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For example, in the "Custom Layout" screen of "Print Shop," the user is instructed to press the "Return" key on the Apple keyboard. Similarly, in the "Custom Layout" screen of "Printmaster," the user is instructed to press the "Return" key on the IBM keyboard. Actually, the IBM keyboard contains no "Return" key, only an "Enter" key. Lodge admitted that Unison's failure to change "Return" to "Enter" was a result of its programmers' intense concentration on copying "Print Shop."
- ↑ "The Learning Company's PrintMaster Sells Two Million Copies in 12 months". softkey.com. April 14, 1998. Archived from the original on February 3, 1999. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ↑ "Announcing the Release of Broderbund's PrintMaster 2.0". Reuters (Press release). 2009-10-19. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10.