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 Introduces the WorkStream RE Image Rendering Module for WorkStream IA
WorkStream RE allows WorkStream IA to interface with any printer.

Carpinteria, CA, USA - ZBE, Inc. introduces WorkStream RE, the latest productivity tool to compliment ZBE's powerful suite of WorkStream order management and digital print production software. Working seamlessly with the WorkStream IA (Imaging Automation) production application, WorkStream RE (Rendering Engine) will create, render and distribute completed orders of printer-ready image files to any RGB printer. WorkStream RE provides valuable multi-printer workflow integration for utilizing WorkStream's print production, packaging and customer interfacing capabilities.

WorkStream RE will deliver final purposed image files directly to any specified hot folder, enabling easy integration with most digital print production software applications. In addition to hot folder automation, WorkStream RE currently offers direct interface with Noritsu MP-1600 digital printers and will soon offer direct integration with other popular digital minilabs and printers.

WorkStream RE generates final RGB TIFF, JPG, and BMP image files from customized orders prepared and submitted through the WorkStream IA and WorkStream DS applications. ZBE's WorkStream IA manages the order management and the print production processes in the digital photo lab or the imaging service bureau. In the professional lab, WorkStream IA handles all aspects of order creation, management and production from order entry and scanning, through color correction, cropping and retouching, to scheduling and printing. In addition, WorkStream IA provides package creation, composites, with image rendering tools to produce exciting new customized products.

WorkStream IA is designed to seamlessly accept photographer- or studio- prepared orders for fast and accurate order fulfillment between the lab and their customers, utilizing the compatible WorkStream DS (Digital Studio) application.

WorkStream DS (Digital Studio) runs in the photographer's studio. WorkStream DS is used to prepare images and orders that will be printed at the photo lab. All aspects of the order can be entered directly by the photographer including image color corrections, cropping and composition, retouching and product selection. WorkStream DS automatically generates an order archive and database for the studio. Orders prepared in WorkStream transfer seamlessly to the photo lab for automated production. A key benefit of WorkStream DS is that it allows the lab's customers to efficiently transfer precisely prepared, cropped, and edited final orders and image files via the Internet or CD to a WorkStream IA imaging lab.

For further information about WorkStream's IA, DS, and RE applications and how to download them, call ZBE at 805-576-1600 or visit www.zbe.com.