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 MarkzTools (QuarkXPress XTension)

Preserves intellectual property investment Enables easy version conversion Eliminates time re-creating content Reduces costs re-creating content Recovers corrupted QuarkXPress documents fully or partially Retrieves text from corrupted documents Downsaves QuarkXPress to versions 4 & 6 Images in GRAY PREVIEWS to reduce file size

MarkzTools is in part a document insurance tool for QuarkXPress 8. It can convert higher versions of Quark to lower versions, salvage bad files, secure QuarkXPress content and maintain document integrity.

Markzware MarkzTools is an XTension for Quark that helps to prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents. Users can verify the Saved Quark document, and be alerted if the integrity of the file is suspect. Common QuarkXPress error codes that alert the user of corrupted Quark documents are [70], [39], and [108].

MarkzTools can make Quark backwards compatible, allowing users to open higher versions of Quark documents and directly downsave to Quark version 6 and version 4.

Additional MarkzTools features allow users to save a temporary copy of the document before saving the original document. This feature helps prevent potential problems during the “save” process, and the temporary file can then be used for file recovery to recover the Quark document.

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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