Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2007 [Old Version]
by Sierrahome
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Software Reviews of Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2007 [Old Version]
Customer Review: Another Quality Hallmark Product
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very pleased with the new 2007 Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe. I have owned previous versions of this product and for my needs, I am well satisfied. I especially like the ability to use suggested greetings and clip art to enhance my rubber stamped cards and scrapbooking projects. I have used this software to print banners and business flyers as well. It would be nice if multiple images could be contained in a text box. Maybe in the future there will be more enhancements to this product for easiser use. I am pleased with the card selection, verses and graphics. For non professionals, I believe you get more than a fair value for the price.Customer Review: Great but...
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent product, but unfortunately no business cards. That would have made it perfect. The ease of use is simple. Lots of downloads available too. I really love this software, especially the E-Cards.Customer Review: Unhappy Customer
Summary: 1 Stars
Card Studio 2007 has repeated many cards from Card Studio 2006. I bought this new program to have more of a selection but was very disappointed. Also is is very difficult to see the cards when they are bunched. You have to pick a card in order to read the front. Very time consuming.Customer Review: Still waiting for a fix....
Summary: 1 Stars
I contacted the program's customer service department when the cards in this program printed off center no matter what I did. I received an email saying that this was a known problem with the program and a fix would be available by the end of January. Mid-February I asked again about it as there had been no fix. That time they said it would be fixed by the end of February. I've used their previous programs w/out problems, just wanted more variety so added this one. Apparently not a good idea..... Customer Review: The most unstable software product ever.
Summary: 1 Stars
The card choices are large and the feature set of the program is great...
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We keep upgrading to new versions of the card software to get new cards and in the apparently vain hope that the developers of the software will someday get their act together.
To say that this software is unstable is the understatement of the year. On average, one out of three cards causes the software to crash, usually after it has printed page one (outside) and before printing page two (inside).
No problem you think? Well not really. If you print page one of the card and it crashes, of course you lose all of the personalizations but if you restart the program and redo the personalizations you have to print out a whole new card because the program won't let you only print out the inside of the card onto the already printed outside.
Sure, the dialog box has a drop down that says "Page 2 of 2" giving you the "impression" that you should be able to do this but even with this option selected, it proceeds to print out the card, the whole card, yet again.
Needless to say this results in a lot of card stock wastage and card stock is expensive.
We have a Dell Dimension with a huge hard drive, 2.6 GHz hyperthreaded P4, 1GB of memory, and are running Home XP with SP2, with a HP color laserjet printer on an Ethernet so I really don't think that the problem is that we don't have "enough computer"...
This is simply the most unstable software we have ever used, and has been so for three product updates. (Why did we buy the latest one? Well, it turns out that old versions of the card software seem to "go bad" all by themselves with card choices simply disappearing, and so the software forces you to either stop using it or upgrade.)
Go buy a set of markers instead, it will be far less frustrating. The Sierra Home developers should be embarrassed that they put out such an amazingly poorly designed product. Hallmark needs to get a new software developer...