Future Publishing has become the latest UK magazine publisher to sign up for Markzwares MarkzNet web-based pre-flighting service, supplied by RES Distribution.


Future has been operating a 100% digital publishing process since the beginning of the year. It receives 2,000 digital ad files across its 83 titles every month.


It operates two ad submission deadlines for each title: one for Quark files and one for PDFs. It plans to encourage customers to adopt PDFs through MarkzNet.


RES product manager Tim Cox said Futures decision to go for MarkzNet was "a great endorsement of its capabilities".


IPC has already signed up for the system, which it runs through Polestar Imaging.


MarkzNet can pre-flight native document files, PDFs and PostScript files via the internet. Jobs never leave customers hard disks if they do not meet a pre-defined standard and each job is accompanied by a TrueFile specification that includes data like job tickets.


Markzware has yet to finalise pricing for the service, but European managing director David Dilling said it had dropped plans to solely charge on a per-file basis for large companies, who "would rather pay more up front".


Story by Gordon Carson