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Business Card Software for Macintosh

Design and Print Your Own Business Cards With This Software

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Create business cards and more for your small business or home office with these specialty business card software programs for the Mac. These programs features templates and artwork for business cards as well as other identity system and marketing pieces. For more desktop publishing software options, see the recommendations below this list.

BeLight Software: Business Card Composer

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Also a part of Belight's PrintFolio, this is the component for just business cards. It comes with image editing tools, several printing options, and thousands of images covering many occupations and types of businesses. Get a free trial version. BCC is available in English, German, French, and Spanish language editions.

Available as of 2010: Business Card Composer v.5 for Mac

BeLight Software: Printfolio

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This suite of programs from BeLight includes Business Card Composer (also available separately) along with programs for labels, and creating other small business items such as brochures and fliers. Comes with hundreds of templates and a 23,000+ clip art library in the retail edition. 

Available as of 2010: Printfolio for Mac

Broderbund: The Print Shop

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The newest version of The Print Shop for the Mac by Broderbund has better layout tools, more graphics and photos (19,500+), more special effects and includes thousands more projects (9500+) such as multi-page booklets. It integrates with your Mac apps such as iPhoto, iDVD, and iCal. Use it for greeting cards, calendars, posters, simple newsletters, and labels.

Available as of 2010: The Print Shop Mac

Avery DesignPro

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The label people have some design software that does labels, yes, but also iron-on transfers for t-shirts, greeting cards, business cards, and more. Import personal photos from iPhoto in the Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard and for Windows.  Oh, and it's also a FREE download.

Available as of 2010: Avery DesignPro for Mac and Windows

 

Apple iWork Pages

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Pages, the word processing component of Apple iWork, combines both word processing documents and page layout in one program -- with different templates and windows depending on the type of document. iWork also includes Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations. It can also handle Microsoft Word files. iWork '09 was the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Award Winner for Mac Office Suites and Pages '09 was first runner-up for Mac word processing. Use it? Review it.

Available as of 2010: Pages '09 for Mac

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