SANTA ANA, CA - May 1996 - Markzware announces today the release of FLIGHTCHECK® 2.0! FLIGHTCHECK® is the 1995 Eddy award-winning software product in the "Best Prepress Application" category. According to Mark Brunst, Computer Production Artist/Lewis Galoob Toys "After doing a lot of research on prepress software, FLIGHTCHECK® consistently came to the top - and I agree that it's the best prepress software proofing product on the market."

DETECTING DOCUMENT PROBLEMS

FLIGHTCHECK® performs its magic by examining native document files created by applications such as QuarkXPress®, PageMaker® and Illustrator®. FLIGHTCHECK® has the ability to detect over 140 potential printing problems before a job is sent to film. Furthermore, several new features are evident within version 2.0, including compatibility with Pagemaker® 6.0. According to Michelle Stuchill, Director of Training/London Litho "In the world of preflight FLIGHTCHECK® should be a required tool in anybody's Macintosh toolbox. It is like trying to fly a plane without wings, it just won't fly."

IMPROVING CLIENT/VENDOR COMMUNICATIONS

FLIGHTCHECK® 2.0 contains robust new features based upon the most popular requests of surveyed users. For example, the Ground Controls, FLIGHTCHECK®'s means of allowing the user to customize which specific document items will be checked, can now be password protected and can be saved to a disk file and reloaded at any time as desired. This file, which can now also be included during the job has been flightchecked adding a more direct communications vehicle between the client and vendor. As Dick Fergosi, owner of Litho Color says "FLIGHTCHECK® is very useful because it allows me to go to the customer and let them know what they have missed in the document and back it up with a print out or the customers own data file to show them exactly what is wrong."

Designing and utilizing customized output forms with FLIGHTCHECK® is easier than ever. That's because special data fields can be created on a custom form that will automatically display information about a document's fonts, colors, images and so forth whenever the custom form template is opened.

FLIGHTCHECK® EDUCATION

As publishing professionals are currently taking heed that preflighting has now become an extremely critical stage in the prepress workflow, courses on FLIGHTCHECK® are now being conducted throughout the country. Prepress managers such as Jim Jordan of Waller Media state concludes: "I teach classes and use FLIGHTCHECK® to demonstrate for PINC in Northern California. It is very fast, very efficient and gives a lot of information at the very start. We would like all of our clients to have it!"

FLIGHTCHECK®'s comprehensive document checking and report generation capabilities have quickly made it a defacto standard in the printing and publishing industries provoking MacWeek's Tom Gellerto claim "FLIGHTCHECK® is a wonderful package that will pay for itself in saved film and plates."

Markzware Software, specializes in developing intelligent prepress software for the graphic arts and printing industry worldwide.

About Markzware
Markzware is the leading developer of quality assurance, data conversion, and workflow solutions for the international graphic arts, printing, publishing and digital multimedia industries. 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. http://www.markzware.com

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