Quark's New Alliance With Digital Asset Management

Quark and Canto have formed an alliance to tightly integrate QuarkXPress 7 with Canto's Cumulus digital-asset management (DAM).

Quark and Canto have formed an alliance to tightly integrate QuarkXPress 7 with Canto's Cumulus digital-asset management (DAM).

The alliance is claimed to enable more efficiency and provide quicker availability for creative professionals.

In addition, Canto has announced two new products that provide integrated support for QuarkXPress 7 and Quark Dynamic Document Server (QuarkDDS) in the Canto Cumulus product line.

By exploiting Canto's DAM tools within two of the new features in QuarkXPress 7, Composition Zones and Job Jackets technology, QuarkXPress customers can manage assets and produce projects more efficiently whilst avoiding costly errors, said Quark.

The integration between Canto and QuarkXPress is also claimed to allow improvements in availability by providing QuarkXPress users with direct access to the Cumulus system so that they can exchange, store and retrieve assets, such as QuarkXPress projects, Job Jackets, text, and picture elements.

Canto also plans to integrate Cumulus with QuarkDDS, a core technology for creating customised, creative communications for multi-channel delivery to print, e-mail, and the web, added Quark.

Jennifer Neumann, chief executive officer of Canto, said: "Page layout design and digital-asset management tools need to be used in conjunction in order to work efficiently.

We recognised that QuarkXPress 7 has two unique and key conceptual features with Quark Job Jackets and Composition Zones that are vital for our customers." She added: "By working together with Quark, we are providing customers with powerful publishing tools that yield optimal results." Richard Pasewark, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Quark, added: "Integrating digital-asset management in to design and page layout tools is essential in today's high-paced design and production industry.

Canto's scalable digital-asset management system and proven leadership in the market were an easy choice for Quark.

We are very pleased to enter in to this alliance to provide our customers with innovative systems that can be used to make their design and production workflows more efficient.".

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