Need Professional Printing from old software

The below question and answers could be true for alot of older software. The option of using the freely available software to be able to make a PDF is file really the preferred solution. Then you can send your PDF file to Galleria Ventures for professional printing.

Question: ( found in forum)

I have The Print Shop Business Card Creator by Broderbund. It is about 2-3 years old. I recently installed it and created a card. I tried to convert it to a JPEG so my local copy center could print the cards. They could not open the file, and I cannot convert the card to a file they can open. Then I tried Broderbund's"Print Professionally" option on their website, which led me to "register for ExpressIt.com" and then when I followed that I'm just getting an error message (Error 301). It seems I cannot print these business cards and I feel it was a big waste of time and money.

Answer:

Your program is old and that is why it tries to take you to a site that no longer exists. However, your program is quite capable of creating a file that can be professionally printed. You are just unfamilar with how to use this program.

First of all, a JPG is not the preferred file format for professional printing - it'll do, but JPG is a lossy format. TIF is non-lossy.

Do you know for a fact that your JPG file is an uncorrupted JPG file? How did you send it to your local printer? E-mail attachment? On CD, floppy or portable USB drive? Can you open the JPG from this source? It could have been corrupted when writing to the CD or whatever.

And very importantly, did you export your image at 1050x600 pixels? If you exported it as JPG at the default pixel dimensions, all you have is a good web image with a resolution that is too poor for quality printing.

I suggest you try again, this time exporting as TIF and changing the pixel dimensions accordingly (300 dpi or better is the industry standard). Then test the file by opening it with Windows Picture Viewer. If it opens properly and you can read the properties of the file as 1050x600 pixels (or similar) then this file is ready to take to the printer.

------------------Another Option----------------

Convert the bus card project to a PDF. If your older program does not have the PDF convertor, you can download a free one at
www.cutePDF.com
There are two exe files you need to download and install. Search the threads on the forum for "cutePDF" for previous discussions regarding it.