Quark Inc. announced yesterday that QuarkXpress 6, the company's flagship product, will ship next week. The long-awaited, industry-standard publishing program features several new enhancements, the most important of which is OSX compatibility.

QuarkXpress 6 features new capabilities like direct PDF export, full-resolution preview, multiple layout sizes and media types in the same project, synchronized text, intuitive Web functionality, and a new window menu that lets you quickly navigate between open files. In addition, the new version is AppleScript-savvy allowing you to connect QuarkXPress to scriptable applications and create an automated workflow.

A new innovation, synchronized text, lets you share a single pool of content across multiple boxes. Update information in one space, and it's updated everywhere. QuarkXPress 6 documents now let you manage your projects in one file, which makes it easier to generate collateral for different formats.

Other productivity enhancements include multiple levels of undo, as well as table and layer improvements. A convenient popup lets you quickly navigate to and from a previous state in the document history. QuarkXPress 6 also lets you undo actions that were previously irreversible, including text and picture import, text linking and style sheet edits.

You can now create smoother blends, manage color at high-end printers and create a print layout space that can output composite color as well as separations. For the web, QuarkXPress offers more control over designing cascading menus, specifying font families for style sheets and creating rollovers.

For more detailed information read the Quark press release.

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The rebates on the Phaser 4400, 8200, 6200 and 7700 will be extended through June 30th. Customers can claim rebates through July 31, 2003. All other terms and conditions still apply.

Phaser® 4400
Up to $200 Back
4400B: $100, 4400N, 4400DT and 4400DX: $200

Phaser® 6200
Up to $300 Back
6200N, 6200DP, 6200DX: $300

Phaser® 8200
Up to $300 Back
8200N: $100, 8200DP: $200, 8200DX: $300

Phaser® 7700
Up to $1000 Back
7700DN, 7700GX and 7700DX: $1000

The rebates are valid on printers purchased by June 30, 2003.

Interested in a custom print sample? Give us a call at (888) 4DC-MACS or (301) 459-3522.

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In a move that has traditionally signaled the impending release of new models, Apple recently (and quietly) dropped the prices on its stylish and popular PowerBook line of laptops.

Positioned as part of it's 'Year of the Notebook' strategy to make laptop computers a larger part of its business, Apple's 12" PowerBook with SuperDrive drops from $1,999 to $1,799 while the 12" PowerBook with Combo Drive drops from $1,799 to $1,599. The 15" PowerBook with Super Drive drops from $2,799 to $2,599 and the 15" PowerBook with Combo Drive drops from $2,299 to $1,999.

The Combo Drive is capable of playing DVD-R and burning CD-RW disks while the SuperDrive is capable of burning both DVD-R and CD-RW discs.

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Adobe recently released Acrobat 6 Professional, the latest update to their industry-standard document creation application. This latest version boasts a host of new features which include document merge, review management, layers and large-format support, built-in preflighting, forms creation, PDF/X compliance, robust commenting tools, enhanced file viewing and navigation.

With this release Adobe has positioned Acrobat to specifically address the needs of print production professionals. The new review and commenting features streamline and automate the management of document review cycles. The new validation, preflighting, PDF/X compliance, color separation previews, and PDF optimization tools make the creation and validation of PDF files intended for print production much easier. Advanced printing controls such as the preview and printing of color separations, and transparency flattening preview, give printers the tools they need to output high quality PDF files.

For more details on Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional...

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Your hard drive just died with your priceless data trapped on it. You didn't make a backup!? What now? No need to panic - call the professionals at DriveSavers.

DriveSavers offers high security data recovery services with a fast turnaround for moments just like these. They can recover your data and have it back to you in as little as 24 hours.

Every drive dies sooner or later - it's just a fact of computing life. The only problem is that it seems to happen at the worst possible moment. If your drive has a terminal problem these are the "go-to" people.

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For more details call DriveSavers at (800) 440 1904 or use the link below.

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As monitors get better and cheaper, sooner or later you are going to find yourself with one or more non-functioning or unwanted ones. Before you start eyeing the dumpster as a possible new home for your old monitors consider the hazards of disposing them in this manner. Your monitors contain a toxic cocktail of elements such as arsenic, mercury, cadmium, beryllium, chromium, nickel, zinc and lead. If your monitor ends up at the landfill these elements will, over time, leach out and contaminate the groundwater. Maybe yours.

Consider e-cycling your monitors (and other computing peripherals which are just as dangerous) in an environmentally responsible manner. As awareness grows some far-sighted manufacturers such as Dell, Viewsonic and Sony have developed recycling programs. Contact them for details. We have compiled a list of resources specific to our local area that you can take advantage of. If you are reading this and your local area is not the same as ours, please contact your local Department of Environmental Services; chances are they already have a program in place.

District of Columbia

Twice yearly. Next collection - Fall. Date TBA
202.727.1000
dpw.dc.gov/main.shtml

VIRGINIA

City of Alexandria
Drop off site - 3600 Wheeler Avenue.
Mondays (except holidays) 10am - 6pm
703.751.5872
www.ci.alexandria.va.us/tes/sw/stop_pgm.html

Arlington County
Twice yearly. Next collection - Fall. Date TBA
703.228.6832
www.co.arlington.va.us/des/envex.htm

Loudon County
Twice yearly. Next collection - Oct. 18 (Tentative)
703.771.5318
www.loudoun.gov/oswm

City of Falls Church
Twice yearly. Next collection - Sept. 6, 9am - 4pm
Falls Church Recycling Center, 217 Gordon Road.
703.248.5176
www.ci.falls-church.va.us/community/recycling.html

Waste Not Recyling
22611 Markey Court, # 103, Sterling
Mon - Fri. Call in advance.
703.787.0200
www.wastenot.net

MARYLAND

Anne Arundel County
Once a year. Next collection - Spring 2004. Date TBA
410.222.7951
www.aadpw.org/trr.htm

Montgomery County
Drop off site - 16101 Frederick Road.
M-F 7:30am - 8pm / Sat 7:30am - 5pm/ Sun 9am - 5pm
301.840.2370
solidwaste.dpwt.com/facilities/transfer_info.htm

Prince George's County
Drop off site - 3500 Brown Station Road.
Sundays (except holidays) 7:30am - 3:30pm
301.883.5045
www.co.pg.md.us

Howard County
Drop off site - Alpha Ridge Landfill.
2350 Marriottsville Road
Mon - Sat 8am - 4pm
410.313.6444
www.co.ho.md.us/dpw/recycling.htm

Subtractions
Drop off site - 10630 Riggs Hill Road, Jessup
Mon - Fri 1pm - 4pm. Other times by prior arrangement
301.362.4000
http://subtractions.net/

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Washington, DC
Phone: 888-4-DC-MACS
e-mail: dcinfo@macmedics.com

Baltimore, MD
Phone: 866-MAC-MEDICS
e-mail: info@macmedics.com

Philadelphia, PA
Phone: 877-626-MEDICS
e-mail: philly@macmedics.com

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