Founded in 1992, Markzware was created by Patrick Marchese and Ron Crandall, and Markzware incorporated in 1995. We started with a dream of a superior quality control product for designers and printers which created the preflight industry. 1996 saw the company’s first footprint in Europe, and in 1998, a separate company, Markzware B.V., was created in The Netherlands.

In the fall of 1995, Markzware applied for U.S. Patent # 5,963,641 for the “Device and method for examining, verifying, correcting and approving electronic documents prior to printing, transmission or recording.” Markzware’s flagship product, FlightCheck®, is the embodiment of that patent. FlightCheck dominates the industry it created, serving thousands of professional creative design agencies, printers and publishers worldwide.

Today, Markzware expands its line of affordable data conversion and preflighting tools. Our objective is developing tools that work and that provide superb value for our customers. Ease of use and day-to-day labor reduction are key design factors.

Markzware products help our industry minimize environmental impact by repurposing content, reducing reprinting and providing file recovery to reduce ink, chemical, paper and electrical consumption.

Markzware FlightCheck (QuarkXPress XTension)

Preflights Acrobat PDF and non-PDF files Preflights print jobs in one session Preflights a wide range of print files Maximizes printing operations capacity Saves money by eliminating re-prints Native applications are not required Categories of potential problems Customizable rule sets to check files Collects and packages fonts and images Scans, reports and collects the entire job Support for third-party font applications QuarkXPress 9 and InDesign CS6 support

FlightCheck software is your total prepress application used to manage print quality control. This preflight solution provides both native file and Acrobat PDF preflight checking and is backed by a preflight patent – United States Patent #5,963,641. FlightCheck preflight is the essential preflight tool for Print Shops, Creative Designers, Prepress Departments, Customer Service Reps and Graphics Professionals within the digital print and publishing industries. FlightCheck helps users to prepare Acrobat PDF and other document types for commercial printing.

FlightCheck preflight software by Markzware helps you create excellent output for magazines, catalogs, brochures, advertisements, manuals, and virtually any document intended for digital print. It provides complete quality control of output and helps avoid re-printing jobs, saving printers and publishers valuable time and money.

The Markzware FlightCheck preflight application will preflight digital files thoroughly, perform a detailed scan, and warn you about digital print problems, while directing you to them for repair. Markzware FlightCheck guides you through the preflight workflow process with a preflight checklist and issues a preflight report with complete print job analysis, highlighting digital print errors, item by item, including wrong document size, missing fonts, incorrect colors, spot color transparency, incorrect image resolution and much more. FlightCheck preflight software will then package and collect all required print job elements, such as images and fonts, to ensure that jobs print as expected.

One of the key capabilities of Markzware FlightCheck is its power to preflight multiple file formats and image types of a wide variety. A partial list includes Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe FreeHand, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Office, CorelDRAW, EPS, TIFF and many more. FlightCheck v6.80 is one of Markzware’s quality prepress solutions.

Preflighting or checking your digital layout before outputting to PDF and going to print is a real must for those concerned about quality. Adobe's InDesign has what they call a "preflight" function... Preflighting or checking your digital layout before outputting to PDF and going to print is a real must for those concerned about quality. Adobe's InDesign has what they call a "preflight" function built-in. With this video we will compare Markzware's FlightCheck Professional to Adobe InDesign CS3's built-in "prelfighting."

See why we argue it is _not_ "true" preflighting that InDesign is offering in the first place and how easy and comprehensive FlightCheck Professional v6.1 is. The fact that you can not create a preflight rule-set within Adobe InDesign's preflight function (their are no preferences for it even!) makes it virtually useless for a serious preflighter, even before we go tit-for-tat, feature for feature. Pretty interesting stuff.

Keep in mind that in addition to preflighting InDesign files, FlightCheck can check 50+ file formats. These include Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, PDF, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Publisher, PowerPoint, Word and numerous image formats such as EPS, TIFF and even Postscript. It is as easy as drag-and-drop and you get the vital, interactive preflight reports you need...

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