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“An Improved Automated Workflow for Digital Photo Print Production”

Learn how to Implement Lean Manufacturing with the Chromira products.

Imagers can gain productivity and savings implementing LEAN manufacturing principles. ZBE’s Chromira 5x ProLab was designed in accordance with these LEAN principles. Integration of the ProLab converts a lab’s batch to a flow process reducing cost, inventories, time, energy, labor and movement.

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Chromira 5x ProLab is a “Green Machine”:

Owning a Chromira5x ProLab can help reduce your ecological footprint! This lab solution was designed to reduce power consumption, carbon generation, and paper waste. Customers provide their evidence.

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The future is developed through every day pioneering. Progress foreword is never even. It can be by leap, stride, step or crawl. It occurs through satisfying customer need, exploring market requests, resolving problems, gaining new insights, dreaming or brainstorming. Every day, ZBE seeks to make improvements for its customers worldwide.

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ZBE Releases “Chromira Expert Pro”

ZBE Inc. announces an innovative new software tool suite for Chromira professional photo labs: “Chromira Expert Pro”.  This is a threefold application will greatly enhance diagnostics and technical support, balancing and calibration of Chromira printers, enhancing their workflow effectiveness and efficiency.  The “Chromira Expert Pro” suite is available to all Chromira labs with service agreements.

“ZBE focuses intently on our customers and their workflows.  Based on extensive customer input, we developed “Chromira Expert Pro” to enhance their operations and their yield. This tool suite bundles the breakthrough diagnostics, technical support and reporting of our new “Chromira Expert Tech” with significantly upgraded densitometry and calibration functionalities. We are very excited about the broad benefits of to our customers,” says Zac Bogart, ZBE’s President.

“Chromira Expert Pro” includes the groundbreaking diagnostic, technical support and reporting applications announced as “Chromira Expert Tech”.   These capabilities will speed and enhance troubleshooting.  When an error is reported to ZBE’s Web Service Portal, the “Chromira Expert Tech” software will collect critical customer experience information, including calibration, balance and usage.  It will prompt the Printer Operator to answer specific clarifying questions.  This information will be automatically analyzed by new diagnostic software tools identifying the issue and prospective causes. The data and analysis will be evaluated by ZBE Service Professionals for further testing and verification.  ““Chromira Expert Tech” will save customers time spent in collecting data and answering questions. The Lab’s downtime will be minimized through enhanced problem solving and fast response.

“Chromira Expert Pro” also broadly upgrades current balancing and calibration capabilities in Chromira printers. Densitometry capabilities have been enhanced to improve linearization and the speed and quality of color balance.  The new “Scan Software” will accelerate and improve the calibration of the printer. It will also allow new and future materials to achieve their maximum color gamut. “These new capabilities will provide our customers with significant operational benefits.” says Zac Bogart, ZBE’s President.

ZBE, Incorporated is headquartered in Carpinteria, CA, and has been serving professional imaging needs since 1980, as a pioneer and manufacturer of award-winning commercial photo imaging technology.  ZBE’s hybrid LED imaging technology resulted in the state-of-the-art ProLab, as well as Chromira printers, which produce high resolution continuous digital photographic prints.  To help satisfy demand for reliable and affordable, high-caliber imaging tools, Chromira is offered in several locations around the world.

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ZBE Releases “Chromira Expert Tech”

ZBE Inc. announces an innovative new software tool for Chromira professional photo labs: “Chromira Expert Tech”.  This application will completely change the way in which errors are diagnosed and reported, saving customer time, cost and effort.  The tool will be provided “gratis” to all Chromira labs.
“ZBE constantly aims to assist our customers in workflow efficiency.  We developed “Chromira Expert Tech” to minimize customer downtime.  Its breakthrough diagnostics capabilities, technical support and reporting capabilities will give immediate benefits to our customers,” says Zac Bogart, ZBE’s President.

“Chromira Expert Tech” has groundbreaking diagnostic and reporting applications, which will significantly speed and enhance troubleshooting.  When an error is reported to ZBE’s Web Service Portal, the “Chromira Expert Tech” software will collect critical customer experience information, including calibration, balance and usage.  It will prompt the Printer Operator to answer specific clarifying questions.  This information will be automatically analyzed by new diagnostic software tools identifying the issue and prospective causes. The data and analysis will be evaluated by ZBE Service Professionals for further testing and verification.  “Chromira Expert Tech” will save customers time spent in collecting data and answering questions. The Lab’s downtime will be minimized through enhanced problem solving and fast response.

ZBE, Incorporated is headquartered in Carpinteria, CA, and has been serving professional imaging needs since 1980, as a pioneer and manufacturer of award-winning commercial photo imaging technology.  ZBE’s hybrid LED imaging technology resulted in the state-of-the-art ProLab, as well as Chromira printers, which produce high resolution continuous digital photographic prints.  To help satisfy demand for reliable and affordable, high-caliber imaging tools, Chromira is offered in several locations around the world.

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