Broderbund's Print Shop Deluxe - An LGR Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Looking back at The Print Shop Deluxe by Brøderbund Software from 1993! Growing up in the 90s, I had an oddly fun time playing around with the program making lots of random signs, banners, cards, and calendars, simply because I could. And if nothing else, Cool Crab™
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Today I learned why "clip art" is called "clip art." Thanks Clint! LGR is my jam.
That's where cut and paste comes from too. Cutting a piece of paper, then you used paste and glued it somewhere.
I shall refer to them as Clint Art from now on.
I scrolled down to make this exact comment LOL!
I’m 45.. and today I learned something
@@TerranigmaQuintet Why not _Clint Fart_ ?
"...and what do you want to be when you grow up Clint?"
"The sort of man who owns multiple colour printers!"
:)
A man’s worth is measured in how many color printers he has. 😉
This is entirely foreign to me, as my experience with printers has me wanting to own as few of them as possible.
We must never forget that Cool Crab was born in that program!
Wasn't made, it gave birth to cool crab.
And later on he landed a work with Prodigy
There was something magical about printing things back in the day. The ability to create something digitally and then have it materialize physically was almost too much for my little brain to comprehend. Man I loved printing stuff.
Printing stuff was like a game all of its own.
I made Sooooo many cd covers 🤣
i have it still last time whan i printed my map for an ttrpg. and with 3d print too.
its still amazing, almost no one i know owns a working printer
I've been 3D printing for about 8 years now, and I still feel that way when I design something on a screen and a few hours later am holding it. :)
LOVED Print Shop Deluxe. I fondly remember begging my aunt to use her Windows 98 PC to play around with PSD whenever I was at my cousin’s house. She would let me on the one condition that I didn’t actually ever print anything. 😅 I didn’t care, I just wanted to create stuff and now I work in an actual print shop creating stuff for a living. 😍
I also remember my aunt using this program for all her greeting cards. It was a very 90s thing to do. 😅
So, I actually never knew that was what clip art actually meant. It makes sense, but it feels weird after 30something years having this revealed to me.
LGR is so calming, I've been stressed out lately, thank you LGR
Yeah, I also get that calm feeling
Glad you are able to catch a brief break and I hope you find yourself in less stressful situations soon :) I agree, always a lovely break with these uploads.
Lately = 1½ year?
@@joezep thank you
I miss those simpler times too
I love apps of the Windows 3.1 era. And I miss the feeling of seeing screenshots of apps in magazines and imagining how cool said apps would be. Apps on tap isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Now you install an app which you love for them to then update it a week later in the background which changes everything you liked about it..
@@zakofrx This is why OTA updates should become obsolete.
I love LGR's appreciation for the simple office stuff in life.
So much nostalgia... I wasted a lot of time in Print Shop Deluxe in the exact same way. Printed my best creations on the dot matrix printer.
You were not alone Clint, you were not alone...
Clint's writing in this episode was sublime. The feeling of something touching my soul is very rare these days. Especially on youtube. Damn good stuff!
Entertainment value 10. Actual script writing, not so much. "What a cool crab! Isn't he cool? So cool! he's got sunglasses and a can a soda. And he's cool crab!" -not exactly Shakespeare. "touching your soul?" Learn to give a compliment without a forceful sucking sound. We'll all be better off.
@@squirlmy "Thinking back, it really was a kind of childhood escape, a digital destination where I could ignore the external world for a moment and create my own reality within the confine of an 8.5x11 inch sheet of dead tree material."
Yeah you can pick one of the joyful wordplay like the crab one, and calling me a forceful sucking sound maker or whatever you want. It still resonate with me so much. If you don't like it... Too bad.
I loved Print Shop back in the 80s! Peeling off the dot edges was definitely asmr! Hi from Eugene, Oregon home of Broderbund!
If you’ve never spent an evening printing a barely legible banner on a wall-length accordion of tractor-feed paper, you just haven’t lived. :-D
And you’ll never know the kind of peace you experience when the last part of the last page finishes on a dot matrix that has been running for over an hour.
I used Print Shop on the Mac to make my high school graduation announcement cards instead of buying them. That was a huge time suck and they looked like farts but I did get a lot of compliments for my unique cards. I printed them on fancy paper on the school’s laser printer (at $0.15/page). I also used to make banners using the dot matrix on the old Apple IIe. Good times!
Was literally just watching Gaming Historian’s video on Brøderbund’s U-Force for the NES
Same!
Yup.
Dang!. Same here
This video just reminded me of it. Watched it yesterday, though.
yeah i also thought it was kinda funny to see them come up in both of those videos released yesterday!
"Congrats on the UFO Sighting!"
I'm dying... it's nice to know I wasn't the only one who used to print nonsensical things in Print Shop and think it was hilarious!
I had this growing up.
Almost seem magical printing what you did on the computer.
This brings me back. When 4 computers were physically connected to one dot matrix printer using a parallel port switch and had to select A, B, C or D, depending which computer you were on.
Middle school vibes all day, thanks for that flashback!
My Grammy used her computer almost exclusively for this software, and was still using a win95 pc as late as 2010 just so she could keep using the version she was used to. Every holiday and birthday card in my childhood was made with this and she was so proud of them. She would get "the good paper" too.
My Grandmother was a JW. Like all Witnesses she wanted to share her faith. However, she was disabled and could not go door to door. So, she used the post office.
Print Shop Deluxe was the program she used to compose her envelopes and letters. It also became her favorite tool for greeting cards to friends and family. She continued to use and update the program for years, She had at least one version of the program for windows 3.11, 95, and XP.
Not being pc savvy, I was sometimes called on to help her install the programs or figure out why the card or letter, was printing sideways.
She passed away in 2012. I just watched the Vintage Tech RUclipsrs Discussion Panel | VCFMW 2021, when you mentioned this video, I decided to watch it as well.
Thank you for bringing back some good memories.
9:05 I'm quite surprised that Print Shop Deluxe is Y2K compliant.
There was a Y2K-patch for 3.1. Maybe PSD uses the windows calendar function.
I remember unplugging the computer back then before 2000 hit.
Clint Basinger is the only person that can make an entertaining video about a printing software suite. And I much appreciated it, sir.
Ah, yes! Print Shop Deluxe was my go-to time-waster between RollerCoaster Tycoon and Sierra 3D Pinball!
Man, this was totally my thing back in the day, too! I played around with the original "Print Shop" at school and my aunt's house, when I could, mostly using the clipart editor to redesign that old timey car into various hotrods, then finding excuses to use those hotrods on signs and banners.
Later, I was able to get "The New Print Shop" and "The New Print Shop Companion" for MS-DOS, and even later "The Print Shop Deluxe" for MS-DOS. That beach scene was one of my favorite backgrounds, along with that haunted house. When we got our first color printer in 1994, I used (wasted?) a lot of color ink just printing out "stationary" with those and other nifty backgrounds, borders, and more. My parents told me to stop wasting supplies, too.
I can't count how many birthday cards were made by my, by my aunt, by a friend who had The Print Shop, and others, exchanged between us over the 80's and 90's. I even kept my (monochrome) dot matrix printer as long as I did just so I could still print out banners. I think the last time was for a friend's college graduation in 2007ish.
The personal history you have with this program is so wholesome. Thanks for sharing.
Moreso than any other video I've watched of yours, this hits me in the nostalgia buttons. I spent so much paper on the original for the Apple II and later the Deluxe. Through half the video I was basically a real life version of the Leo DiCaprio pointing meme
I'm so glad I found this channel! I love listening to people talk about stuff like this, despite the fact that I'm terrible with tech related things.
The fact that Clint has a sense of humor, a buttery smooth voice, and is a fellow North Carolinian only adds to it.
Being a wee bit older, I had a legit copy of the original for PC one, that ran in DOS. I also had more than one color inkjet printer by the time Print Shop Deluxe came around. The one lesson I still fondly remember, though? If you don't use a color inkjet at least once a week? The print head dries up, and must be replaced to use again. Pricy. I now have a good old black & white laser printer instead. For color? I just go to Kinko's and use their $50,000 color machine.... for a modest fee, of course. Still worth it.
This was my jam at my Grandma's place when i was 8 or 9. Thanks for the memories man!
I had a old monochrome Epson Equity-II with DOS that I regularly played with GW-Basic and Lotus 123. But my grandmother had Window 3.1 with Print Shop. When I went to her house, Print Shop and Hotdog Stand color schemes and Arcade wallpaper all day.
I still remember the first time, as a kid, making a card with Print Shop. Usually we would have to make something for a relatives birthday or something. I remember being badgered by my mom that I had to make something for my grandmother's birthday tomorrow - OR ELSE. All while she was sitting with my sisters with paper and crayons out on the table each making creations. I on the other hand said "Ya Ya". Popped in the disk in the 1541 and fired up Print Shop. I actually made an envelop and didn't show it to anyone until I gave it to my grandmother the next day. The Awes the next day when she opened it is ingrained in my memories. And the card being passed around all the adults amazed at the fact that a kid made this with a computer. Was an easy go to for a while - well until my mom started to demand I put some effort into customizing it later on.
nothing's ever good enough for parents is it XD
The nostalgia of computers and tech seems endless and i love it. Im happy that its providing you an income.
Ahh, my mom used to tell me I was wasting ink in printshop, too. I remember making these little newspapers about my simcity towns. Now I'm all grown up and can print as much as I want... but I never do. Guess I had my zine phase too early in life, lol
Love the old 80s and 90s clip art... simpler times
I grew up in the early 90s in Finland and these old vintage software reviews bring back memories. Those chunky tabs and overall 90s aesthetic really is something.
Brings back memories of visiting electronic stores with my dad and admiring all the latest PC tech and games such as Quake. Reading PC magazines with game and tech reviews. Good times.
YES! This is so amazing that you cover this. My dad bought a printer that had this packaged in with it, together with... Myst. Yeah, I basically spend all my time divided between these two. I made so many posters for fake festivals, but when I got older, I started to use it for invites for birthday parties and the like. Good times, good memories.
Man, Print Shop Deluxe was probably the most used program on my family's 3.1 NEC machine back in the early to mid 90s. My mom would just steal huge things of paper from work and buy extra ink and myself and my 3 younger brothers would print dozens of pages of stuff a day. It's such a simple thing but it was so new and magical back to easily whip up graphics and print them. We had banners all over our house, stuff all over our walls, and of course would print insulting pages to leave on each other's pillows. We actually used it for real stuff, too, my mom would run the school science fair and print up dozens of banners for everything, not to mention every holiday card came out of a printer. Great memories, thanks Clint!
In the end, most people, especially kids, just want to create something. They want to see what they can do, be it by pen and paper or by playing with something like The Print Shop Deluxe. Even something like MS Word Word Art was always exciting because it gave a feeling that you were doing something special.
I just love how Clint leaves a 10 sec of the outro music so everyone can look it up. (Observations · From Now On
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When I was a kid we had some print shop type software on my dad's Commodore Colt - One of the pre-made designs was a fist slamming a desk with text that read something along the lines of "I NEED MY COFFEE!!!" I've been trying to find this software for years, if anyone out there knows what I'm talking about let me know!
Wowwwww completely forgot how many hours I wasted on the Windows 95 version of Print Shop Deluxe! Every birthday, Christmas, whatever card a relative got from me in the 90s was whipped up in this bad boy. Thanks as always, Clint!
"Congrats on the UFO sighting" okay that got me.
OMG! I used print blank receipts for whole condo flats all night long. Everyone used call me "computer guy" then in late 1980s
Thanks @LGR
Everybody in my class had a sign printed with Printshop on their room door in the early 90s. Printed on almost exactly the same Star printer in the school‘s computer room.
Every middle class family event in the early-mid 90s had a Print Shop banner. A detail that I feel is a massive oversight in movies and TV.
Hello, LGR!
I love your content. Unlike others, you actually strive to be entertraining and interesting.
Keep it up!
Print Shop was great but as a kid I'd play with it for hours, no wonder I'm now a graphic designer lol. The sound of that printer at the end is just lovely 🖤🤍
Back in the 80s there was a printer manufacturer called 'Legend' that made a line of dot matrix printers where the print elements were square in shape as opposed to round (or dot) in shape. A friend of mine had a Legend 880 model printer, and when he printed items from the Print Shop from his Commodore 64 they came out very sharp due the different shape of the print elements. I have never found one of these printers on eBay, it would be awesome if LGR could find one :-)
I used my mom’s copy of Print Shop Deluxe in the early 2000s to make personalized Christmas cards for every single one of my friends and teachers. I absolutely loved it. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, Clint!
The Corel Draw! 5 clipart book is still one of my favorite things to idly thumb through. Has been since we got that software around 1995.
Great video as always! The amount of research and effort you put into your retrospective videos definitely shows in your channel. Well done!
Thank you!
Man, I look forward to your videos every Friday. This one was nostalgic for me for sure. I know it wasn’t the same version, but I used the crap out of PSD for my dads Commodore 64 back in the day.
This is my favorite channel. Thanks for all you do.
I spent so many hours in Print Shop and looking through all the clip art books when I was a kid 😭
This is the sort of software I would have loved to play around with as a kid back in the day. Thanks for the nostalgia!
On a side note, Broderbund also developed a "World Atlas" software that was one of my absolute favorite things to use way back in the day. I lost the disk for it one day and I've spent 15+ years trying to remember the name of the company that made it, and your video finally made me remember it. Thanks again, Clint!
5:48 Clint must have freaked out watching the film Contact with this on his wall for years. Takes a Close Encounters turn...
When I was a kid my first Sunday job was helping out a family friend run his car boot sale stall (flea market to Americans!) and I could spend hours designing signs for the stall in software like this and Microsoft Publisher, hours of browsing clip art and jazzing things up with word art, peak excitement was reached when my parents bought me a laminator for my birthday so I could laminate my creations which I thought was dark magic at the time!
A birthday party in the 90's just wasn't a party unless it had a "Happy Birthday" printed with about 6 feet of dot matrix computer paper.
Finally, someone that gets me. I spent hours in Print Shop! I thought it was so cool making cards for my friends!
Ahhh, the satisfying beep of a finished print job on a Star dot matrix reminds me of fastidiously printing inlay covers for mix tapes on Wordsworth on the Amiga
Well, this took me back. My mom, who had M.S., used Print Shop and American Greeting software to print out greeting cards for all seasons (and even worked in our church at one point printing out the announcements. I later inherited the programs she had and also the clip art books for at least one of them. Good memories there.
Ah, yes. Clip Art was lots of fun back then. I used to print them out at my mom's workplace. At times people apparently got annoyed that I took up the queue with that nonsense. In fact, at one point someone made a very stern comment to me, and so I stopped. I would have to be satisfied with seeing them on the monitor from then on.
Oh man this was a fun trip down memory lane. I only got to use this at school because my family didn't have a computer. Old school printers were so loud, but that noise was oddly therapeutic. You knew what every masterpiece you created was shortly on it's way to becoming real. Ah memories.
I remember back in around 87-90, one of our managers at the time loved to muse over PrintShop Pro (?...or was it Deluxe?) on his Macintosh B/W computer in his office, ready to print banners to advertise up-coming sales, or events in our electronics department at the BX I worked at back then (RAF Upper Heyford, UK - USAAF base).... We had to do all promotion stuff ourselves back then- no Visual Merchandising teams existed in those days... so PrintShop did the job!!
This manager always used the corny 'stock' clip-art so the banners always looked like what anyone else in base housing used to advertise yard-sales, etc, and I always they looked pretty crap really (he had little imagination, and was an arsehole!), but credit where due, those banners still attracted the customers to the store and department !!
Yeah... that's how things were back in 1987 - ish! Those lovingly remembered primitive computer tools put to their best use!
Oh, and in case anyone asks, the 'BX' (US Air Force), is also known as 'PX' by US army servicemen.... it's a large department store for exclusive use by US Air Force and Army, and now Space Force soldiers, airmen, etc, and also veterans; located on US military bases World wide.... I have now had the privilege to work in the electronics sections of the BX, on two of these bases in the UK over the past 35 years: RAF Upper Heyford until '92 when the base closed, and RAF Lakenheath up until now! Proud to serve those who serve and protect us...... :-)
Thank you, sir! This was a real treat to relive a huge part of my childhood.
Now that I think of it, probably i prefer Windows 3.1 over Windows 95, it kinda keeps that 90’s essence more, less colors or interfaces, no sounds, just paintbrush and minesweeper..... 1994 memories, giant printers with ONLY shades of grey and special paper with holes, playing pac-man from a diskette 💾 you could only access before launching windows, on the ms-dos, with some weird codes I don’t know how a 6 year old could remember...... although I remember I had to type “win” on Ms-Dos to start Windows 3.1
the way you describe having fun on this program as a kid was exactly my experience too. I loved this program.
WOW memories! Just SEEING the box brought back much of my youth in the 1980s. The euphoric feelings of CREATING something on a computer, outside of school, for nobody but my family, friends and me. Exciting. A great video.
My elemntary school in the late 80's had Print Shop in the computer lab. Loved printing banners to a that dot matrix printer with the connecter paper. That brings me back.
When I saw the title I was like "how can this ever be worth watching?" And now I'm rummaging through my software library to find Print Show Deluxe.
Why is it so satisfying to make the crispiest fold?? That hit me right in the feels man. Thank you for sharing such intimate memories. It amazes me how similar people can be- Clint from the USA and me from Poland. Ah, the magic of technology!
Wonderful to see our old pal Cool Crab again.
Haha wow seeing the IIGS Print Shop Deluxe and the Party Pack just sent a flood of memories into my first forays into graphic design and layout. I used to LOVE designing with clip art and neat fonts for friends parties and my own Lemonade stand jr entrepreneurial moves 😆 Those banners were so much fun to make.
Oh my GOSH! As soon as you showed the Apple II version, I was teleported back in time to elementary school, spending indoor recess playing with The Print Shop on one of the school's Apple IIe macines and ImageWriter printer. Such memories! Thank you for this heartfelt tribute to days gone by. Felt it right in the chest.
I have very early memories of playing on my grandpas old computer and using a program like this. I cannot remember the program and had no idea what computer he had but this is the closest I have found. I think that he has a windows 3.1 or something around that time. He worked for ibm and had that old computer until he got an XP. I never saw that old program again but have been on the hunt for that lost memory. Thank you Clint for helping me put the pieces together
Thanks for this review that brought back many memories. We had a copy of PSD, and I also spent a lot of time making random things...which led to me becoming the designated person to make cards, invitations, signage, etc for the entire extended family.
Thanks for the memories! My family started with The New Print Shop back in the day, on our 8088 with CGA display (the software ran in monochrome mode only) and trusty old Epson MX-80 tractor-feed dot matrix printer. My sister and I had tons of fun with it, despite how limited its capabilities were. When we eventually upgraded to Print Shop Deluxe on a Windows 3.1 PC with a color (!) inkjet, it was such a massive step up - we really did feel like we were living in the future! (though we did kinda miss the ability to print continuous banners and the ritual of tearing off the edge strips)
Back in the late mid to late 90’s faculty at my school loved using the clipart for calendars, newsletters and announcements. Thanks for bringing back some memories.
Every single family birthday had a ridiculous dot matrix-printed banner from Print Shop Deluxe. Great stuff.
Yes 😂 at work too
Yes! I remember playing around a lot with this exact version as a kid, making birthday cards for my family and banners "just because", all on our HP DeskJet 500C. That gave us the choice of using a CMY color, or black ink cartridge... so if you chose color, all your black lines came out as like a muddy green. We didn't get the satisfaction of tearing off the edges of tractor-feed paper for the banners, but instead we got to fold things back at the margins and tape each sheet together juuuuust right.
Those long banners take me back to high school 1984-89. Yay, Cool Crab!
late 80s to late 90s had such awesome software. I miss those days.
This brings back memories I remember using print shop on the apple 2 back in 1987 when I was 6 going crazy with making cards and printing them out at school and taking them home to my family 😎
Thank for the nostalgia! This didn't even make me feel old!
I had this as a kid and did projects and soooo many cards for everyone!! 🤣 Thanks for the walk down memory lane!!
Oh man i'm always so excited when i receive a notification from LGR
Clint, you're guilty of making me spend my money on old hardware just for fun
Thanks LGR, your videos are a warm blanket for my soul.
This brings back memories of my cousin, brother, and I printing out banners some time in the late 80s for my grandpa's birthday on an Apple IIc printing with an Apple Image Writer 1. I acquired the very same Apple IIc and printer a couple of years ago, but they need a total restoration. Once I get that done, I hope to recreate the banner that I had made all those years ago on that very hardware. RIP Grandpa.
This reminded me of when we first got a PC, a Packard Bell running Win 98 we spent so much time playing Disney’s “The Magic Artist” and the hours we spent using that program. And printing clip art with our Canon BJC inkjet printer!
My grandma printed sooooo many 'happy birthday' dot-martix banners with this in the mid 90s. This brings back good memories.
Man, this is a part of my childhood I forgot... I remember making up computer games in windows paint, and then I actually had a business "designing" and selling quarter folder getting cards to family and friends....
Makes me want to make a quarter folder card just thinking about it... ❤️
Oh God, the nostalgia. I screwed around with this software so much bank in the day. Thank you.
This is so much a trip down memory lane. We used to make stupid banners and hang them all over the house. My dad had the same dot-matrix printer at his office as he had at home so we went through SO MANY ribbons and he would just bring home replacements.
My first exposure to dot-matrix printers and fanfold paper was at school (lab full of TRS-80s!) where the teacher called the tear-off perforations "squigglies." Even today, I still think of them as squigglies.
Man, this just reminded me that clip-art was a thing we actually dedicated time to learning in computer classes in the mid/late 90’s to early 00’s.
Ahhh the sound of a dot matrix printer, that really takes me back.
Thanks for stepping it up over the years, just excellent research and presentations, I loved Print Shop and your video reminded me of my youth. Bravo!
My grandma made greeting cards every year for birthdays and Christmas with PSD running on Windows 7 all the way up till she passed in 2018. Still have the set of floppy disks she had to install the original copy long ago. It’s so nostalgic seeing the designs coming out of it. I think I’ve got a cool crab birthday card hiding around somewhere…
Wow, this has awoken so many childhood memories! I did exactly the same and spent many happy hours making random posters, greetings cards and flyers for school.
This video brought back so many memories! Simpler times!!!
I did this as a kid too! Broderbund Scrapbook Factory on an old hand-me-down XP machine around 2008ish. Its absurd how fun it can be just exploring all the clipart that these programs come with.
So much nostalgia!! Print Shop Deluxe started me off on my digital and graphic design career path! Upgraded to Jasc Paint Shop pro, then eventually Photoshop. Awesome stuff.