If there is no compatible Print Shop, is there another program that would be friendly enough for a senior citizen to use with MacBook Air running Sonoma 14.6 with M3 and 8GB?
MacBook Air 15″, macOS 14.6
sedona44 wrote:
If there is no compatible Print Shop, is there another program that would be friendly enough for a senior citizen to use with MacBook Air running Sonoma 14.6 with M3 and 8GB?
I suggest looking at Swift Publisher 5. It's available from the publisher as well as in the Mac App Store. I'd say it's pretty comparable to Mackiev Print Shop.
I switched to Swift Publisher after Mackiev offered to upgrade all prior users to Print Shop V4 (64-bit) about 3 years ago and then didn't come through with the upgrade. It's an ongoing sore point with many Print Shop users .
BTW, there is a Broderbund product also called The Print Shop. It is NOT the Mackiev product ... and it's awful ... seems to be a bad port of a Windows app.
sedona44 wrote:
If there is no compatible Print Shop, is there another program that would be friendly enough for a senior citizen to use with MacBook Air running Sonoma 14.6 with M3 and 8GB?
I suggest looking at Swift Publisher 5. It's available from the publisher as well as in the Mac App Store. I'd say it's pretty comparable to Mackiev Print Shop.
I switched to Swift Publisher after Mackiev offered to upgrade all prior users to Print Shop V4 (64-bit) about 3 years ago and then didn't come through with the upgrade. It's an ongoing sore point with many Print Shop users .
BTW, there is a Broderbund product also called The Print Shop. It is NOT the Mackiev product ... and it's awful ... seems to be a bad port of a Windows app.
You were one of the lucky ones. You must have had Print Shop 3 on a Mac running High Sierra or Mojave when you upgraded to v4. If you had Catalina or later you couldn't even install Print Shop 3 much less upgrade to v4.
Mackiev has been promising a v4 full installer to those of us who have Print Shop 3 but cannot install it because we're on Catalina, Big Sur or later. But they keep putting it off.
The information at the link below indicates it is compatible with Mac OS 14.
I am using that version on a M1 iMac and a MacBook Pro.
Oh, I wish I remembered when or how I obtained the program. Quite some time ago, I did have Print Shop 3, and a few years ago was sent an email from Mackiev, with an offer to upgrade to version 4. I don’t know if it matters, but I am in Canada, but not an educator.
Thank you stedman1 for such a quick response! I'll look into that.
You are quite welcome.
Yes, I remember the update from version 3 to 4, and it was definitely in the High Sierra days. I also remember there being many questions on the forum at that time about an update, and I really didn’t understand the issue folks were having obtaining the update. I also didn’t understand why it was not a problem for me.
The problem is that in the US it is only sold to schools under a volume license.
@stedman1 - how did you get your copy of the Print Shop v4?
Is there a Print Shop that will work with MacBook Air Sonoma 14.6 M3 and 8GB?
