The series comprised 29% of Brøderbund revenue in fiscal year 1992. In 1988 Brøderbund announced that the company had sold more than one million copies, and that sales of the software comprised 4% of the entire United States software market in 1987. In 1985 it and Ghostbusters were reportedly the two most widely pirated Commodore 64 programs. These versions were published in Europe by Ariolasoft.
Whether you are looking to make greeting cards at home, learn to type, do a newsletter, create a. Versions for DOS, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit computers followed, as did a variant for the Apple IIGS. The best-known brands in consumer software for over 30 years. Designed by David Balsam and programmed by Martin Kahn, it became one of the most popular Apple II titles of all time. The original version was for the Apple II and created signs, cards, banners, and letterheads. Over the years the software has been updated to accommodate changing file formats and printer technologies. It was unique in that it provided libraries of clip-art and templates through a simple interface to build signs, posters and banners with household dot-matrix printers.
The Print Shop is a basic desktop publishing software package developed in the early 1980s by Brøderbund.