Hallmark Card Studio - www.hallmarksoftware.com
I purchased the “Hallmark Card Studio”. It was on sale and no this is not a paid review. It's just one of the programs I use now. So here is basically how to use Hallmark Card Studio. With Christmas just around the corner I decided to print up a few simple cards to distribute.
Open the program and make your selection on the opening menu screen. I clicked on “Holidays”.
Then I looked for “Christmas” on the left-hand menu and then choose your audience, I clicked on “Anyone”. On the right-hand side then you get a series of thumbnails of the cards available for you to scroll down through.
I selected the one with the “kittens” and “Merry Christmas” in red. Clicking on preview shows you what the card will look like. Including the verse inside. Close preview and click on “Open”.
This takes you to the editing screen that allows to to customize the card as seen fit.
In the “Let's Look At:” section you can select the outside or inside of the card.
Down the left hand menu buttons you can add your own text, greetings, clip art, photos, etc. When finished you can print, email, save and share.
On the right-hand side is the card itself. You can change anything here. Clicking on the words, in my example, “Christmas”, it brings up a menu bar across the top to adjust the words, font, colour, size and so on. You can click on the picture to adjust it or even replace it with your own.
Then I switched to the inside by clicking on the appropriate view back up in the “Let's Look At” section. Again, clicking on the text, you can change it. Or click on the “text” button in the left-hand menu and add your own text. In my case my name. You get the same text formatting bar at the top.
Once everything is done to your satisfaction it's time to “print”. Click on the “print” button, left-hand menu. Now, surprise, surprise, I had a problem. My printer information wasn't showing. I originally set this up with a printer I no longer have. I had to go up to the “File” menu and click on “Print Setup”. There in the “Name” section I just clicked on it (it as on a PDF writer) and switched it to my Canon MG2500 series printer.
For “Paper Size” I switched it to A4. The I clicked on “Quarter-fold”. Everything printed on one side instead of two.
I unchecked “Print Borderless”. I don't really mind borders as long as everything is centred and even.
Paper Source – Rear Tray.
Number of copies. One at first, just to test.
You can click on “Printer Configuration” button to change printer options or click on “Configure Two-sided Printing” if you are printing up on a “single-folded” sheet of paper. This is a wizard that will walk you through setting up your printer for proper printing on both sides of a single page.
Otherwise, click on the “Print Now” button on the bottom of the screen.
The final result.
