Markzware Software

Markzware, a developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, has donated upgrades of its preflighting and conversion solutions to Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Print Media.

SANTA ANA, Calif.—The University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia has received a $103,389 donation from Markzware, a leading software publishing company. UArts is dedicated to educating creative individuals in the visual, performing, and communicative arts. “We are thrilled with Markzware’s consistent and extraordinary generosity in helping us pursue our educational mission,” according to UArts Professor Harris Fogel, coordinator of the photography program and technology liaison for the College of Arts and Design. “Experts predicted the PDF format would make life easier and less complicated for designers, photographers, printers and other creative folks. With the proliferation of new file formats, font technologies, expansion of

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Markzware has donated software to Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Print Media and the university’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The software donation, including FlightCheck, Q2ID, ID2Q AND MarkzTools, totals more than $41,000. These tools are vital to the document creation process, allowing students to convert documents from one format to another. The software is also utilized in the prepress process and facilitates a necessary step known as preflighting. Preflighting is the reviewing of documents for problems and corrupt files. “We are thrilled Markzware has continued its support of RIT’s School of Print Media and National Technical Institute for the

Pittsburgh, Pa.—Markzware has donated to The Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) a 30-seat license of Flightcheck Professional––a preflight tool for professional designers and prepress production departments within the print and publishing industries. Joseph Marin, senior prepress technologist at PIA/GATF, said, “Flightcheck Professional is an important component to both PIA/GATF production and training programs. Flightcheck Professional is a tool used to efficiently preflight both native application files and PDF files. The software’s user-friendly interface and short learning curve is a perfect fit for our training programs.” PIA/GATF expects that this latest donation from Markzware will continue to keep the graphic arts trade

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Markzware, a leading software publishing company, donated 64 licenses of FlightCheck Professional Version 6, enabling Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department to upgrade its electronic printing and publishing laboratories. The FlightCheck Professional is a prepress application used to manage quality control for print jobs. The solution—designed for creative designers, prepress departments, customer service representatives, and graphics professionals in the digital print and publishing industries—provides both native file and PDF preflight checking. The software helps prepare PDF and other documents for commercial printing, and save printers and publishers time and money by avoiding re-printing jobs. “We use Markzware FlightCheck Pro to teach undergraduates about

GENT, Belgium—Artwork Systems Group N.V., a world leader in professional pre-press software, is investigating claims made by Markzware in a lawsuit filed in the federal district court in Santa Ana, California, that Enfocus products allegedly infringe Markzware’s U.S. patent. The lawsuit, which focuses on two Enfocus software products—PitStop Professional and PitStop Server—comes as a surprise to Enfocus, whose leading PDF preflighting products have been on the U.S. market for many years, according to the company. Artwork Systems Group CEO, Peter Denoo said, “Artwork Systems and Enfocus respect the intellectual property rights of third parties, and are currently conducting a full investigation into what appear

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Markzware announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Los Angeles against ENFOCUS SOFTWARE, Inc., a California corporation; ARTWORK SYSTEMS GROUP, N.V. a Belgian corporation; and ARTWORK SYSTEMS, N.V., a Belgian corporation. The lawsuit alleges that products manufactured and sold by the defendants infringe upon the Markzware U.S. Patent No. 5,963,641 for a ‘Device and method for examining, verifying, correcting and approving electronic documents prior to printing, transmission or recording.’ Markzware preflight products for digital documents include FlightCheck Professional, FlightCheck Designer, FlightCheck Studio, FlightCheck Workflow and FlightCheck Online. The complaint seeks monetary and injunctive relief from all three

In the beginning was computer-to-plate, which begat digital files, which begat much confusion among graphic designers, printers, and prepress service bureaus because customer files were full of errors and omissions. And there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth until lo and behold, the miracle of preflighting came to pass. And there was great rejoicing because, henceforth, all digital files would be automatically checked and corrected before proceeding to the next step in the workflow, saving many costly remakes and much labor. Hallelujah. There’s no denying that preflight software has been a godsend for printers and prepress professionals everywhere since the concept was