The problem is that the printing industry is very capital intensive and low margin. You have all kinds of print houses with stuff that costs a lot and they don't make so much money that they can retool everything just to run a different software package. Quark Xpress is just the tip of the iceberg as far as this goes. I thought Quark sticking with OS 7 b/w menus was wierd. However, in the grander scheme of things it makes sense: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Most print shops I've seen don't even run Xpress 5 because Xpress 4 became the standard. Most smart designers will send me coupons in Illustrator eps version 7 because that is the max that can be imported in Xpress 4. For most little things, there are tools better than Xpress, even though I used to use Xpress for them. The stuff that requires Xpress I can use Classic mode in X; I feel bad for the folks stuck in 9 world because Xpress is their principal app.