Quark Announces Limited Time Promotional Pricing for QuarkXPress

Upgrade from any version of QuarkXPress for the same price

Press Release

Denver, Colo.–(QUARKvsINDESIGN.com)–April 5, 2005–In its efforts to reward cus­tomers for choos­ing the most suc­cess­ful design soft­ware in its class, Quark today announced the imme­di­ate avail­abil­i­ty of pro­mo­tion­al pric­ing for QuarkXPress 6.5 full prod­ucts and upgrades. The pro­mo­tion­al pric­ing includes one low upgrade price from any pre­vi­ous ver­sion of QuarkXPress. The sug­gest­ed retail prices for the pro­mo­tion­al peri­od are $199 for upgrades and $699 for full prod­uct. The pro­mo­tion­al pric­ing is avail­able now until June 30, 2005. 

Award-winning func­tion­al­i­ty

Released in November 2004 and avail­able as a free upgrade to users of QuarkXPress 6, QuarkXPress 6.5 offers new fea­tures and increased prod­uct sta­bil­i­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty. Added func­tion­al­i­ty eas­es image manip­u­la­tion, enhances vari­able data print­ing with QuarkXClusive, and pro­vides sup­port for import­ing native Photoshop files. Much more than an upgrade, QuarkXPress 6.5 has been an instant hit with users and the media alike, already win­ning a num­ber of awards, includ­ing a cov­et­ed Macworld Eddy for most improved page lay­out soft­ware, a Macworld UK 4‑star rat­ing, and a PC Magazine Germany Top-Produkt award.

Reviewers at MacUser mag­a­zine laud­ed the improve­ments: “The qual­i­ty of the edit­ed images cre­at­ed by QuarkVista [in QuarkXPress 6.5] is impec­ca­ble. Taken togeth­er with the new fea­tures intro­duced with QuarkXPress 6 – lay­ers, mul­ti­ple undo, syn­chro­nized text, and so on – it’s an utter­ly com­pelling upgrade.”

And review­ers from Computer Arts Magazine wrote: “[QuarkXClusive] leaves the low-end impos­er sup­plied with Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition look­ing piti­ful by com­par­i­son. Users still stuck with QuarkXPress 4.x and 5.x will be green with envy.”

Helping cus­tomers make the switch to QuarkXPress 6.5
Instead of hav­ing dif­fer­ent upgrade pric­ing that is based on the soft­ware ver­sion a cus­tomer is upgrad­ing, Quark is offer­ing upgrades to QuarkXPress 6.5 for the same low upgrade price of $199 – regard­less of whether a cus­tomer is upgrad­ing from QuarkXPress 3, 4, or 5. This pro­mo­tion­al pric­ing plan could save some orga­ni­za­tions more than $300 for every upgrad­ed license.

For those busi­ness­es that are look­ing to make the switch to QuarkXPress 6.5 or add new licens­es, the new pro­mo­tion­al full prod­uct pric­ing means pur­chas­ing licens­es of QuarkXPress has nev­er been more cost effec­tive. The sug­gest­ed retail price for the full prod­uct ver­sion of QuarkXPress 6.5 dur­ing the pro­mo­tion is just $699, a sav­ings of more than $346 on the list price of QuarkXPress. 

Wide avail­abil­i­ty
The new pro­mo­tion­al pric­ing is avail­able through thou­sands of Quark resellers across Europe and the Americas although pric­ing may vary between resellers. To order direct­ly from Quark by phone, call 800.676.4575 in the United States, 307.772.7100 in Canada, or vis­it the Quark Web site at (www​.quark​store​.com). When order­ing direct­ly from Quark, cus­tomers should use the key­code K200 with­in Europe and A497 with­in the US. Please note that Prices are in U.S. dol­lars. Prices and terms are sub­ject to change with­out notice. Customer is respon­si­ble for all tax­es, ship­ping and han­dling. This offer is only valid to upgrade U.S. English ver­sions 3, 4 or 5 reg­is­tered in the United States and used in the Americas, or to pur­chase a full-licensed copy of QuarkXPress U.S. English ver­sion 6.5 reg­is­tered in the United States and used in the Americas. This offer can­not be applied to pre­vi­ous­ly pur­chased upgrades or products.

About Quark
Quark Inc. (www​.quark​.com) is a lead­ing devel­op­er of tools and tech­nolo­gies for col­lab­o­ra­tive con­tent work­flows from the desk­top to the enter­prise. Quark has been pro­vid­ing award-winning soft­ware for pro­fes­sion­al pub­lish­ers since its flag­ship prod­uct, QuarkXPress, changed the course of tra­di­tion­al pub­lish­ing. Today, Quark soft­ware is used by mil­lions of cus­tomers around the world, and the com­pa­ny is guid­ing the cre­ation of vital open stan­dards to pro­mote pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and inter­op­er­abil­i­ty through­out the indus­try. With a new gen­er­a­tion of prod­ucts and solu­tions, Quark is help­ing its cus­tomers cre­ate, man­age, per­son­al­ize, and dis­trib­ute con­tent to a vari­ety of media for­mats and devices at low cost. Founded in 1981, Denver-based Quark Inc. is pri­vate­ly held.