Markzware FlightCheck Professional v6.5 has long been know as the standard to preflight PDF, InDesign and QuarkXPress print-files. An often over-looked format this Santa Ana, California based software developer supports is also Adobe Illustrator.

Interview with Mary Gay Marchese and Anne-Marie Concepcion.

Seneca Design and Indesignsecrets.com's Anne-Marie Concepcion talks about Q2ID, Markzware's very popular Quark XPress to Adobe InDesign conversion tool.

Walk around the busy Graph Expo 2008 and see Adobe, Quite Software, Xante, DirectSmile, 4over and more- plus watch the printing presses in action! Patrick Marchese, CEO and co-founder of Markzware takes us on a tour…

Here we see Patrick Marchese, co-founder of Markzware, haggling a deal outside of Xunantunich Mayan Ruins in the Cayo district of Belize. Lovely art, by the way!

Travelling the islands of Belizé, in this case from Caye Caulker to Belize City, is a lot of fun. Although preflight seems to be often taken for granted, the flights were smooth, short and fun. Watch these various videos and stills of the flight and sights on a Tropic Air flight in June 2008- the staff is VERY friendly and helpful, btw!

Henno Jacques is a freelance graphic designer in Holland. In this video spot, he is interviewed by Markzware's Arnold Roosch about what he does, which graphic arts programs he uses, why and how.

What is most interesting about Henno is that although he has Adobe InDesign CS3, he prefers to use QuarkXPress 7. So much in fact, that when he gest IND files in, he converts them to QXD with Markzware's ID2Q or InDesign to QuarkXPress conversion XTension.

He also preflights every design with Markzware's FlightCheck Professional. Not only will he check the Quark files, but after creating a cPDF, he also postflights the resulting press-PDF. (One can not check enough!) For delivering to the printer, he does what he effectively calls a de-facto standard; 

Henno send both the press-quality PDF made under the Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications AND the open QuarkXPress job, collected or packaged with FlightCheck adding all fonts and images, even the PDF into one 'FlightCheck Approved' folder, zipped up and ready for transmission.

Watch the video spot and enjoy- and if you have something interesting to tell us, email us and we can interview you via a web cam! (marketing AT markzware DOT com) 

Checking or preflighting your brochure, business cards or digital design before making a PDF or sending to the print-shop is a must. Here is a fabulous demonstration on how and why to use Markzware’s FLIGHTCHECK Professional, the leading preflight applica