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Really great looking cards-fast
I was skeptical of the claim on the box that I could make a card in 5 minutes, but give or take a few seconds, that's what I did. I made a basketball card of my daughter. First I picked a front and back. Then I imported a photo for front, and I used the same photo, cropped, for the back. I filled in the stats, and the program gave me a preview of both sides. I was satisfied and hit print. The special paper works like a dream: remove the backing, fold over on the perforations, and the front and back match up and stick together. The cards (2 per sheet) pop out. Nice smooth edges, too. I've tried it on a couple of different printers, and have been particularly pleased with the results on the Canon i475D, a $100 color inkjet.

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Software needs improvement
Rather than being simple to use, this software is simplistic. It is extremely limiting in what the user is able to do.

These are the features that need to be improved:

1. The software comes with 5 sheets of glossy paper to print the cards on. The paper itself has a nice feel to it, and the pictures look good on it. But it is difficult to align the cards up with the area alotted for it on the paper. There's a learning curve to this, and I went through all five sheets to print out one card. As far as I can tell, the software prints out two copies of each card on each sheet. You cannot just print out one card and save the other half of the sheet for another card. To get refills of this paper from the company is expensive, and still does not solve the problem of the same card printing out twice on each sheet. I would like to see how this works using glossy inkjet photopaper and then rubber cementing the front and back sides of the card.

2. Worse yet, the software limits you creatively. It has pre-printed fields for stats. If you don't fill in the stats such as "Position," "Batting Avg." etc., those words still print out on the card, whether you want them there or not. You can choose other formats with other pre-printed categories, but if you don't want those either, you are out of luck. There is a miscellaneous category for type of card, but again, because of pre-printed fields such as "Height," "Age," and "Weight," these are extremely limiting. What if you want to make your own trading card out of pictures you have made and make a deck of your own version of "Pokemon" cards or "Magic" cards? You are extremely limited in your ability to pull off such a feat.

3. On each card, the Brand name "Enteractive" prints out. I think it would be better if you had the ability to print out your own Brand name for your line of cards. After all, do PowerPoint presentations have the Microsoft logo on each presentation? Do Flash movies have the Macromedia logo on each movie?

4. I think it would be better if the software gave you simple choices to make, from scratch, such as the look of the border you want, and totally empty fields to type in whatever content you wish.

5. The ink on the card is not stable. Even after the ink has presumably dried on the card, I had smudging taking place on one of them. (This is after 15 minutes of not touching it, then handling it.)

In conclusion, if this software were improved, it has the potential of being very useful and enjoyable, but as it exists right now, it limits your creativity to such an extent, that your satisfaction becomes limited also.

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A great piece of software for the kids
My son absolutely loves this product. He makes trading cards for his Hockey Team and has a blast doing so. It's very easy to use and the cards print out very nicely. I highly recommend this product to anyone who has kids in youth sports.