Q: What are the biggest advantages of the Chromira SE Lab?
A. The SE Lab ensures high productivity, cost savings, broad versatility, and high efficiency workflow and easy integration.
FAQs for Chromira SE Lab Product Page
Q. What is “high productivity”?
A.: SE owners realize:
- Proven operational and energy savings
- Simple operation
- High volume print production
- Use of available labor to sort and cut prints and assemble order packages
- Easy integration with workflows
- Perfectly color matched prints
- Affordable pricing
- Very low maintenance costs
Q. What cost savings will I see?
A. Chromira SE labs experience:
- Operational and energy savings
- Effective labor utilization where resources are available and/or comprise a relatively small portion of operational expense.
Q. What is “broad versatility?”
A. SE Lab owners achieve:
- Small footprint for placement almost anywhere with no darkroom
- Perfectly color matching at all print sizes
- Beautiful digital images from 2-up wallets up to 30” x 35 feet 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
Q. What is a “high efficiency workflow and easy integration?”
A. Experience:
- Flawless integration with all popular workflows
- Streamlines workflow for maximum savings in energy, space usage, equipment and maintenance
- Uses available lab labor in sorting and cutting prints and assembling packages
- Reduces the turn-around time in opening new market opportunities
Q: Will the Chromira SE Lab workflow integrate with other digital workflow software?
A: The SE Lab 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, Workstream, etc.
Q. What kind of files can the Chromira SE Lab print?
A: The Chromira SE Lab 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 Se Lab. Postscript files are converted to TIFF files with a Raster Image Processor (“RIP”).
Q: What size prints can the Chromira SE Lab make?
A: The Chromira SE Lab can make prints of any size up to 30” (76cm) wide by 35 (10.67m) feet long.
Q: Does the Chromira SE Lab cut prints to size?
A: Yes, depending on the length of your roll and the size of your print. The Chromira SE Lab cuts prints across the width of the paper. If you have a 20” roll and are cutting 20”x30” prints, they will be cut to size. If you are producing smaller prints, they will need to be trimmed.
Q: What size paper does the Chromira SE Lab take?
A: The SE Lab now supports print roll widths from 30” (76cm) down to 10” (25.5cm).