This is an awful product! Although installation on my PC went without a hitch and I have even managed to design a nice looking personalised calendar, it has been impossible to print it.
My printer is the excellent Canon iP3000 which prints perfectly from other applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Digital Image Suite. However, when I try to print a calendar with this application it ignores all printer settings such as paper type and print quality. Even when I try to print a calendar to a PDF file Calendar Creator still sends it to my printer.
Even accepting that I can’t print on the correct paper type or to the required quality, what does get printed in no way resembles what’s on the screen. For example, the background changes, some items don’t appear and the calendar dates change to show the wrong months and year! I have tried a number of times, but what you get is definitely not what you see.
The layout of the dialog forms is poor to the point of looking amateurish and when saving and reloading a calendar the setting for which day the week should start on gets lost.
Finally, searching the FAQs on the company’s website they blame the printing problem on a corrupted driver – but how can that be when Calendar Creator is the only product that has these problems. However, soon AFTER installing this software on my PC the printer kept failing to print to CD/DVDs. When I got in touch with Canon they advised me to uninstall and reinstall the labelling program and the printer’s driver. Following their advice I found that reinstalling the labelling program made no difference, but reinstalling the printer's driver fixed the problem. Now the question is, were the problems with Calendar Creator due to a corrupted printer driver – or did Calendar Creator corrupt the driver and cause the problem in the first place?
I eventually found that it is possible to get the dates printed correctly, but only if you change the regional setting on your PC to the USA! Also, to print to a printer other than the default one can be achieved by changing the default printer!
I most definitely do not recommend this product and have removed it from my PC.