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Quark Partners with lynda.com to Provide Training Video in All QuarkXPress 7 Boxes; Premier Video Training Will Educate QuarkXPress 7 Users about New Features and Innovative Technologies
[May 09, 2006]

Quark Partners with lynda.com to Provide Training Video in All QuarkXPress 7 Boxes; Premier Video Training Will Educate QuarkXPress 7 Users about New Features and Innovative Technologies


DENVER --(Business Wire)-- May 9, 2006 -- Quark Inc. announced today that every QuarkXPress 7 product box will include a training video produced by lynda.com, the industry leader in video-based solutions. The video, Getting Started with QuarkXPress 7, consists of a set of training tutorials authored by Jay Nelson, author and editor of Design Tools Monthly, to provide a visual overview of the new features in QuarkXPress 7.

The training video educates QuarkXPress 7 users about the revolutionary features included in this powerful upgrade of the market-leading design and publishing software. QuarkXPress 7 combines more design features with collaboration, multi-channel publishing, and job-driven workflow capabilities to deliver simply faster creative development.

"Quark is providing the most effective form of in-the-box training to allow our customers to discover and start applying the new features of QuarkXPress 7 to their everyday page layout workflows," said Scott Allan, director of marketing for Quark. "Partnering with lynda.com to produce this video has enabled us to respond directly to customer requests to provide in-the-box training materials. We look forward to continuing to offer our customers this type of training in the future."


"We are thrilled that Quark looked to lynda.com to produce their first training video to accompany this significant upgrade of QuarkXPress," said Garo Green, COO of lynda.com. "Quark has introduced new and innovative features within QuarkXPress 7, and these videos do a great job of getting customers up to speed with those features quickly."

In addition to English, the QuarkXPress 7 training video will be available in both French and German and will be included in all QuarkXPress 7 Passport boxes.

About Quark

Quark Inc. (www.quark.com) is an industry-leading software company providing design, production, and collaboration solutions that are transforming the business of creative communications. Quark has provided award-winning software for professional publishers since its flagship product, QuarkXPress, changed the course of traditional publishing. Founded in 1981, Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.

About lynda.com

lynda.com is an award-winning education provider of Hands-On Training instructional books, CD- and DVD-based video training, self-paced online learning, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists. Since 1997, lynda.com has been helping people learn fundamental design principles along with the latest software, technologies, and techniques to communicate more effectively in print, on the Web, and through motion graphics.

Quark and Quark-related marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Quark Inc. and all applicable affiliated companies, Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. and in many other countries. All other marks are the properties of their respective owners.

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