Contact: Tim Sexton, VP Marketing / Michelle Cowan, Marketing Coordinator
ZBE, Incorporated, 1035 Cindy Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93013 USA
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ZBE - "Preferred and Recommended Vendor" of Independent Photo Imagers (IPI)

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: ZBE, Incorporated, a leader in wide-format LED digital imaging, announces a new alliance with Independent Photo Imagers (IPI), in which the West Virginia-based association officially recognizes ZBE's excellence in product quality and customer service. In acknowledgement of the benefits ZBE's products provides, such as with their Chromira RA4 digital photographic printers, IPI has selected ZBE as a "Preferred and Recommended Vendor" for its members.

"We are very pleased with having ZBE qualifying and joining IPI as a Preferred and Recommended Vendor. They share our members' objectives of providing the highest quality service and photofinishing to the discriminating consumer and business professional. With over 450 IPI member locations in the United States capable of providing digital imaging in one form or another, and with ZBE's experience and state of the art digital imaging products, consumers will benefit greatly from this relationship," remarked President of IPI, Brent W. Bowyer.

"As a respected organization in the photographic imaging industry, IPI provides numerous benefits and services to its members and their customers, with their eye toward the future," responded David J. De Arcos, ZBE National Director of Sales. "We're very fortunate to have earned this relationship with IPI. Choosing ZBE and the Chromira Digital RA4 Printer as a high quality and affordable solution for their members is truly a compliment to us both, with the consumer becoming the ultimate winner."

Independent Photo Imagers (IPI) is a Delaware nonstock corporation. Its members own and operate in excess of 450 business locations providing analog and digital photofinishing services, portrait and photography services, graphics and photo restoration services, retail sales of photo related products and software, retail sales of analog and digital cameras, and retail sales of other goods, products and services. IPI provides its members and its strategic partners the benefits of group buying for photofinishing consumables; photofinishing and digital imaging equipment; retail goods and products and services; cyber and face-to-face national networking; national marketing and advertising; education and fun.

The association has grown continuously since its inception in 1983 and enjoys an average current increase in new members at approximately twenty percent per year. It is headquartered in Charleston, West Virginia and has members throughout the continental United States and Hawaii. To find out more, email them at trena@ipiphoto.com.

ZBE, Incorporated is a pioneer and manufacturer of commercial photo imaging technology. ZBE's hybrid LED imaging technology resulted in the affordable state-of-the-art Chromira 30 and Chromira 50 printers, which produce high-resolution continuous digital photographic prints. The Chromira printing system applies ZBE's highly efficient on-the-fly imaging methodology, which images on photographic media while simultaneously processing the digital image data. This proprietary system produces Chromira's extraordinary on-the-fly workflow productivity.

All user selectable features are applied on-the-fly and are available to every computer on the local area network via Chromira Workstation software. Important features include Automatic Print Nesting, ICC Profiling, Sharpening, Global Color Manipulation, and Real Time File Interpolation. The Chromira printers are designed to print unattended and interface the ChromiraRIP, the Chromira Trims 32, 62 and XYs, automatic print finishing systems available in sizes to complement the 30" and the 50" Chromiras.