Sheilie L. Hall
Ducktype Digital and Get Creative News

As a prepress professional I have spend many hours going through customers' digital files one by one, checking for everything from fonts, to page size and image resolution to make sure the files would print correctly on press. Some of the documents I have worked on include annual reports for companies like Equifax and Coca-cola - where quality is part of their reputation. With the use of Flightcheck Professional, I gained the ability to quickly preflight my files, with pinpoint accuracy each time - every time. Without Flightcheck I never would have been able to get my files on press as quickly and accurately. Thanks for giving me 15 years of peace of mind as a prepress professional.

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GARY J. K. HIRAM | Honolulu, Hawaii
"I started using FlightCheck Classic back in September 2001 and in that time have used it to preflight over 3,000 jobs. The comment I usually receive from my vendors is that my files are always "perfect" (one actually refers to them as plug and play!) On quick turnarounds I'll call a vendor to give them a "heads up" and see if they foresee any potential snags and the usual response is "we've never had a problem with your files and don't see why we'd have any now."

I contribute much of this praise to Markzware and FlightCheck in particular. It is an AWESOME program. I love using it now and look forward to using future versions of FlightCheck! You'd laugh if you could see all my archived jobs with the eagle logo on their folders. This logo tells me at a glance that the contents are GOOD TO GO.

"FLIGHTCHECK ROCKS!"

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DAVID HARLON | Color Spectrum Network
"We use Flightcheck Professional for native and PDF files. It saves us time and Money. FlightCheck is 'the original' and competitive products were too limited for my needs."

DAVID HARLON
www.colorspectrumnetwork.com

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KENNETH BAILEY | Leicester College, UK
"Preflight software such as Markzware's FlightCheck Professional has really come into its element. More and more is being asked of graphic designers and prepress operatives alike, and with time being at a premium in this industry this is the sure way of ensuring we educate our learners so they are ready for the 'real world.

It will help them ensure their digital artwork is correct for purpose before creating a PDF or before supplying digital artwork to a printer - we are talking 'preflight' here as opposed to 'postflight' - why make the same PDF twice?"

Kenneth Bailey,
Markzware Authorized Solution Provider

Lecturer for Print and Media from Leicester College, UK

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LEE DUNN | Impact Advertising
"It's really simple math. Use FlightCheck, reduce prepress errors, save money. After over 500 print jobs in one year, those little changes can add up to a lot of money.

We saved so much money in prepress changes using FlightCheck. Slaying the gremlins before they get to the printer saved us hundreds of hours in reworks.

Vendors don't know what to say when I say they'll be getting a prepped and FlightChecked file. They're stunned."

USA Packaging ( Impact Advertising )
2727 Chemsearch Blvd 3N
Irving, Texas 75062
Phone: 972-438-0575
Fax: 972-438-0802

www.impactadvertising.net

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MARY LOU BENZEL | Sir Speedy Clairmont Mesa
"My husband and I both own Sir Speedy Clairemont Mesa. When we decided to open the franchise, neither of us had any real printing training, but Sir Speedy hosts a three-week intensive training program. Preflighting is something that they highly encourage. When you open a Sir Speedy, I wouldn't say it's a turnkey operation, but they do recommend a core of software and equipment.

FLIGHTCHECK is the preflight application they recommend. We see all sorts of files come over the counter here. A lot of customers think that just because they've created a file that looks good on the screen that it's going to print the same way. But unless the creator knows what they're doing, there may be missing elements or other problems like low-res images.

To complicate our job, many of our clients don't even supply a proof, so if a font defaults, for example, we may not be able to tell that it's happened. Preflighting allows us to have three options when there's a problem with a file. First, if its a small problem, we can just make the quick fix. Or we can call the customer and tell them what's missing and provide them with a preflight report. They can then either fix it themselves and resubmit the corrected file, or for $70 an hour, we'll correct it for them. The bottom line is money."

MARY LOU BENZEL
Owner

SIR SPEEDY CLAIREMONT MESA
Phone: 858-541-1972
Fax: 858-541-2099

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PAUL SCALENGHE | Trapfalls Marketing Group
"I have to say, FlightCheck was one of the smartest purchases I've made. It allows my group to concentrate on creative support, not on the back-ends of projects. The bottom line - I can be efficient and cost-effective with my resources, while delivering a great product."

Paul Scalenghe
V.P. Director of Production Services
Trapfalls Marketing Group

ALLEN KALKA
Over the years, I have found the Markzware Conversion Tools to be some of the best written and easy to use products on the market.

The latest version of Q2ID (QuarkXpress to InDesign) is the one major tool that Adobe "should have" written into InDesign.

The ability to directly import my customers QuarkXpress (and more recently Microsoft Publisher) files directly into Adobe InDesign with the least amount of additional effort has give me the ability to standardize my workflow and has allowed me to accept jobs that I would have otherwise had to refuse.

I hope the folks at Markzware will continue to keep up the good work.

WEB-N-DESIGN.
Mount Dora, Florida

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VICKI JOHNSON
Just a note to say a big Thank You for creating such a wonderful plug-in as Q2ID.
As a longtime Quark user, I knew of no easy way to switch to InDesign without recreating all my existing documents. Your product instantly solved that problem. Q2ID works seamlessly and so far I've had no problems.

Kudos to your team.
Vicki Johnson

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TOM HOENS | KASPER DIGITALE
"What a wonderful Adobe InDesign Plugin Q2ID is! It works perfectly! It saves me hours of repetitive work."

Tom Hoens
Kasper digitale
Citadellaan 51a
9000 Gent
http://www.kasper.be

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CALEB CLAUSET | 2C Design
"Q2ID is truly an amazing piece of engineering and the simplicity of its use (File > Open, done) is great... (It's) the best $200 I spent. Paid for itself the day I bought it. Can't get a much better ROI than that."

Caleb Clauset
Design and Consulting
2C Design
10610 Inwood Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20902
www.2cdesign.org

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Gavin Anderson
Senior Creative Graphic Designer
Marketing Department
A S Hospitality
Printing & Graphic Communications

Last night, I had a 36 pp full color catalog for Holiday Inn Express here in Marketing that the sales person wanted to send to the customer in PDF form. I could not get the Quark version down under 103 MB, but I pulled the same trick, opening it in InDesign and generating a cleaner-looking 3.3MB PDF. The only issues I had were some slight tracking adjustments where the designer had extended some of the ascenders of the page title font with a vertical line and 6 places where a Zapf Dingbat font was used for the bullet, and that was an easy fix in the InDesign glyph palette.

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Marlene Hochberg
Modern Type & Design

"I bought Q2ID about a month ago, and used it to convert a 44-page Quark 7.3 file (a magazine) to ID CS2. It was easy, fast, and worked really well.

I bought it when the 25% discount was available (apparently it still is), and it was worth every cent. I've converted several documents, although the magazine was the biggest and baddest."