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

One of ZBE's Own Becomes Dealer for Mexico's Digital Market
Roberto Negrete moves from Service to Sales

July 7, 2003 - Carpinteria, CA, USA: ZBE, Incorporated, a leader in wide-format LED digital imaging, has announced that Roberto Negrete, one of its premier Service Representatives, will be working with the company in a new capacity - sales! Mr. Negrete will still work with ZBE, but as a new distributor of the company's digital imaging Chromira product line in Mexico. Mr Negrete will include sales and service of ZBE's complete line of Chromira digital RA4 printers, cutters and software. In 2004, ZBE's Chromira5x 30, Chromira5x 50, and Chromira5x Lab will become available as well.

ZBE's president Zac Bogart wishes Mr. Negrete well, commenting, "We're very proud of Roberto, and we're very happy to have him representing our company." Mr. Negrete's distribution company TriColor Digital will be headquartered in Jalisco, Mexico and will represent ZBE non-exclusively in Mexico's digital imaging market. TriColor Digital will market and sell, as well as install and service, ZBE's digital imaging products to professional photo labs throughout Mexico. For more information on TriColor Digital, you can visit the web site at www.zbe.com/tricolor or email tricolordigital@aol.com.

For those that have come to depend on Mr. Negrete's expertise, ZBE has integrated two new service representatives into the company in anticipation of Mr. Negrete's departure, which became official in July. David Corker and Sergio Gomez, two highly skilled technicians, have trained with Mr. Negrete and ZBE's other service technicians and are currently active in the service and installation of Chromiras.

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 with the MultiServer with InternetDropBox, the ChromiraRIP, and the Chromira Trim, an automatic print finishing system available in sizes to complement the 30" and the 50" Chromiras.