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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, Inc. Launches WorkStream Version 1.6
With Powerful New Tools for
the Lab and Studio User
August 29, 2003 - Carpinteria, CA, USA –
ZBE Incorporated has just released WorkStream,
Version 1.6, an advanced version of the digital print
production and workflow solution that integrates imaging
lab operations with their digital studio / photographer
customers. This upgrade comes loaded with tons of new
user-requested features that help maximize digital imaging
workflow and enhance productivity. The software complements
ZBE's Chromira 30 and 50 RA4 digital photographic printers,
but now also comes with WorkStream RE, which provides
an automated interface to just about any printer in
the industry. WorkStream will increase your profitability
and decrease the demands on your time. Plus, WorkStream's
lab-studio integration characteristics will help labs
print images just the way their customers want - the
first time.
ZBE's WorkStream software has many key benefits for
a variety of imagers. Especially valuable for portrait/social
labs is a fast drag-and-drop package order creation
feature, with a generous selection of package units.
For volume-production imaging labs, WorkStream IA streamlines
order finishing by integrating job and order grouping
with efficient image nesting and paper management options.
WorkStream will also provide quick automation of composite
templates, allowing an unlimited potential of new imaging
products from simple logos to posters, calendars and
greeting cards. An intuitive and powerful suite of VCNA-style
image-editing controls, with real-time on-screen soft
proofing and integrated color management, speeds image
production. This powerful suite of image editing controls
include on-screen cropping, sizing, rotation, global
color, saturation, contrast, and sharpness control.
Sophisticated retouching is provided via a seamless
integration with PhotoShop.
WorkStream
is comprised of two independent, yet integrated software
applications, WorkStream
IA (Imaging Automation) for imaging labs and WorkStream
DS (Digital Studio) for digital studios and photographers.
"With WorkStream IA, professional imaging labs
can dramatically streamline and automate digital workflow,
and improve production efficiency at virtually every
step of digital production. At the same time, WorkStream
provides seamless integration of orders generated in
the studio by WorkStream DS, requiring little or no
manual handling by the lab," said Zac Bogart, president
of ZBE Inc. "Conventional silver halide workflow
has been highly refined over 30 years and now, WorkStream
provides the same level of refinement to digital imaging
workflow.
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 your studio.
Orders prepared in WorkStream transfer seamlessly to
the photolab 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.
ZBE, Incorporated is headquartered in Santa Barbara,
CA, USA and has been serving professional imaging needs
since 1980. Click here to download
WorkStream DS now.
Contact: Tim Sexton at ZBE, Inc., 1035 Cindy Lane,
Carpinteria, California 93013 USA
Tel: (805) 576-1600, Fax: (805) 576-1601, Email: info@zbe.com
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