Asking for advice....

[Iowawegian]

I have to purchase a software program for our office that has greeting cards, etc. You all know I am not a computer wiz...so I need some advice.

What program is easy for someone like me to install/use. My computer is a Vista. We send a lot of corporate birthday cards, Christmas wishes but also personal cards. I would also like to be able to use photographs that we have taken and use them in the cards.

Anyone have any advice? I really need an easy program to use.

[utadventure]

My wife isn't big in to computers and she has used a program called Printmaster. Not very expensive and use is pretty straight forward.

 

Dave

[Kurt]

Take a look at this link. Lots of choices, always changing with seasons and such. It is a pay site but affordable.

 

http://www1.msn.americangreetings.com/printables/index.pd

 

Reread your post and think it will cover the bases including pictures.

[Cinderella]

I have hallmark card studio on my pc.....cards of all kinds....can be printed or sent via email....you can add your own pics...design other things too....stationary...and on and on.

I use it a lot to help save money on buying cards...some of them are getting so expensive.

 

I think its very easy to use.

 

I have the 2004 version.

I dont know what they have available more recent..just make sure it will run on vista

 

i just did a search on ebay there are some versions there for decent prices

http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZhallmarkQ20cardQ20studioQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

[Iowawegian]

Thanks for the responses! I'll look into them. Appreciate the help!!

[Maritimer]

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Belltech Greeting Cards Designer v5.1.1

“Belltech Greeting Card Designer presents a lot of the drafting and drawing tools you’d see in drawing programs, plus a few cute extras.”

Use this Greeting card software to create your stunning greeting cards easily. Belltech Greeting Card Designer, a feature-rich professional quality greeting card software, helps you create amazing greeting cards in a matter of minutes and email or print them right-away on any Windows compatible printer.

# Design from a variety of templates, poems.

# Put your own photos and text.

# Print card in your own printer.

# Email card (e greeting card) as an image file attachment.

Design personalized cards for Birthdays, Wedding, New Year, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day or any special occasion. The program comes with tons of card templates, clip art, background pictures to get you started. For fast output, you just choose a template, personalize the messages and print, that’s all; Also, use shapes like heart, call-out, moon, sun etc. to make your card even more interesting.

Product Highlights:

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* Use your own clip-arts, logo and photos: We supply you with many graphics that you can use, but don’t think that it is all you can use. Get your own picture, family photo, clip-art and design the perfect card you want.

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* Convenient Design tools: Draw rectangle/triangle/circle or use freehand lines and shapes to create callout and lovely designs.

* Stunning Background: Use the supplied backgrounds or use your own. Anything is possible and is easy.

* Use Color blends: This is a unique feature of this greeting card software. You can now have a color blend the way you want, the control is in your hand. Remember, this is not a static background image, but a filled shape whose color-blend and texture you control completely.” Possibilities are endless!

* Supports any printing papers: Supports all standard greeting card papers(Half-fold and quarter-fold) from Avery and other suppliers.

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-64 MB of RAM and about 40 MB of hard drive space.

 

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cheers