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

ZBE's LED Technology Patented

Santa Barbara, CA , United States - ZBE Incorporated is pleased to announce the patenting of its proprietary Resolution Enhancement LED Technology, U.S. Patent No. 6,452,696 B1, which has been in process since 1999.

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. "Image quality is where our printer really delivers," comments ZBE's president, Zac Bogart. "It was also where we met our biggest challenge in developing the Chromira." ZBE's Resolution Enhancement Technology intensifies the Chromira's 300 ppi imaging resolution to create a visual resolution of 425 ppi. The key to ZBE's LED technology is the use of diamond-shaped pixels. All printers "overlap" adjacent pixels so that they won't be seen with a loupe, but this causes a decrease in sharpness and resolution. The overlap of ZBE's diamond-shaped pixels, however, only creates more smaller, diamond shaped pixels. These already look sharper than traditional round pixels, but overlapping them makes the image look even sharper, enhancing resolution by 50%. As an additional benefit, the pixels blend to create completely uniform exposure density on the page, which hides raster lines.

ZBE, Incorporated is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, USA and has been serving professional imaging needs since 1980. 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.