Contact: Tim Sexton, VP Marketing / Michelle Cowan, Marketing Coordinator
ZBE, Incorporated, 1035 Cindy Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93013 USA
Phone: (805) 576-1600; fax: (805) 576-1601
Email: info@zbe.com

Chromira Summer Bash 2003
ZBE's Service Department Throws 3rd Annual Chromira Convention

Carpinteria, CA - ZBE, Incorporated concluded its third annual Chromira Users Group Summer Bash this past June. Though the conference gave attendees a hands-on opportunity to learn more about maintaining and using their Chromira RA4 Digital Photographic Printers, the sessions were were mainly geared towards the applications of digital imaging, from color management to balancing to utilizing ZBE's imaging and packaging Chromira softwares, WorkStream and WorkStation. Said Ron Gin, ZBE's Service Manager, "The users already know how to use their Chromiras. We were interested in using this year's meeting to help them be more effective with the steps that come pre-printing."

The Chromira Users Group Summer Bash 2003 was held in Carpinteria, California where ZBE is headquartered, just 10 miles south of downtown Santa Barbara. It lasted 3 days from June 26-28. Attendees of ZBE's conference were domestic Chromira users, several of which had been present at past Chromira Users Group seminars. ZBE's Chromira convention consisted of two days of user training sessions, and several events designed to help create a dialog with users and ZBE employees, which included ZBE's good-bye event, a whale watching trip from Santa Barbara.

Though many of the sessions were presided over by ZBE's Service Department, who sponsored the event, guest speakers were also in attendance. ZBE's color management consultant, Jon Meyer of GrafixGear discussed issues of color management and monitor profiling, and Photofinishing News's Don Franz rounded out the conference with a session concerning the current state of the photo printing industry and ways to market a lab's digital services in it. The Chromira Users Group sessions also featured discussions of ZBE's future products, the Chromira5x Lab, Chromira5x 30 and Chromira5x 50 printers. The new Chromira5x printers of special importance to current Chromira owners because of the upgrade option available to them. ZBE-hosted functions such as dinners and ZBE's wrap-up whale watching tour allowed Chromira owners, technicians, and their families to have fun, mingle with ZBE employees, and informally network and share information.

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.