MARKZWARE SET FOR XML AT DRUPA 2004
Markzware Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary
With New Solutions and Grand Plans for Drupa 2004

RIJSWIJK, The Netherlands – February 26, 2004 – The year 2004 marks Markzware’s 10-year anniversary of service to the global graphic arts, printing and digital multimedia industries.

Markzware is the leading developer of quality assurance and preflight applications. Markzware’s theme for Drupa 2004 is, "Quality Results With Technology You Can Trust." To educate the market on ensuring error-free and print-ready PDF creation, Markzware will be showcasing its quality control technology, including the full line of FlightCheck solutions (FlightCheck Professional 5.0, FlightCheck Workflow, and FlightCheck Online) at Drupa in Hall 4, Stand A05.

FlightCheck Professional is the essential quality control tool for all participants in the print and multimedia manufacturing workflow. FlightCheck Professional sets the industry standard for preflight quality control by detecting problems and providing users with details on how to correct potential problems and collecting fonts, images and other required elements for successful output.

Markzware is also releasing the updated version of its powerful server-based FlightCheck Workflow V3.1 (formerly known as MarkzScout). FlightCheck Workflow is designed for prepress operations as a workflow management tool used to create an automated pathway for digital files processing through the workflow. FlightCheck Workflow is the only user-definable, cross-platform, open application that inspects digital files to sort, filter and categorize them in the prepress workflow. “Commercially, FlightCheck Workflow enables us, as a Markzware Authorized Solution Provider, to provide our customers with bespoke yet open additions to both existing and custom created solutions based on this technology, such as our solution called Good2Print” says Tim Cox, co-director of ROI Distribution in England. Inpetto, a German-based Markzware Authorized Solution Provider, will also be showcasing its solutions based on FlightCheck Professional and FlightCheck Workflow technology.

In other exciting news, Vio Ltd and ROI Distribution, Ltd, also Markzware Authorized Solution Providers, will showcase their solutions based on Markzware’s FlightCheck Online technology. FlightCheck Online (formerly known as MarkzNet) is the first remote preflight application that provides quality control of digital jobs and assets over the Internet. FlightCheck Online is a server-based solution that enables prepress personnel, printers, publishers or any organization receiving a high volume of digital files from external or internal sources to check digital files against a customized set of preflight rules defined by the recipient. The sender is automatically notified of errors and required corrections before the job is submitted into the prepress workflow.

This third Drupa participation for Markzware will be filled with exciting news about XML. Markzware will demonstrate XMLazarus, a stand-alone and plug-in technology that enables content creators and their manufacturing partners to tap into proprietary digital documents. Data from current as well as obsolete file formats can be extracted into a new, XML-rich document with the original content, design, styles and layout preserved. The data may then be converted into other proprietary file formats with a Markzware plug-in utility.

According to David Dilling, Managing Director for Markzware Europe B.V., “XMLazarus works with not just current XML-enabled desktop publishing applications, but multiple types of legacy documents from current as well as obsolete applications. XMLazarus has the capability to convert files created by all of the most widely used desktop publishing applications, including QuarkXPress, InDesign, PageMaker, Word, Publisher, to an XML-based format with a single drag and drop or batch process.”

“While there are a few XTensions and plug-in products on the market that can export content and metadata,” Dilling notes, “XMLazarus is the first and only stand-alone technology that works across a broad spectrum of native applications and versions. The XMLazarus technology can also be easily embedded in an OEM application or integrated into existing systems, without the need for additional licensing for the supported applications.”

A content management system empowered by XMLazarus can access legacy data from non-XML-enabled publications. Users can not only re-purpose the information but also reconstitute the document in its original form. Markzware’s XMLazarus test suite is currently available to OEMs, developers and other interested parties.

Other Markzware Drupa announcements will include a white-paper technical brief detailing Markzware’s plans, as head of the CIP4 preflight committee, for implementing the important new JDF 1.2 standard specification.
For more information on Markzware technologies or Drupa plans, please contact Karin KŸchler or visit http://www.markzware.com Markzware at Drupa: Hall 4, Stand A05


About Markzware

Markzware is the leader in developing quality assurance, data conversion, and workflow solutions for the graphic arts, printing, publishing and digital multimedia industries worldwide. Markzware is a privately held company based in Santa Ana, California. Markzware B.V. located in Rijswijk, The Netherlands, is the company's headquarters for activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. For more information, visit http://www.markzware.com .

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