                      Print Shop Deluxe Companion

                             by Tony Curro


Print Shop Deluxe Companion is a program that will run in conjunction
with Print Shop Deluxe v1.2 for Windows, or as a stand alone
application. You do not need PS Deluxe to run Companion.

Last month I reviewed the many things you can do with Print Shop Deluxe.
Companion takes this several steps further with additional features.

Print Shop Deluxe Companion is excellent for home, small and mid-sized
businesses, schools, and organizations. The program allows users to
easily create and print certificates, envelopes, business cards, and
post cards.

Paper Direct, a leading mail-order firm that has specialty papers and
more, and which I reviewed last  month, has a collection business cards,
envelopes, certificates and post cards. Companion comes with formats for
these preprinted forms. It makes using any of these products a snap to
fill in. I created a business card. I filled in the information for one
card, and when I printed, it printed out a whole page of ten cards.

In addition, you can create your own designs choosing from:

* Over 350 graphics, most in color, that print smoothly in color or
black and white.
* 25 fully scaleable TrueType fonts (Windows)
* Over 3500 combinations of text shapes and styles to create special
effects.
* Graphics can be imported in the following formats: MS-DOS -- EPS,
TIFF, and PCX; Windows -- WMF, TIFF, EPS, and BMP.

Other features include:

* Unique Stamp and Postmark graphics.
* Ability to create Timepiece, Initial Cap, and Number graphics.
* Change type size, style, and color on a character-by-character basis;
customize text by rotating, moving, and resizing text blocks.
* Watermark text and famous signatures for certificates.
* Name and Address List Manager for addressing multiple envelopes and
post cards, and for printing certificates for several recipients.
* Graphics Library Manager. Merge and rename graphics for creating
personal graphics libraries.

Print Shop Deluxe Companion is as easy to use as Print Shop Deluxe. It
is a useful program that, when used with Print Shop Deluxe, allows you
to create a complete line of personalized stationary. It supports
virtually all low-cost color printers, and works with all popular laser,
ink-jet and dot matrix printers.

Print Shop Deluxe Companion is available in both DOS and Windows
versions. Use it alone. Use it with Print Shop Deluxe. Either way you
will be glad that you purchased it.


Product Information

Print Shop
Deluxe Companion

Street Price -- about $39.95

Broderbund Software
500 Redwood Blvd.
P.O. Box 6121
Novato, CA 94948-6121
415-382-4400
415-382-4582 (FAX)
