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DK&A Inc. announces upgrade of its INposition software for publishers and printers.


SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 1995--DK&A Inc. Wednesday announced an upgrade to its line of easy-to-use imposition software.

INposition 1.6 is now available with features that provide even more flexibility and ease of use for the publishing industry.

Being previewed this week at DK&A's booth no. 1937 at Seybold San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  '95, Sept. 27-29, INposition 1.6 includes a new PostScript Filter that has improved importability. The new filter will accept all PostScript files that can be converted to PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  format using Acrobat Distiller A function in earlier versions of Acrobat that converted PostScript files to PDF. It was later integrated into Acrobat. See Acrobat.  through QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Framemaker and many other programs.

"INposition 1.6 provides the pre-press industry with the fastest, easiest-to-use and most cost-effective professional for imposing the simplest to the most complex jobs," said David King David King may refer to:
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, president of DK&A. "The new PostScript Filter gives users the ultimate flexibility by allowing the importation of files from most, if not all, applications."

Additional features of INposition 1.6 include:

-- Ability to duplicate a Sheet Guide Style

-- A step and repeat feature has been added for press mark

placement

-- User-definable collating marks (size, percent gray, position,

allows overprint o·ver·print  
tr.v. o·ver·print·ed, o·ver·print·ing, o·ver·prints
To imprint over with something more, especially to print over with another color.

n.
1. A mark or impression made by overprinting.
)

-- User-definable crop marks Printed lines on paper used to cut the form into its intended size.  (thickness and length) provide

flexibility and ease of use

-- Crop marks around each page allow ganging of non-imposed

pages on the same piece of film

-- Ability to print discontinuous discontinuous /dis·con·tin·u·ous/ (dis?kon-tin´u-us)
1. interrupted; intermittent; marked by breaks.

2. discrete; separate.

3. lacking logical order or coherence.
 plates/color separations (i.e.

plates 1,3,5 - Black & Cyan)

-- Tools acting on a range of pages in Reader's mode allows

global offsetting, scaling and rotation of pages.

System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule.  

As an XTension to QuarkXPress, INposition works on any Macintosh using QuarkXPress version 3.11 or greater. It is compatible with both 68K and PowerPC machines. A version accelerated for Power Macintosh See Power Mac.

(computer) Power Macintosh - Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator.
 is available at no extra charge. INposition 1.6 requires a minimum of 8MB of RAM, and the Macintosh system 7.0.1 or later.

Availability and Pricing

INposition 1.6 is priced at $2,395 for both the U.S. and international versions. INposition 1.6 is available in French, German and Japanese. Future foreign releases include Spanish, Dutch Chinese, Korean and Italian.

INposition 1.5.x users may upgrade to INposition 1.6 for $49. Registered users who purchased INposition 1.5.x after Aug. 1, 1995, will receive a free upgrade automatically. To register, contact a local representative or the main office at 1010 Turquoise St., Suite 300, San Diego, Calif. 92109, or call 800/598-8118 or 619/488-8118, fax is 619/488-4021.

DK&A also offers a fully functional 30-day evaluation copy of INposition 1.6 for only $95, which may be applied to the full purchase price. A free demonstration copy is also available.

With headquarters in San Diego, DK&A develops and markets a diverse line of prepress software products for the printing industry. DK&A has national and international VARs and distributors throughout the world.

CONTACT: DK&A Inc.

Robert Kline, 619/488-8118

or

McQUERTERGROUP, San Diego

Annette Larkin, 619/450-0030
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