As the name suggests, the Print Shop Companion is a companion product to The Print Shop. It contains extra miscellaneous functionality such as graphics editors and envelope printing.

The Print Shop PressWriter, from Broderbund, is a desktop publishing tool aimed at novice users. It comes with a simplified selection of pre-defined templates for newsletters, flyers, reports, resumes, brochures, and booklets. It includes a selection of extra fonts and clipart. It competed against PrintMaster Gold. Some versions were bundled with The Print Shop Deluxe for Windows.

Timeworks Publisher is a WYSIWYG desktop publishing tool created by the UK based GST Software.

Ventura Publisher, originally from Xerox, is a professional desktop publishing program for the GEM graphical environment and later Windows. It has the distinction of being the first popular publishing program for the IBM PC platform. It competed with Aldus PageMaker, which initially was more popular on the Mac platform. There are also versions for Mac and OS/2.

Wang Freestyle is an "annotation" program that operates by making screen shots of DOS applications, to which the user may then add hand-written notes using a stylus or add a voice recording with a telephone-like handset. It features a Macintosh-like desktop that displays the annotated documents graphically on a proprietary high resolution monitor, and integrates a form of mail and fax.

WinWay Resume is a tool that assists people in creating professional looking resumes. It features an interview and salary negotiation simulator.

Xerox FormBase, created by Columbia Software Inc. and marked by Xerox, is an Intelligent form processing system that brings together high quality form design and integrated relational database.

Xerox Globalview is a desktop environment and office suite originally developed for the Xerox Star. It was developed in the MESA programming language on the Xerox Star, and ported to Sun Solaris, OS/2, and Windows 3.1 (The OS/2 version requires a MESA emulator card).

Zing is a 3D design tool geared toward creating illustrations for desktop publishing and presentations, rather than CAD purposes. It includes modeling, shaping tools, and 3d font support. Rendered images can be exported to formats supported by desktop publishing tools. It competed against a similar product called Super 3D.