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Awarded 5 stars by Publish magazine, QC was first to bring a new kind of Quality Control to QuarkXPress users. It's been greatly improved over the years to help you eliminate problems before they happen! Save most of the time that is wasted between production studios and proof reading by running a QC check. Besides all the standard checks on pictures such as effective resolution, RGB, missing fonts, etc. QC will catch many of the problems that a proof reader would normally flag like a space before a comma, misaligned boxes, text outside of live area (and many more). As a native XTension for QuarkXPress, QC quickly generates an interactive list of problems. Click on an item in the list, and QC transports you to that part of the document, where you'll find the problem highlighted. Once your document is perfect, you can easily collect it for output using QC Collect, along with graphics and fonts used (including the ones in your EPS files). QC Collect can collect many documents at once and combine shared fonts and graphics.

• Super-handy QC Palette runs preset checks on items, pages or document
• Includes basic proofreading module which reduces errors
• Comprehensive list of text, picture, item, document and color checks.
• Trigger checks or reminders on events such as picture import or save.
• Finds hidden items and many things other preflight software misses
• Includes QC Collect, the Collection Bin for the desktop and the free Bureau Utility to show if document "passed" or "failed"
• Text Checks
  
  
  • Missing fonts (now lists fonts)
  • Tracking amount (greater than or less than a user defined amount)
  • Horizontal scaling (greater than or less than a user defined amount)
  • Overflows
  • Widows and orphans (stranded words)
  • Baseline shift (user defined amount)
  • Excessive paragraph returns (user defined amount)
  • Excessive spaces (between words)
  • Styled text (such as using command-I instead if the correct italic version of the font)
  • Altered styles (style sheets not adhered to)
  • Proofreader function: Common text/editorial problems such as: no space before/after punctuation; two spaces after punctuation; no kerning around ones (1); ® which are not superior and many more things that proof readers labor over
  • Spot Color usage
  • Special words such as brand names that are not formatted properly
• Picture Checks
  
  
  • RGB usage
  • Spot Color usage
  • Inadequate Resolution
  • Excessive Resolution
  • Scaled bitmaps
  • Rotated graphics
  • Skewed graphics
  • Flipped graphics
  • Missing graphics
  • Missing fonts in EPS
  • No background on TIFF
  • Modified graphics
  • LZW compression in use
  • JPEG compression
• Color Checks
  
  
  • Spot color usage
  • Non-Pantone spot color usage
  • Unapproved color usage
  • Improper Ink saturation
  • Small type on multi-plates
  • Hairlines on multi-plates
  • Colorized pictures
  • Registration color usage
  • XPress blends in use
  • Irregular trapping
• Item Checks
  
  
  • Horizontal alignment
  • Vertical alignment
  • Run arounds (consistency)
  • Rule weight (consistency)
  • Frames weight (consistency)
  • Suppressed items
  • Spot color usage
  • Text outside of live area (margins)
  • Covered items
  • Empty contents
  • Inconsistent bleed
• Document Checks
  
  
  • Items on pasteboard
  • Too many/few items
  • Too many/few pages
  • Too many/few sections
  • Blank pages