http://m-bossed.com/2010/03/quark-and-adobe.html A Media Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://m-bossed.com/2010/03/quark-and-adobe.html#comment-81 Ryan McAbee Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:45:35 +0000 http://m-bossed.com/2010/03/friend-or-foe-for-adobe-quark-their-actions-speak-for-themselves.html#comment-81 @ Jeff, Good points... Adobe and Quark's business practices share similarities and differences. The similarity is that in both cases the pipeline or input side of print work is not controlled by the printer. By not owning the marketplace, printers have to meet certain requirements for membership and presumably pricing agreements. The difference is in the approach. QuarkPromote, as you point out, offers any printer the opportunity to join and receive work. Adobe's would have sent the work to one single source, Kinko's. Quark also recently stepped up an offer after Adobe canceled/shifted its Print Service Providers plan. @ Jeff,
Good points…
Adobe and Quark’s business practices share similarities and differences. The similarity is that in both cases the pipeline or input side of print work is not controlled by the printer. By not owning the marketplace, printers have to meet certain requirements for membership and presumably pricing agreements.
The difference is in the approach. QuarkPromote, as you point out, offers any printer the opportunity to join and receive work. Adobe’s would have sent the work to one single source, Kinko’s.
Quark also recently stepped up an offer after Adobe canceled/shifted its Print Service Providers plan.

]]> http://m-bossed.com/2010/03/quark-and-adobe.html#comment-80 Jeff Lazerus Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:47:44 +0000 http://m-bossed.com/2010/03/friend-or-foe-for-adobe-quark-their-actions-speak-for-themselves.html#comment-80 Ryan, The difference between the Adobe debacle and QuarkPromote is night and day. Quark is NOT actually using its software to send work to Kinko's. What Quark is doing is sending work from its site to printers who get on their network. It's more work for printers, not less, as in the Adobe case. Quark has always been more printer-friendly than Adobe. Ryan,
The difference between the Adobe debacle and QuarkPromote is night and day. Quark is NOT actually using its software to send work to Kinko’s. What Quark is doing is sending work from its site to printers who get on their network. It’s more work for printers, not less, as in the Adobe case.
Quark has always been more printer-friendly than Adobe.

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