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Customer Reviews

Extremely Satisfied

2002-04-23
This was such an easy program to use. I found it to be very straight forward and intuitive. The cards I have printed so far look fantastic. My wife and I can't wait to create trading cards for my sons little league team :)

I've been looking for a piece of software like this for a very long time. I would highly recommend this product to anyone who has a printer, a child, and an imagination.

Baseball/Football/etc. card Maker 2002-04-20
I found this product loads of fun and very easy to work...My kids have made their own baseball cards for their little league teams. It has already provided hours of entertainment for the young ones and I encourage anyone with kids and a computer to buy one....

Very disapointing 2002-02-07
It could be the worst software program I have every purchased.
Finally after hours of work I printed the trading card. It's not that its hard to use (very easy), But has so many bugs in it I had to start over at least 6 times. It would not let me save the information as i went. So at various stages of the program i'd get the dreded (this program has preformed an Illegal action) losing all the information and starting over over over over again. It is also very cheaply made. The developers might want to take up Bartending...I emailed them to say i would be sending it back only after i broke it in half..don't want another consumer to re-purchase it..

My Dissappinting $100 investment 2007-06-03
Where do I begin? The ability to create custom sports cards was something I was really looking forward to. I read previous reviews about the software. Mostly great, so I said "why not?"

Pros:
This program was easy to install. Adding photos and stats are a sinch and it does indeed take about 5 minutes to create a card.
The quality of the pictures were neat! Now comes the fun part.

Cons:
1. It took me nearly an hour (8 test pages and 5 glossy paper pages) to callibrate the card to line up evenly when you print out your final product! You have to manually adjust the settings in order to "line up" your card. And even after that, when you hit print, the image is still off-line! I wish it had auto callibration.

2. The paper is soo expensive. I ordered the 100 sheets for $80 as a classroom expense which this was. Not to mention the amount of ink spent on callibrating the darn image to print straight!

3. The glitches. After creating several cards, I wanted to make some changes on cards I created say... 10 minutes earlier. 8 out of 10 times the software did not recognize its own file! "This is not a valid cst file" message appears. Very wrong and frustrating. And when it did recognize it, when I clicked "edit stats" on a saved card, all my stats were gone!

I kid you not, my stats were converted to this:
"sjkdsakldhflak adjkfhalkdfhlak adkjfhalkdf adkjfhalkdf adskjfalskdf"

4. The restraints are that there is a custom link for football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey. Great if you want to fill the stats out for the back of the card. I do not however, and there was no way to remove those categories from there. If you do not enter data, those categories still appear regardless.
Now I coach youth volleyball and have 15 student cards to print out. It is no fun when you cant retrieve the files after working on them, saving them, and no longer being able to access it or retype everything.

If anyone knows of any other type of custom trading card software that is realiable, easy to use, and recognizes its own files, please let me know!

Trading Card Maker 2007-02-20
Recived when promissed in perfect condition. found it easy to use with step by step instructions every thing it says it is.

Really great looking cards-fast 2004-04-02
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.

Software needs improvement 2002-12-28
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.

A great piece of software for the kids 2002-04-24
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.