The Print Shop
The facts below are what the maker publishes about The Print Shop, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From The Print Shop's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| The Print Shop Deluxe 8 | $69.99, paid once | Windows 11, 10, or 8 · one PC; optional 3-PC Family Edition for an additional $20 |
| The Print Shop Professional 8 | $99.99, paid once | Windows 11, 10, or 8 · one PC; optional 3-PC Business Edition for an additional $30 |
The facts
Each one read from The Print Shop's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The Professional edition is described as designed for at-home and small-business professionals.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Commercial assets
- The Professional page describes royalty-free professional backgrounds, images, and templates for commercial-use projects.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Contacts
- Users can store addresses, phone numbers, and special dates and add contact fields to projects.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Design tools
- It includes text, photo-editing, and page-layout tools, with photo color correction, cropping, gradients, shadows, and a custom border maker.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Professional features
- Professional 8 adds font embedding in PDFs, import of layered Photoshop PSD files, and master pages.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Publishing
- It supports various printers, paper sizes, and duplex printing, and can save projects as PDF or publish to HTML for websites, social media, and email.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- The Print Shop is desktop publishing software for home office, creative, advertising, and small-business design projects.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The product page says forum moderators can assist with questions; the store lists phone support at 1-800-395-0277, Monday through Friday, 8am–4:30pm CST.checked 8 Oct 2026
- System requirements
- The listed system requirements specify Windows 11, Windows 10, or Windows 8, plus 4 GB RAM, 4 GB disk space, and broadband internet access.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Templates and assets
- The product page lists over 7,000 pre-made templates and over 265,000 pieces of clip art and photos.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Version 8 additions
- The product pages list a QR code generator, merge and flatten objects, speech-to-text, emojis and symbols, and PNG, TIFF, and BMP export.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Novato, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker identity
- The store footer identifies Encore Software LLC as the copyright holder, and the About page says Broderbund began in the early 1980s in Eugene, Oregon.checked 8 Oct 2026
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