Archive for August, 2006
PAF Announces Florida Print Awards
The Printing Association of Florida (PAF) today announced that 69 Florida-based printing, graphic arts companies and schools were awarded at the Printing Association of Florida’s 19th Annual Florida Print Awards, July 29th at a banquet dinner held at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, Orlando. The 2006 Best of Show Trophy winners include Franklin/Trade Graphics, LLC from Miami who was awarded the Spinola Printers Supply Inc. Golden Flamingo Trophy for capturing the most Best of Category honors; The Redd Paper Company Award, Best of Show, Division I: Carter Printing, Tampa; The Eastman Kodak Company Graphic Communications Group Award. Best of Show, Division II: The Color Express, Hialeah; The xpedx Award, Best of Show, Division III: Franklin/Trade Graphics, LLC, Miami; The Mac Papers, Inc. Award, Best of Show, Division IV: Procoel, S.A. Mexico. In the Best of Show, Student Division, the award went to Carine Carmack, Valencia Community College, Orlando.
“The Florida Print Awards set a record number of entries this year and we are proud to report that we exceeded our old record of 888 entries set in 2001,” said Michael Streibig, president and CEO of the Printing Association of Florida. “This year, we beat that record by 129 with an impressive 1,017 entries from 69 printing companies and 198 student entries from 19 Florida schools.”
Markzware Announces InDesign to QuarkXPress 7
Markzware, developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the conversion utility ID2Q7, InDesign To QuarkXPress for versions 6.x through 7.
According to Jay Nelson, editor of Design Tools Monthly: “ID2Q solves a giant problem for many design studios. Being able to open an InDesign document in QuarkXPress makes it possible for those who tried InDesign but prefer QuarkXPress to salvage the projects they created in InDesign. It vastly increases page layout options for the entire industry.”
Prospect Smarter Releases prospectLINKS™ Version 4.0
Prospect Smarter’s new Version 4.0 of prospectLINKS™, an easier-to-use and more affordable Personal URL System, is turning heads at smaller companies which until now were passing on PURLs.
Prospect Smarter President and CEO, Steven Tingiris said, “We regularly saw our larger customers using personalized URLs to increase their direct mail response rates by 30-50% and often a lot more. But many smaller companies were passing on PURLs because the costs and technical requirements involved in setting up a personal URL campaign were too much. With this version of prospectLINKS, our mission was to make a personal URL system that was easy and affordable enough to be used in any direct mail campaign — regardless of the size or budget.”