Markzware, developer of software solutions for the global printing and graphic arts industries, is pleased to announce immediate availability of FlightCheck® Professional and FlightCheck® Designer version 5.52. This brand new superior update is compatible with both Macintosh OSX and Windows 98 and newer.
FlightCheck Professional is a prepress application for print shops and publishers that sets the standard for digital file quality control (preflighting); FlightCheck Designer is the version used by many graphic artists and design houses. This application has saved the international printing and graphic arts industries hundreds of millions of dollars/euros in reprocessing costs and make-goods. The application supports a wide variety of native application files from popular authoring software vendors like Adobe, Microsoft and Quark. As well, accredited standard preflighting specifications such as PDF/X1, PDF/X1a and PDF/X3 are ‘built-in’ to the application.
"We have had a tremendous response to the 5.5 versions of FlightCheck and now this free update adds even more capabilities," said Patrick Marchese, President/CEO of Markzware. " These new features will help all our FlightCheck customers streamline their workflows. It is faster on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms and now includes a command-line interface for Windows users!"
"The quality control solutions that Markzware offers ensure that the printed piece, whether PDF or other file types, output as expected with no surprises for a proper digital file exchange. If one can create a drawing or schematic of their digital workflow, Markzware’s solutions are open and flexible enough to integrate with third-party applications creating an automated, hands-off approach to processing digital files, with preflighting and postflighting checks along the way."
The new features and functionality in FlightCheck Professional and Designer are:
- Full preflight support for PDF version 1.5
- Optimized performance and faster processing.
- More robust OPI support, including Unix file paths
- User-definable recursive and absolute path searching
- Command-line interface for Windows version.
- "Fill of None" rule has been implemented
- Support for 16-bit TIFF images (Ground Control added)
- Complete detection of application-generated clipping paths
- Automatic FlightPlan and Ground Control switching
Both FlightCheck Professional and Designer v5.52 are available free of charge to registered users of FlightCheck v5.5.
For more information on FlightCheck® Professional and Designer, visit https://www.markzware.com
About Markzware
Markzware is the leading developer of quality-assurance, data conversion and workflow solutions for the international graphic arts, printing, publishing and digital multimedia industries. Markzware is a privately held company based in Santa Ana, California, USA.
This article was last modified on March 29, 2005
This article was first published on March 29, 2005
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