Enjoy a great article written by John Giles in the October issue of “Quick Printing Magazine.”
“Everyone says they are different. Their shop is different. Their market is different. Their customers are different. Yet as I visit and chat with hundreds of printers throughout North America each year, it quickly comes evident that there are more similarities than differences…”
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Dave Matthews heads up the prepress department at Progressive Printing, a Martinsburg, WV commercial printing facility. Long plagued by Microsoft Publisher files submitted by a typical (in the commercial print world) customer base that’s ill-equipped and uneducated in the process of preparing digital content for print, Matthews discovered Markzware’s PUB2ID plug-in.
Markzware followed up with Matthews some months later to find out how the application had helped solve some of the conversion problems he’d been facing when dealing with Microsoft Publisher files, and he was gracious to share his thoughts:
Markzware: When was the company founded?
Matthews: 1995.
Back when I wrote the Quark for InDesign Users articles, I was approached by Markzware, a company that makes several Quark and InDesign plugins. I know the folks over at InDesign Secrets love plugins, but I’ve never used any myself. Markzware kindly agreed to give me a copy of their plugin to try out and I thought I’d share with you some of my thoughts!
For reference, I tested the Q2ID plugin on Windows XP SP2 with QuarkXpress 7.3 (Passport) and InDesign CS3.
As with most large—and, often, geographically dispersed—corporations and businesses, the creative team at Weight Watchers Group found that it needed an effective way to bridge the gap between content creation and production for its numerous publications.
Markzware spoke with Donna DeMarco—the integrated marketing and publications manager for Weight Watchers Group, who oversees a diverse mix print and electronic media—about some of the challenges she faces with disparate workflows that cross over platforms (PC to Mac) and content-creation applications, like those that make up the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe’s Creative Suite.
Markzware on Blip.tv
Markzware is constantly looking for new ways to communicate and share the features and benefits of our conversion and preflight products. To this ends, we have joined a new and very exciting video site called Blip.tv. Here is what they call the embedded Markzware player below. Just click on it and watch!
The direct link to the Markzware Show channel on Blip.TV is http://markzware.blip.tv/. Enjoy the hopefully informative and educational videos and feel free to share with your co-workers and customers, for a well-made (preflighted) print-job is worth it’s weight in gold!
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Press Release 6/11/08
Not long ago, Markzware put out a cry for Adobe InDesign users to send in their bad, corrupted or otherwise not responding documents. We have seem a steady stream of crashing InDesign documents coming in, which is to assist our R&D team in making a recovery Plug-in, similar to MarkzTools. Keep sending them (to pr AT markzware DOT com), for we are making incredible progress. Those who want to see how we fix them currently, visit this site and lastly, here is a video up-date on the recovery process. We show a huge file getting fixed:
05-29-08 Show
Carey Holzman - Thursday, 29 May 2008, at 10:58 p.m.
Hour one: Markzware. This software publishing company, caters to the worldwide graphic, printing and publishing industries. FlightCheck Professional is a stand-alone application that can inspect over 45 layout application types and hundreds of image types. The amazing thing is that you do not even need to purchase Acrobat to perform quality control checks on PDF files!
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