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@a2_4am I spent so many hours and wasted so much paper and so many printer ribbons with The Print Shop when I was a kid.
I made a banner congratulating my dog for being the world's best dog, and one congratulating my brother for smelling bad.
I was living the banner making life 
@pcyx I was trying to explain to my wife why this [PS Color, 1986] was the best version of Print Shop, even though there was a newer one [New Print Shop, 1990] that worked on hard drives and I was like "look, the older versions had WHIMSY and WONDER and KALEIDOSCOPES, honey they had KALEIDOSCOPES for NO REASON except it was FUN, and when it printed it said THINKING and PRINTING and the new version has NO KALEIDOSCOPES and NO THINKING" and she rolled her eyes but this is why she loves me
@a2_4am Yes! Whimsy is a good word. It wasn't just a technical printing tool. It was fun!
It's one of the few Apple programs I had that wasn't pirated... My dad nurtured my love of computers and once took me to a big software auction IN A CAVE. Imagine going underground and seeing pallets stacked with hundreds of different new-in-box 1980s software. Most of it was "business productivity" which didn't interest me at all, obviously, but I remember being enthralled by the big yellow Print Shop box and he bought it for me.
@pcyx fun fact: Print Shop drove printer sales. For several years in the mid-80s, printer sales tracked Print Shop sales to a startling degree. It was basically the only reason people wanted to use a printer at all; everything else combined was just a rounding error.
