Cherri International, a Brisbane-based reseller that caters to printers, graphic designers, advertising agencies and the creative sector, has been appointed as the co-distributor for QuarkXPress in Australia.

Owner of Cherri International, Mark Wren, who is also the owner of Queensland-based printer After Dark has been using the Quark software for the past 28 years.

“If you have the current version of QuarkXPress you can open your Adobe InDesign files using the software, you can import PDF files, Illustrator, EPS, Word, Publisher and Excel files as native content and make changes, the versatility blows the Adobe equipment off the planet,” Wren explains.

“When we were appointed as co-distributor for Quark the company was happy with the decision because they are now partnered with someone who has been using Quark for a very long time.”

Targeted towards printers, graphic designers and the creative sector, Wren says Quark offers more functionality than its competitor Adobe InDesign.

He adds, “The InDesign software is brilliant and it has its place, but all InDesign has ever tried to do is get where Quark has been for several years.” 

QuarkXPress is a page layout and graphic design software which allows users to create materials for print, web, e-readers, tablets and other digital media. Its first version was released in 1987 for the Macintosh. 

Scholastic, which was the previous distributor of Quark, decided to end the partnership late last year due to the winding down of its technology distribution segment.

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