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Sierra Print Artist is a computer program from Sierra Home (part of Sierra Entertainment). The software allows the user to make cards, calendars, stationery and other assorted crafts and then print them with their printer.
History

The program was originally developed by Pixellite Group in the early 90s. TheMS-DOSversion was written by Christopher Schardt. The originalWindowsversion was written by Mr. Schardt, and Ferdinand G. Rios and Tracy Elmore ofSAPIEN TechnologiesVince Mills handled later versions.

The program was first published in 1992 under the nameInstant ArtistbyAutodesk. After half a year or so, Autodesk decided to abolish its consumer products division.Maxisthen published the program under the namePrint Artist. In 1995, Sierra On-Line purchased Pixellite Group and the rights to the software and it became known asSierra Print Artist. It was published under Sierra's "Sierra Home" label and continues to be today despite several purchases and mergers of Sierra On-Line beginning in 1996.

The underlying vector-graphics/font-effects technology was developed by Dane Bigham and Christopher Schardt. It was first used inBanner Mania, published byBroderbund, also written by Christopher Schardt. Steve Hales wrote theMacversion of BannerMania. Marty Kahn (the author of the originalPrint Shop) wrote theApple IIversion. The technology also found its way into what would eventually become theWordArtadd-in forMicrosoft Word.

A popular feature of the program was the Graphics Grabber, developed by Vince Mills, which enabled the program to handle a catalog of thousands of vector and bitmap graphics, organized by keywords. Sierra Home also publishesHallmark Cards-licensed versions of the program asHallmark Scrapbook Studio DeluxeandHallmark Holiday Card Studio. OEM-branded versions of Print Artist also came bundled with certainEpsonprinters and scanners.