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130 of 132 found the following review helpful:
 PrintMaster 2.0 - DON'T BUY IT!! Sep 28, 2009
By NTru
I have been a loyal Printmaster user for years. I have upgraded many times because of the ease of use and the variety of design elements available. I recently got a Mac so I purchased the new 2.0 version to use with my new Mac computer. WOW, AM I DISAPPOINTED. The product STINKS!!! Everything that I loved about the older versions is gone. First of all, you have to install all of the art onto your computer. This is a 23G program! But still, the templates are limited, the clip art is awful and I can't seem to layer them onto my own designs without the white background showing around the clip art, so if I have a colored background in my design, I can't get the clip art on my project without the white around it. I imagine it can be done because the white is not in the ready-made templates, but I can't seem to edit it out. If anyone knows how, please let me know. I can't copy and paste outside clip art into it either. It just puts a box with the name of the item and there is no way to activate the contents. As I said, I have been using PrintMaster products for a long time and I can usually figure out most software programs without a problem, but this version has me so frustrated that I will probably uninstall it from my computer. It is not worth the enormous amount of space it takes up. Sadly, I probably can't return the opened item so I am just going to have to eat the $39.99 I paid for this inferior version of a once-loved product. I will try to contact the company to see is there is a satisfaction guarantee, but I'm not hopeful. I would NOT recommend this version of PrintMaster.
UPDATE: Thank you Amazon for your great return policy. You sent a return shipment label and bar code immediatly when I asked to return for a refund on this Horrible Product. Initial shipping was free, so for less than $5 for return shipping, it is well worth it to be rid of PrintMaster 2.0. AMAZON IS THE BEST!
52 of 52 found the following review helpful:
HORRIBLE... do not buy this software! Oct 01, 2009
By Amazon Prime Fan
I have used Printmaster products for years. I have always been really happy with their products and have upgraded everytime they have come out with a new version. STAY AWAY FROM THIS VERSION. It is SLOW SLOW SLOW! If you want to search the clipart, it can take you 5 - 7 minutes to go through a search. Also, the thumbnails are so small, you can barely see the picture (in previous versions you could change the thumbnail size... I couldn't figure out how to do that in the new version) So, save your money and don't buy this product. You would be better off buying Printmaster 18 Platinum, which is a great product. I'm so disappointed, I will be asking Amazon for a refund. (Also, in case you are wondering, I have a brand new, high powered PC, so my computer is not the problem)
47 of 47 found the following review helpful:
VERY Disappointing! Oct 02, 2009
By C. Stanphill
I have been a big fan of PrintMaster for years. Their templates were straight-forward, easy to use, and personalize. But this product is very unintuitive. The biggest disappointment is the fact you can't print cards and other projects at home. What were they thinking?? The whole idea of such programs for the computer is to do-it-yourself. If I want professionally done cards, I will go to the store and buy one. The convenience of print-at-home is immediate gratification and usability. This is a huge disappointment. I asked for a refund from Amazon. Thank goodness for their understanding return policy.
22 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Bloated with redundant features. May 22, 2010
By T. Bux
This review is for installation on a Macintosh Computer.
Based on the way the product works by itself, I would give this a much higher rating. The features once installed are easy-to-use, powerful, and fun. You are able to make a wide assortment of products from menus, church bulletins and flyers (something I did effectively), invitations and more. The color matching tool, a eye dropper used to match colors in photos or clip-art, is effective and a great way to incorporate colors from existing work into new merged work. The software also has some photo editing capabilities, can crop, remove red eye, etc.
This is an all-new product. Work done with prior versions of Print Master will not work with this one. This is important to note. As I never used a previous version of Print Master I was unaffected by this, but I am sure if you used prior versions or are looking to upgrade, this will be worth noting.
My main points of contention with this software is that prior point of backwards compatibility as well as the installation. Coming in at close to 23 gigs, this is one huge piece of software. Installing it took nearly all of my free space left on my hard drive. The installation is three whole DVD disks. One for the main software and two for artwork. On it's front this is good, because many competing software products come with comparable functionality out of the box, but lack with art and add-ons this has, so that is a plus.
But in the end, most of the features you get on this come with computers already. Macs, for example, come with iPhoto that do all of the photo editing. If you happened to add on iWork you already have most of the features that this has in a smaller more integrated package.
All-in-all I gave this four (4) stars. I was torn. The product itself is very good and fun to use. The problem again lies with the size for installation and lack of backwards compatibility. If you had a lot of free disk space, didn't have software like iPhoto, iWork, or MS Publisher, this will be a good product for you. It is feature rich and easy to use. Otherwise, if you already have other similar products, avoid this.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
If you have Version 18, don't even think about getting this one Nov 11, 2009
By Geek's Mom
I have been using versions of PrintMaster for years, and I was just waiting for Version 19 to come out because I have basically worn out 18. Fortunately I read the description of 2.0 online before I bought it. 2.0 is not compatible with earlier PrintMaster versions--as in, it will not even read them! Somebody at Broderbund is ignoring a lesson Apple learned the hard way with the MAC--if you have to get all new software with a new machine, and you lose all of your old files because the old machine is totally incompatible with the new one, you're going to lose a lot of business. Broderbund just lost my business.
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