Quark wraps up 2006 with numerous awards and accolades

PRESS RELEASE

SAN FRANCISCO (Macworld) – January 10, 2007 – The year 2006 was a big one for Quark Inc. The com­pa­ny is at the top of its game with inno­v­a­tive and award win­ning prod­uct releas­es. Trade show floors were buzzing about QuarkXPress 7, Quark Print Collection, QuarkXPress Server 7, and Quark Interactive Designer. 

“This is an excit­ing time to be part of the Quark team,” said Ray Schiavone, pres­i­dent and CEO. “Quark paved the way with great prod­uct releas­es and award-winning soft­ware — you can feel the change and excite­ment at Quark.”

QuarkXPress 7, the lat­est ver­sion of the company’s flag­ship desk­top pub­lish­ing soft­ware, was award­ed “Best of Show” by the Macwelt edi­tors at the MacExpo trade show and con­fer­ence in Cologne, Germany in June. The award was one of six that Macwelt hand­ed out to acknowl­edge new prod­ucts that dis­played inno­va­tion and gen­er­at­ed excite­ment at the event. 

At the MacWorld UK expo in August, Quark cleaned up again with two awards for QuarkXPress 7: The “Editor’s Choice” award and the “Best Creative Software” award. Winners came from an exten­sive and var­ied list that Macworld UK edi­tors com­piled dur­ing a year of fast-paced change in the Macintosh com­put­er indus­try. The Macworld UK edi­tors wrote: “In terms of prac­ti­cal design pro­duc­tion, QuarkXPress 7 is sec­ond to none.”

QuarkXPress 7 wasn’t the only inno­v­a­tive soft­ware release from Quark in 2006. Quark also debuted Quark Interactive Designer, which made a splash at MacExpo in October by win­ning the cov­et­ed “Best of Show” award. Quark Interactive Designer is an inno­v­a­tive new prod­uct that enables cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als to lever­age their skills to cre­ate rich, inter­ac­tive con­tent using QuarkXPress 7.

The year wrapped up with the German Printing Industry Innovation Award. Various experts in the field of pub­lish­ing decid­ed which soft­ware prod­uct they con­sid­ered the most inno­v­a­tive solu­tion or devel­op­ment for the pro­duc­tion of print­ed prod­ucts, and Quark came out on top.

In addi­tion to grant­i­ng awards, review­ers were rav­ing about Quark in 2006. “First, let me say I’m very impressed with QuarkXPress 7’s new features,” said David Creamer of Layers Magazine. Australian Printer also praised QuarkXPress: “With more than 160 new fea­tures and enhance­ments, QuarkXPress 7 is the must-have new release soft­ware for graph­ic professionals.”

Quark fin­ished 2006 with a num­ber of awards under its belt — and 2007 looks to be just as promising. 

For more Quark news from 2006, vis­it the Quark Web site at ( www​.quark​.com/​a​b​o​u​t​/​i​n​t​h​e​n​e​w​s​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​c​f​m​?​y​e​a​r=2006)

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.