GREETING CARD DESIGNER is a sophisticated program that allows you to design and print out on your Epson compatible printer, beautiful greeting cards. The front and inside page can both be personalized with your own borders, graphics, and phrases.
A graphic library of 23 graphic characters including Christmas trees, bells, grads, and flowers gives you thing for every occasion. You also eight borders to choose from and two font styles, open and solid. You also have two sizes of text to choose from and the choice of how you want the text to be centered on the card.
Use of the program is easy and straight forward. The program leads you through with simple menus and prompts. You simply tell it what printer you are using, and then asked what page you want to do first. The screen becomes the page you are working on. You type the text you want to appear with full screen cursor control, choose the type of border you want, select the graphic you want, put an x on the screen where you want it, and repeat for the inside page. You can then choose how Many copies you want and send it to print.
When it prints out, the first image you see is the inside page and is printed upside down and in one corner of the page. The next image you see is the outside page and is in the opposite corner, right-side up. When you fold it into quarters with with the perforated edges torn off, everything falls into place and voila! instant greeting card! Zebra also. sells brightly colored tractor feed paper and matching envelopes in blue, red, and green.
The second program that comes with it is a graphics designer for designing your own graphic pictures. You can load existing graphics and modify them or create your own. Upon loading, you are greeted with a grid and a flashing cursor which you move around and build your own pictures. The image is three times normal size.
After you have made your own, you can COPY the image to your 2040 printer to see what it will look like at normal size and then save it for future use on you library tape of graphics. Zebra is also planning future library tapes with new graphics on them.
It looks like Zebra has done it again with another very professional program. Like Tech Draw, it is up there in the same league as its MacIntosh counterpart.
Available from Zebra Systems, 78-06 Jamaica Ave., Woodhaven, NY (718) 296-2385