apple’s iPhoto and then fix, edit and enhance them using The Print Shop’s built-in Photo Workshop. Crop in shapes such as circles, hearts and stars. Adjust color, brightness, contrast, and sharpness. Fix flaws and get rid of red-eye and scratches. Apply custom effects such as pixelate, noise, emboss, antique, and more.

Effects:There are now more than twice as many Special Edges and Transparent Effects to turn your projects into masterpieces!

Art CD:Our new Art CD is packed with gorgeous professional-quality photographs (twice as many as in the previous edition!) and spectacular new graphics collections from nostalgia to classical art.

Add a touch of class with artistic images from whimsical modern art to nostalgic paintings of days gone by. Our built-in search engine makes finding what you want a breeze. Look for just the right graphic by topic, keyword or theme.

Print Shop Essentials

The Print Shop has come a long way from the days when heavily pixelated banners printed out on perforated computer paper. Broderbund's The Print Shop Essentials is a next-generation production powerhouse for an extensive variety of projects--newsletters, resumes, greeting cards, presentations--that you create within a shared interface. The Print Shop Essentials is jam-packed with features that offer flexibility over a range of design and production options, such as professional-quality digital clip art, Web-readiness, graphic development tools, and formatting selections. You can scroll between panels and slides on a multipage project using arrows at the bottom of the screen, add custom graphics and effects, and even touch up imported photos. By the time you're ready to choose between regular and professional printing, the memory of the program's slow, cumbersome installation process will have long been forgotten.

The Print Shop

The Print Shop is a basic desktop publishing software package developed in the early 1980s by Brøderbund. It was unique in that it provided libraries of clip-art and templates through a simple interface to build signs, posters and banners with household dot-matrix printers. Over the years the software has been updated to accommodate changing file formats and printer technologies.

The original version was for the Apple II and created signs, cards, banners, and letterheads. Designed by David Balsam and programmed by Martin Kahn, it became one of the most popular Apple II titles of all time. Versions for the IBM PC, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit computers followed, as did a variant for the Apple IIGS. These versions were published in Europe by Ariolasoft.

In 1986 the first Apple Macintosh version was released. It featured graphics by Marney Morris and was the most powerful version at the time. It was popular in schools and contained a unique feature in which graphics could be transferred to or from a MacPaint file.

Graphics libraries were a hot item for The Print Shop, and came from Brøderbund and other vendors. Libraries were produced for the original version and continued to be rolled out as late as the 1990s.

The New Print Shop came out in 1988 for Apple II and DOS, and improved on the original. Print Shop Deluxe, for Mac, DOS, and Windows, followed in 1993. Deluxe used a new all-graphical interface still found in Print Shop programs today and allowed for creation of calendars. Print Shop Deluxe Companion added new modules and graphics, and the Ensemble version combined The Print Shop, the Companion, and several graphics libraries on one CD.

Many new versions of The Print Shop followed, such as Ensemble II. Now over 20 years old, Print Shop still generates printed greeting cards, banners, and signs. It has kept with the times by offering new types of printed output, including CD and DVD labels and inserts, iPod skins, and photo book pages. The latest PC version (23) is published by Brøderbund and it is available in both Print Shop Deluxe and Print Shop Pro Publisher Deluxe variants. For Mac OS X, the most recent version is 2.0, developed and published by Software MacKiev.