QPS for Marketing Communications and Creative Departments

Take control and reduce the cycle time to produce accurate, high-impact marketing collateral.

Today's consumers can find and compare product information in a matter of minutes. This means that your marketing team is under fire to deliver product information, including printed and Web-ready collateral, fast and with spot-on accuracy. But are the writers, designers, and reviewers in your process stumbling over each other as they do their part in a cumbersome, e-mail based workflow? How many opportunities have you missed to get your message in front of customers due to this painstakingly slow, error-prone process?

Reach your customers and potential customers faster. Quark Publishing System can help.

• Speed: Streamline the Creation and Delivery of Marketing Collateral
  QPS lets you create an automated workflow to route files to the next person or step in the workflow, improving job management and speeding up the overall production process. With QPS, multiple users can work and contribute simultaneously to a single project and provide real-time updates to everyone in the workflow. QPS Web Hub easily integrates agencies, freelancers and remote contributors anywhere in the world into the workflow via a Web browser for text editing and general project management.
• Flexibility: Use Both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign in the Same Workflow System
  Through QPS® XTensions® for Adobe® InDesign®, easily include existing projects from QuarkXPress/QuarkCopyDesk and InDesign/InCopy® in a single workflow system. Manage all of your creative assets more efficiently; automate the routing of projects from either application in one workflow; monitor the status of projects in both programs; and achieve savings from reduced administration, training, and hardware costs.
• Accuracy: Eliminate Errors on the Front-end
  Using Quark® Job Jackets® on the QPS server, evaluate projects early in the design process to prevent errors and ensure design consistency during the production process.
• Control: Manage Content and Assets Effectively
  Store all project content and assets — in multiple languages — directly in QPS. Automatic versioning on check-in ensures the most recent version of an asset is used while earlier versions are stored on the QPS server. Integration with Alfresco™, picturesafe myCONTENT, and Canto® Cumulus® makes archiving and re-purposing of content easy.
• Impact: Increase Your Design Capability
  QPS 8 is compatible with QuarkXPress 8, so your creative professionals can work faster and smarter; create print, Web, and Flash® design using one software application; and take control of their design so they can push their concepts further.
• Productivity: Automate Tasks
  Define server-side scripts to automate tasks and create Flash® and XML output, PDF/X, EPS, or PostScript® files, or automatically convert images from one format into different formats.