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 Q2ID (Quark to InDesign)

Supports Adobe InDesign CS5, CS5.5 & CS6 Convert QuarkXPress v3.3 – v9.x Installs easily Quick & simple to use Provides swift return on investment Preserves intellectual property investment Enables easy data migration Eliminates time re-creating content Reduces costs re-creating content Allows freedom to choose your authoring system

Markzware Q2ID v6 data conversion software converts intricate details of the content in a QuarkXPress document and instantly re-creates the document within InDesign CS5, CS5.5 or CS6 on the Macintosh or Windows platform. Items that convert from QuarkXPress using the Q2ID QuarkXPress to InDesign plugin include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes, anchored boxes, and pantone colors.

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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