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News Release from: Quark Inc | Subject: QuarkXPress 7
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 May 2008
QuarkxPress 7 Increases Newspaper
Efficiency
Quark is helping Turkish newspaper group, Dogan Gazetecilik' production efficiency with QuarkXPress following an update of the entire IT system at the operation.
Dogan Gazetecilik is implementing the latest QuarkXPress 7 software on 114 computers Elma Bilgisayar, provider of integration services to Dogan Gazetecilik since 1990, assisted with the upgrade process to QuarkXPress 7 and redesigning the newspaper's workflows
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 2 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The newspaper holds 23 per cent circulation market share in the Turkish newspaper market and 44 percent in terms of reach.
said Quark.
Yucel Okan Senturk, technology director at Dogan Gazetecilik.
said: "Our editorial and graphic design staff has gained a lot of experience with QuarkXPress throughout the years.
By continuing our good partnership with Quark and upgrading to QuarkXPress 7 we can fully exploit the skills of our team and don't need costly new training." He continued: "We appreciate the Turkish language support of QuarkXPress 7 as well as the possibility to generate PDF files directly from the application without using any other PDF generator product.
Furthermore, Composition Zones will help us streamline our processes.
Our users' productivity is enhanced due to new imaging features otherwise implemented through products like Photoshop." The company publishes daily newspapers, such as the political daily, Milliyet, which is one of the four best selling newspapers in Turkey.
Other daily newspapers published by Dogan Gazetecilik are Radikal, Fanatik and Posta.
Along with coverage of the economy, foreign affairs and politics, business, culture and arts, liberal Radikal features articles by some of the country's academics.
The newspaper closely follows current global news and includes important editorials from around the world.
Fanatik is a sports-only newspaper with an emphasis on football (soccer) and Posta is the company's mass-market newspaper and Turkey' s best selling daily title.
Axel R Paesike, director of sales and services for central Europe at Quark, explained: "The decision of leading publishing companies like Dogan Gazetecilik demonstrates that Quark's commitment to the eastern European market is showing excellent results." He added: "We have continually improved language support for eastern European customers and we are working closely with partners such as Elma Bilgisayar to ensure that our customers not only get the best publishing software available but also manage to upgrade whilst continuing their daily work.".
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