Hallmark Card Studio 2012

I always loved CreateACard and had every updated version of it since my first computer in 1992. The program had been tossed around from company to company a few times and there's really no support for it and it's fallen by the wayside. It had worked on all versions of Windows  in some form until Windows 7, which stopped it cold. Nobody can get the program on this OS, so those of us who adored the program had to seek out something different for the first time in over a decade.

I had gotten a free trial of some version of Hallmark Cards at some point in the past and saw that Hallmark Cards 2010 had just been released the same time I bought this computer in 2009, so purchased and installed it. It's still not as good as my old CreateACard version 3, but I'm desperate and kept it.

But it never printed cards right. Well, it would print, but each time I wanted to print another card I would have to reconfigure the printer for 2-sided printing within the program. I did on-line searches and saw that many others were having the same problem. I kept checking every few months and saw there was never really a fix to the problem. People who worked on the official Hallmark help site (Soft City?) would ask all sorts of questions and eventually the people asking would give up and wander away, problem still unsolved.

Again today I went to print a card and it wanted to configure it all over again. NO! It was time to stop the insanity!

I searched and searched and searched some more and finally found the solution elsewhere on the Soft City site. As it turns out, even though our programs would ask us if we wanted to check for updates and we said Yes and they found none, but there WAS an update, and it came out years ago. I wish all the people who worked there knew about this patch AND the not-updating issue. It would have solved a lot of problems years ago.