Product Description

The Print Shop 21 Deluxe offers the best in total personal creativity. 320,000+ images & graphics PLUS! 17,500+ Project Templates including all new Ipod Tattoos! Packed with new features and tools, you have everything you need for satisfy your creative side. An advanced photo editor provides expert editing results to make your photos perfect every time. Easily add them to any project, create slideshows, burn to CD, or resize for your mobile phone. Enhanced photo quality printing and new borderless print features mean your projects will have the refined look you want! Even manage your time with Calendar Creator Express, the address book and mail merge for effortless mailings every time!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1854 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 32279
• Released on: 2005-08-24
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 2.50 pounds

Features

• Everything you need to create premium print and photo projects
• 17,500+ Project Templates including all new Ipod Tattoos!
• 320,000+ images & graphics PLUS!
• Packed with new features and tools, you have everything you need for satisfy your creative side.
• Enhanced photo quality printing and new borderless print features mean your projects will have the refined look you want!

Amazon.com Product Description
If you're ready to add a creative touch to your photos and other digital images, then Print Shop 21 Deluxe is for you. With over 320,000 images and graphics, plus another 17,500 project templates, Print Shop 21 Deluxe gives you everything you need to get started. An advanced photo editor offers expert editing results to make your photos perfect every time. You can easily incorporate them into any project, create slide shows, burn them to a CD, or even resize for your mobile phone. An enhanced photo-quality printing and new borderless print features mean your projects will have the refined look you want! Photo Shop 21 Deluxe even helps you manage your time with Calender Creator Express, and its new address book and mail merge feature give you effortless mailings every time.

Customer Reviews

Version 21....WHY ?????
I've been using Print Shop for many, many years, primarily to make greeting cards and note cards. I've upgraded as upgrades became available and today upgraded from version 20 to version 21 deluxe. I also use Norton A/V which has been around for many years and is in very widespread use.

It seems that the two are almost terminally incompatible. PS v. 21 has many projects that are only available online and must be downloaded. There are many of these in the Printed Greeting cards and constitute all of the projects in the Photo Picture Cards and the Creative Touch cards.

Although, at the price charged for this software, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE ON THE CD"S AND SHOULD NOT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL DOWNLOADING, when downloading is tried, you will get the message "The online server can not deliver the file".

When you search their nearly non-existent technical support section, for a solution, you are told "It has been found that certain software security systems do not allow communication between your computer and Broderbund's file servers. You will need to contact your security software's company for information on how to allow this communication or SIMPLY DISABLE THE SOFTWARE TO ALLOW IT." (Emphasis mine)

It thus seems that the makers of PS 21 (Broderbund? Encore? RiverDeep?) could not be bothered to work out these incompatibilities with one of the most popular and widely installed anti-virus software programs on the market and put their program on the market anyway. Their solution to the inevitable incompatibility which they knew full well existed: Simply disable your anti virus protection......and risk having your system destroyed.

Is this worth paying them another $42 for a questionable upgrade?

I plan to uninstall v.21 and return it tomorrow; stay with v. 20 and cross Broderbund off my list for all future purchases of this type of software.

MANY BUGS NO SUPPORT
I have owned and used all printshop versions. This is the worst out of the box. I purchased version 21 for epson r300 printing and this is the only thing that works. When I tried to merge addresses with a card project, the program crashed. The solution in the knowledge base did not work. After 2 request over 2 weeks, I received an email that informed me that they did not at this time have a solution. The work around was to print labels without pictures. The sole purpose of this program is to print labels with pictures. I finally reinstalled 20 to be able to print lables with picture with addresses. There were several other problems and again the solution in the knowledge base did not work.
This acts like a beta version. It appears to be released too soon. Support is terrible. Wait for a later version of 21 which hopefully fixes these problems.

Broderbund Print Shop 21 Deluxe
This is the worst print program I have ever used. I had 20 and loved it but it was misplaced. The box says all kinds of things on 21 that are impossible because you have to down load the images, most of them, from the internet and gee, guess what! They are impossible to download! I am totally dissapointed and angry. Also you cannot get help from Broderbund. There is no such thing as customer service there!