From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Print Shop
The Print Shop
The Print Shop to modify the original program; subsequent releases of
The Print Shop included built-in support for Companion.
In 1986 the first Apple Macintosh version was re-
leased. 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
Original Pixellite
author(s) were produced for the original version and continued to
be rolled out as late as the 1990s. User-produced graphics
Developer(s) Brøderbund were also commonly distributed by various user groups,
Initial 1984 and even submitted to disk magazines, such as the Soft-
release disk family of magazines.
Stable 23 / 2009
release The New Print Shop
Operating Windows, Mac OS X, Apple II (discontinued), The New Print Shop came out in 1988 for Apple II and
system Atari 8-bit (discontinued), DOS
DOS, and improved on the original. Print Shop Deluxe, for
(discontinued), Commodore 64
(discontinued) Mac, DOS, and Windows, followed in 1993. Deluxe used a
new all-graphical interface still found in Print Shop pro-
License Proprietary software grams today and allowed for creation of calendars. Print
Website Homepage Shop Deluxe Companion added new modules and graph-
ics, and the Ensemble version combined The Print Shop,
The Print Shop is a basic desktop publishing software the Companion, and several graphics libraries on one CD.
package developed in the early 1980s by Brøderbund. It Many new versions of The Print Shop followed, such
was unique in that it provided libraries of clip-art and as Ensemble II. Now over 20 years old, Print Shop still
templates through a simple interface to build signs, generates printed greeting cards, banners, and signs. It
posters and banners with household dot-matrix printers. has kept with the times by offering new types of printed
Over the years the software has been updated to accom- output, including CD and DVD labels and inserts, iPod
modate changing file formats and printer technologies. skins, and photo book pages.
The original version was for the Apple II and created On January 15, 2010, a new version for the PC sup-
signs, cards, banners, and letterheads. Designed by David porting Windows 7 titled The Print Shop 2.0 was released,
Balsam and programmed by Martin Kahn, it became one published by Encore, Inc.. This version is not backwards
of the most popular Apple II titles of all time. Versions compatible and has been poorly received. It is published
for the IBM PC, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit computers in Standard, Deluxe, and Professional variants.
followed, as did a variant for the Apple IIGS. These ver- To address Windows 7 support for pre-2.0 projects, an
sions were published in Europe by Ariolasoft. incremental release to the old line, The Print Shop Ver-
sion 23.1 was released in July 2010.
For Mac OS X, the most recent version is 2.0, devel-
The Print Shop Companion oped and published by Software MacKiev.
Companion,
The Print Shop Companion developed by Roland
Gustafsson and released in 1985, added a calendar fea-
ture, an updated graphic editor, font and border editors,
External links
and a "Creature Maker" game, as well as an expanded li- • The Print Shop for PC at Brøderbund website
brary of fonts, borders, and graphics. Initially, to use the • Mac OS X version of The Print Shop at Software
new fonts and borders in The Print Shop, Companion had MacKiev’s website
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Print Shop
Categories:
• Desktop publishing software
• Apple II software
• Atari 8-bit family software
• Commodore 64 software
• DOS software
• Mac OS software
• Windows software
• 1984 software
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