Press Release: QuarkXPress 7 clear winner among leading page layout applications

PRESS RELEASE

New report con­cludes QuarkXPress 7 offers high­est return on investment 

DENVER – September 14, 2006 – It’s full of nov­el and use­ful fea­tures and it’s deliv­er­ing a rate of return on invest­ment (ROI) that will impress any­one inter­est­ed in dynam­ic col­lab­o­ra­tion for design and pub­lish­ing workflows. 

According to a recent study, QuarkXPress 7 offers a high­er ROI when com­pared with Adobe InDesign CS2 and pre­vi­ous ver­sions of QuarkXPress. Written by Ron Roszkiewicz, pub­lish­ing indus­try con­sul­tant and fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to The Seybold Report, and Erika Kendra of Against the Clock, the report was based on best prac­tices sug­gest­ed by soft­ware man­u­fac­tur­ers with­in both design-intensive and production-intensive work­flow environments.

In an adver­tis­ing cre­ation and design work­flow, QuarkXPress 7 was twice as fast as InDesign CS2. The new col­lab­o­ra­tion fea­tures, such as col­lab­o­ra­tion zones and Quark Job Jackets, made QuarkXPress 7 the fastest appli­ca­tion to inter­act with the client (dur­ing the review and approval process in par­tic­u­lar), includ­ing time spent apply­ing client changes.

With com­po­si­tion zones, page lay­out artists, edi­tors, and oth­er cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als can work on the same page simul­ta­ne­ous­ly and view each other’s changes auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Using Quark Job Jackets, work­groups can share spec­i­fi­ca­tions across work­sta­tions, and the shared con­tent palette allows teams to main­tain con­sis­tent design through the syn­chro­niza­tion of text, pic­tures, and item attributes.

The new col­lab­o­ra­tion fea­tures also con­tributed heav­i­ly to QuarkXPress 7 tak­ing first place in the mag­a­zine work­flow test­ing. Not only did QuarkXPress 7 com­plete the work­flow in the fastest time, but it also pro­duced the most reli­able PDF out­put through the use of the Quark Job Jackets technology. 

“Much of QuarkXPress 7’s ROI edge comes from its imple­men­ta­tion of inno­v­a­tive fea­tures for col­lab­o­ra­tion and doc­u­ment evaluation,” said Roszkiewicz. “In addi­tion, the enhance­ments to QuarkXPress 7’s exist­ing imag­ing tech­nol­o­gy and project-oriented doc­u­ment mod­el real­ly took this ver­sion of Quark’s flag­ship soft­ware to a high­er lev­el of performance.”

“This report under­scores the pos­i­tive feed­back from our cus­tomers and with­in the indus­try and con­firms that QuarkXPress 7 is the most sig­nif­i­cant upgrade in our history,” said Jürgen Kurz, senior vice pres­i­dent of desk­top prod­ucts at Quark. “We will con­tin­ue to inno­vate to deliv­er design soft­ware of the high­est qual­i­ty that makes our cus­tomers more effi­cient, cre­ative, and successful.”

To obtain the ROI report, please vis­it www​.quark​.com/​p​r​o​d​u​c​t​s​/​x​p​r​e​s​s​/​s​i​m​p​l​y​faster.

To learn more about QuarkXPress 7 and how to pur­chase or upgrade, vis­it the Quark Web site at www​.quark​.com/​s​a​l​e​s​/​d​esktop.

A ful­ly func­tion­al 30-day eval­u­a­tion ver­sion of QuarkXPress 7, includ­ing the new uni­ver­sal release for Intel based Macs, is avail­able for down­load from http://​www​.quark​.com/​30days.

About Quark
Quark Inc. (www​.quark​.com) is an inno­v­a­tive soft­ware com­pa­ny pro­vid­ing design, pro­duc­tion, and col­lab­o­ra­tion solu­tions that are trans­form­ing the busi­ness of cre­ative com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Quark has pro­vid­ed award-winning soft­ware for pro­fes­sion­al pub­lish­ers since its flag­ship prod­uct, QuarkXPress, changed the course of tra­di­tion­al pub­lish­ing. Founded in 1981, Denver-based Quark Inc. is pri­vate­ly held.