PRESS RELEASE
London, UK – 16 October 2006 – XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the availability of the new Quark Print Collection(QPC), a comprehensive set of prepress tools for organisations involved in the print production process. Users can choose to impose native QuarkXPress layouts using QuarkXPress 7 or impose PDF files using Adobe Acrobat 7, thereby allowing for maximum flexibility in dealing with customer files in whatever format they are received. Unlike other imposition solutions, all imposition is handled in the print stream, so the source files are not affected.
Quark Print Collection consists of the following software components originally developed by ALAP for prior versions of QuarkXPress:
- Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress 7
- Quark Imposer for Adobe Acrobat 7
- Quark MarkIt for QuarkXPress 7
- Quark Item Marks for QuarkXPress 7
Imposer and Imposer Pro for QuarkXPress 7 ‹ Lets users impose pages from a single QuarkXPress document into 2 up, 4 up or 8 up flats. Imposer gives users full control over creep, bleed, and crossover traps. Whether a production piece is a brochure or a book, Imposer offers a seamless, easy-to-use solution to QuarkXPress.
Features:
€ Three sheet types: 2‑Up, 4‑Up, 8‑Up
€ Five imposition types: Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web, and Sheet Wise € Flip and move pages within a printer flat € Specify the number of pages in a signature € Control plate margins, horizontal, vertical and spread gaps, bleeds, crossover trapping, and creep € Start an imposition at any page in the document € Save frequently used settings as reusable imposition styles € Export imposition styles to share them with other users € Preview any printer flat; control colour depth of previews € Display page boundaries, bleeds, and page numbers in previews as necessary € Support for Tiling € Print with standard QuarkXPress controls
Imposer Pro for Adobe Acrobat – Provides users with the ability to impose PDF pages from within an Acrobat document into 2 up, 4 up or 8 up flats‹all from a simple to use visual interface. Imposer Pro also gives users full control over creep, bleed, and crossover traps and offers binding types for Saddle Stitch, Perfect Bound, Stacked, and None as well as five imposition types‹Standard, Work and Turn, Work and Tumble, Split Web, and Sheet Wise.
Features Include:
€ Three sheet types: 2‑Up, 4‑Up, 8‑Up
€ Five imposition types: Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web, and Sheet Wise € Accommodates for saddle stitched, perfect bound, spiral bound, comb bound, three-hole punched and single cut sheets € Flip and move pages within a printer flat € Specify the number of pages in a signature € Control plate margins, horizontal, vertical and spread gaps, bleeds, crossover trapping, and creep € Start an imposition at any page in the document € Save frequently used settings as reusable imposition styles € Export imposition styles to share them with other users € Preview any printer flat € Display page boundaries, bleeds, and page numbers in previews as necessary
MarkIt – With MarkIt, users can make pages completely ready for press by giving them the ability to position press marks such as trim lines, registration targets, and colour and greyscale bars‹simply by dragging them into a proxy of the active document. MarkIt enables the user to create custom registration styles that can be used in place of QuarkXPress’s default settings and users can customise MarkIt with a logo, a new registration mark, or even a colour or greyscale bar created in any graphics program and saved as EPS files.
XPert Item Marks (part of their XPert Tools XTensions suite) – XPert ItemMarks provides convenient methods for making crop and registration marks for individual items and pages with QuarkXPress. XPert ItemMarks supports the multiple undo and redo feature in QuarkXPress and gives users the ability to control the placement of the crop, bleed, margin marks, guides, and dimension arrows. Users can easily determine the type and placement of the registration marks, including targets, colour bars, and text slugs as well as the layer where marks, guides, and arrows reside and can indicate a location on the page, and a location in relation to the selected item.
System Requirements:
Mac OS
Software
Requires Mac OS® X v10.4 or later
QuarkXPress® 7.01 and/or Adobe® Acrobat® 7 Hardware CD-ROM drive for installation Minimum 128MB total RAM 50MB available hard disk space for XTensions® (QuarkXPress) 5MB available hard disk space for Plug-in (Adobe Acrobat)
Windows
Software
Microsoft® Windows® XP
QuarkXPress 7.0 and/or Adobe Acrobat 7
Hardware
CD-ROM drive for installation
Minimum 128MB total RAM
10MB available hard disk space for XTensions (QuarkXPress) 5MB available hard disk space for Plug-in (Adobe Acrobat)
Quark Print Collection (QPC) is available now through XChange International.
Existing users of ALAP Imposer Pro for QuarkXPress can upgrade to the Quark Print Collection for 50% off until 31st January 2007. The XTension components of the product are in Universal Binary format, however the Imposer Pro plug-in for Acrobat 7 is not yet Universal Binary because Acrobat 7 is not Intel-native. To order, or for more information, users can visit www.xchangeuk.com, or call on +44(0)20 7490 4455 during UK business hours. Email address is info@xchangeuk.com.
XChange are a leading supplier of desktop graphic and publishing applications, QuarkXTension® technology; Adobe InDesign®, Acrobat® and Photoshop® Plug-ins® and other design and publishing utilities. XChange offer extended technology products from across the world specific to the graphic design, print and publishing industries and make them available to an extensive user base via their printed catalogue or online at their web site. The company are headquartered in Central London and also offer specialist training on many of the solutions they sell.