{"id":4515,"date":"2021-07-18T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T21:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:08:57","slug":"the-print-shop-in-a-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/the-print-shop-in-a-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"The Print Shop in a Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is probably a sign that I&#8217;m getting old, but I love tech history stories that take you on a trip down memory lane. <a href=\"https:\/\/paleotronic.com\/2021\/07\/13\/introducing-the-print-shop-club\/\">Palotronic<\/a> just released a web-based Apple II emulator running <a href=\"https:\/\/theprintshop.club\"><strong>The Print Shop<\/strong><\/a>, which is a huge nostalgic trip. I can remember printing hundreds of things from this program when I was a kid. It&#8217;s amazing how far we&#8217;ve come since only being able to select a half dozen fonts and only using solid-colored clip art images. I&#8217;m sure we destroyed countless print ribbons on the ole Apple ImageWriter II with this. I will say that tractor-fed paper still has an advantage in printing banners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/printshop-1024x736.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/printshop-1024x736.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/printshop-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/printshop-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/printshop.png 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire up <a href=\"https:\/\/theprintshop.club\">The Print Shop in your browser<\/a> and send someone a holiday or birthday card. The emulator will provide you a PDF download of the thing you send to the printer. If you want to really get in the mood, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V5kG3E5Jolg\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V5kG3E5Jolg\">play this in the background<\/a> while it &#8220;prints.&#8221; Apparently Broaderbund, the company who created The Print Shop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broderbund.com\/the-print-shop-23-1-deluxe\"><em>still<\/em> sells it<\/a>. They&#8217;re up to version 23!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is probably a sign that I&#8217;m getting old, but I love tech history stories that take you on a trip down memory lane. Palotronic just released a web-based Apple II emulator running The Print Shop,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"local","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/printshop.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}