Contact:
Mary Gay Marchese
949-756-5100, ext. 250
pr@markzware.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW PREFLIGHTING SOFTWARE – Offers Digital Printers, Publishers and Graphic Designers Complete Quality Control
Markzware FlightCheck® Professional Now Supports QuarkXPress 8 & Adobe CS4 Suite

SANTA ANA, California, August 28 , 2009 — Markzware (www.markzware.com), the recognized authority and inventor of preflighting, released a significant upgrade to its popular preflighting solution, FlightCheck Professional for Macintosh. In light of today’s economic challenges, Markzware is offering $100 off this latest version of  FlightCheck Professional v6.5  which has full support for the Adobe CS4 Creative Suite (including Adobe CS4 Design Standard and Adobe CS4 Design Premium) and QuarkXPress 8. This powerful upgrade gives printers, graphic designers and publishers the ability to preflight efficiently, avoiding costly production errors.

For well over a decade, the process of preflighting has been an important step for printers and prepress professionals worldwide.  Preflighting is the process that identifies and corrects missing items and errors in customer files before they become bigger and more costly problems further downstream in the printing process.  Read more... (796 words, 7 images, estimated 3:11 mins reading time)

Found these short video clips and photos going through some old files… Markzware adventure (and business trip) to New Zealand in 2004… Kris Coppieters, whom is now an Adobe InDesign Plugin Developer and trainer for software programmers, lives down there. You can check out his site (I like his freebie, ImageHorn, to dynamically fit images) here, http://www.rorohiko.com – enjoy the short slide-show and vids:

Ron Crandall, co-founder of Markzware with the current CEO Patrick Marchese, has more talents than just delving into Adobe file formats or Quark XTensions. He is a masterful composer and artist. Here we see Ron playing on of his favorite compositions named Torreador on his 1972 Rameriz classic guitar. Sit back and enjoy this lovely and motivational piece:

The piece is Ron’s own composition called “Torreador.”
The guitar is a Rameriz from the fine year of 1972.

This was recorded in 2002. Now we see where Ron get’s his prepress preflight ethics from to create the first FlightCheck, as to pull off such a performance takes planning, preparation and practice!

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Recently Markzware had a chat with Claudia Arkush who works at CA Graphic Design in Roswell, Georgia. Claudia shared with Markzware her thoughts about Q2ID (Quark2InDesign).

Markzware: How did you find out about Markzware’s Q2ID plug-in?

Arkush: I heard about Q2ID at an InDesign workshop.

Markzware: Did you find the conversion from QuarkXPress to InDesign is seamless and reliable when using Q2ID?

Arkush: Yes, absolutely. My first application was converting a large, messy, inconsistent catalog. It had hundreds of text boxes, tiny type that was force-kerned here and there to bring up a line, and the fonts were not always consistent. It worked flawlessly.

Markzware: Was the investment in Q2ID a good investment for you? And would you recommend it to other creative professionals who need to convert content from QuarkXPress to InDesign?

Arkush: It was an essential investment and worth every penny. My client insisted on switching to InDesign and this made it possible. I would recommend it for sure.

Michael Shaw, President of MaUsE in Toronto Canada and Editor of MaUsE DoubleClick most recently reviewed Markzware’s popular XTensions MarkzTools and Pasteboard XT.   Please enjoy his review.

Read more:

SANTA ANA, California, April 22, 2009 — Markzware (www.markzware.com), the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and data conversion software has donated upgrades of its preflighting and conversion solutions to Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Print Media.

“This donation will help the students continue to develop and learn the importance of preflighting skills with FlightCheck . Access to the latest in preflighting technology, FlightCheck not only helps students to better understand the process, but it helps new graduates arrive on the doorsteps of future employers having mastered key software applications, and entering the workforce as highly productive employees,” said Mary Gay Marchese, director of public relations Markzware.  FlightCheck can be used to check several types of documents to be printed from a layout software program, brochure software, layout software, design software, digital graphic software, and various other kinds of software.

“We are very pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with Markzware,” says Erich Lehman, premedia facilities coordinator, RIT’s School of Print Media. “Their support for our students and programs has helped us to enhance academic exposure to the issues that arise during preflight in a practical manner using industry standard tools. Markzware also enables us to troubleshoot the latest problematic files. Their Q2ID and ID2Q conversion tools have saved many student projects in a pinch.”  Read more... (220 words, 7 images, estimated 53 secs reading time)

Another, this time Swiss update, from Michael Shaw, editor over at MaUsE.

Mike on Swiss Mountain

WONDERFUL trip into Switzerland by clean, punctual trains from Geneva to Interlaken and then up from Interlaken by train and cable cars through Murren to the peak of Schilthorn mountain, for a coffee, surrounded by the Eiger, the Jungfrau and other beautiful Alpine peaks, covered with snow and skiers and people on snowboards. Hiking trails look damp but passable.

Absolutely brilliant white slopes and snow several feet thick.

The Rugenpark B&B hotel here provides us with an excellent buffet breakfast and supplies us with boots, jackets, snow-gear and everything we want.

The incredible skiing trails go on for miles… and miles… and the weather is gorgeous, warm & sunny at about 5 degrees below freezing at the top of the mountain and lovely warm spring weather at the bottom of the mountain.

Lake near Interlaken

Schilthorn station

Skiers in the Swiss Alps

Got another nice update from one of Markzware’s friends, Michael Shaw, editor over at MaUsE DoubleClick, with some pictures of a lovely Cinque Terre area in Italy . Since it is Friday, here you go:

Just got back into Nice in France from Cinque Terre, in Italy, about ten minutes before the French trains all went on strike !!! We got the last train. We walked two of the five well maintained trails, from Monterossa to Venazza and Vernazza to Corneglia.

Fantastic hiking trails established centuries ago when walking along the coast was the only way to go along the north-west coast of Italy. Beautiful views of the Five Towns from the hiking trails. If you haven’t done it, you really should.

Apparently it gets VERY hot and busy in the summer so early spring and late winter are the best times to go.

Walk to Monter

View of French coast on Mediterranean

Vernazza

Manarolo

Jay Nelson over at Planet Quark has posted a very special offer from the U.K. on Markzware’s document conversion and preflight tools:

“XChange UK is offering a free copy of Markzware’s FlightCheck Professional 6 when you buy ID2Q (which opens InDesign documents in QuarkXPress), or Q2ID (which does the reverse). The price for either ID2Q or Q2ID is £171.00 ($239), which gives you a savings of £494.00 ($691). This offer is for the Mac version only, and expires 17 April 2009.

I wrote about ID2Q here, and you can watch a 3.5-minute video demonstration of how it works here.”
SOURCE: http://planetquark.com/2009/03/17/buy-id2q-get-flightcheck-professional-free/

This is a great offer!

One of our long-standing contacts, Michael Shaw from Canada, wrote us the other day to say he appreciated our blog. Thanks Michael. So we thought we would share with you some photos from his European adventure he and his wife are in the middle of, with his permission of course:

Lovely view - Cote d'Azur

Cote d'Azur - is that French bread?

Looks like a lovely meal is about to start!

Have a great weekend!