Q: What are the biggest advantages of the ProLab?
A. Our key claims have been heralded by ProLab owners: Productivity and cost savings; broad versatility and high efficiency workflow with easy integration.
FAQs for Chromira ProLab
Q. What is “unprecedented productivity”?
A. ProLab owners repeat the following all the time:
- Proven operational, labor, & energy savings
- High print production, including mixed orders
- Easy integration with mixed workflows
- Perfectly color-matched orders
- Automated order management
- Simple operation
- Affordable pricing
- Very low maintenance costs
Q. What is “maximum versatility”?
A. ProLab owners repeatedly share their experiences:
- Small footprint for placement almost anywhere with no darkroom
- Perfectly color matched orders
- Beautiful digital images from 3.5” x 5” (9×12 cm) up to 30 inches x 35 feet (.76 x 10.67 m) from one roll of 30″ media
- Images on all RA4 surfaces, including backlit display films
- Enables imagers to participate in multiple market segments with a more diverse, relevant and exciting portfolio
- Efficient delivery of mixed orders
Q. What is a “high efficiency workflow and easy integration”?
A. Our customers tell us:
- Integrates flawlessly with all popular workflows
- Streamlines workflow for maximum savings in labor, energy, space usage, equipment and maintenance
- For simultaneous orders of any print sizes or combination of print sizes: order managed, color matched, sorted, collated, stacked, ready to bag
- Reduces their complexity and turn-around time, opening new market opportunities
Q: Will the Chromira ProLab workflow integrate with other digital workflow software?
A: Yes. The ProLab was designed to seamlessly integrate with all popular workflow applications to meet your digital production and workflow. They include: Fuji PIC, Kodak DP2, Express Digital, ROES, Labtricity, Frontline, etc.
Q: I use Labtricity and Darkroom to print online orders and orders from customers. Is there another way?
A: Your customers can download WorkStream DS from the ZBE website for free. This will allow your customers to submit corrected orders to your FTP server, which will then be opened in Workstream IA and submitted for printing.
Q. What kind of files can Chromira print?
A: Chromira ProLab will print RGB TIFF, JPEG and BMP files. TIFF files may be either PC or MAC type. Other file types (such as Postscript) must first be converted to TIFF in order to be printed on the Chromira ProLab. Postscript files are converted to TIFF files with a Raster Image Processor (“RIP”).
Q: What size prints can the Chromira ProLab make?
A: Chromira ProLab can make prints 3.5″ (9×12 cm) to 30″ (76cm) wide by 35 (10.67m) feet long.
Q: Does the Chromira ProLab cut prints to size?
A: The Chromira ProLab cuts, stacks, and collates most sizes of prints with its XY cutter. The smallest size Chromira ProLab can cut is 3.5” x 5” (8.9 x 12.7cm). Chromira ProLab cuts all finished sizes up to 12” x 30” (30.5 x 76cm), and any print that is 30” wide, fully automatically. Some odd sized larger prints require trimming one edge.
Q: What size paper does the Chromira ProLab take?
A: The ProLab now supports print roll widths from 30” (76cm) down to 10” (25.5cm). However, the Chromira ProLab truly needs only one size of paper: 30” (76cm). This size will best utilize its unique cutting, sorting, and stacking capabilities, as well as the ProLab’s automatic nesting workflow.