New Prices Active March 1st

New frame and lens price guides were mailed out by February 18th and should be delivered at your clinic. If you have not already located them, please ask your mail room. If needed, Encore can email PDF copies or custom markup versions (such as 20% increase or fitting fee) for pricing directly to patients.

Included in the packet of information may also be new frame stickers, for frames that have changed prices. Be sure to change them out so that you can accurately quote prices to patients.

Lastly, please read the included newsletter describing lens discontinuations, new products, frame changes, and changes to high power ranges.

Transitions Colors Discontinuation

We have had a high rate of optical aberration and distortion on our 1.67 Transitions product. Upon investigation we have learned that on some colors they are using MR-7 material instead of MR-10 and the lower melting point is causing the lens to distort and fall out of acceptable tolerances. The following colors will be removed from ordering until we can source a new supplier.

• 1.67 Transitions GenS Ruby

• 1.67 Transitions GenS Sapphire

• 1.67 Transitions GenS Amethyst

• 1.67 Transitions GenS Emerald

• 1.67 Transitions GenS Amber

High index 1.67 Transitions will still be available in Gray, Brown, Gray-green (Graphite Green), XTRActive Gray, and XTRActive Brown.

Photo Dark Temporary Discontinuation

Due to quality issues in our photochromic DARK products, we will be temporarily discontinuing the product line. Defects were due to bubbles and pits in the scratch coat causing low yields and reworks in the lab before we were able to ship a defect free pair. Photo dark products sold in the last year will continue to perform excellently and we hope to offer it in the future after cosmetic defects from the manufacturer upstream are addressed.

Measuring Office/Computer Lenses

When it comes to checking the power of an office lens the total near power is the area of focus. Often, centration charts for these lenses only have a near reference point and no “distance/intermediate” reference point marked out for the lens.

The invoice will list the ordered prescription (thin font) and the compensated powers (bold font) on the invoice. These bold values will be for the near reference point, and the “add” power will instead be how much power is backed off (more minus) for patients intermediate power.

What is nice about the office/computer lenses is that there is no need for a intermediate power refraction, and the software will instead determine the correct power for the top portion depending on the version of the office lens selected. Make sure to enter the full distance refraction and full add power when ordering. Options for intermediate distances are 1.3meter (4ft), 2meter (6.5ft), 4meter (12ft), and 6meter (18ft).

Endless office is Encore’s newest office lens that brings Digital Ray Path 2 to our computer lens offerings. There is no price difference when upgrading from IOT Reader II, and can be ordered right now!

Compensated Prescriptions & Digital Lens Designs (REPOST)

Compensated lens designs have improved the ability of the laboratory and optician to tailor lenses for each patient and frame. Due to many of our accounts using compensated designs for the first time we want to talk about what is going on and what to expect.

• Compensated designs take into account how the frame and lenses sit on a patients face, and this nearly always differs from the angle of a phoropter the doctor uses. Due to this, we need to consider the differences and make changes to the refracted prescription so that the patient receives non-distorted vision.

• The measurements used to calculate the differences are called position of wear measurements (POW). They typically include pantoscoptic tilt, frame wrap angle, back vertex distance, and sometimes near working distance.

• To improve a patient’s vision with compensated lens designs the optician does not need to take the additional position of wear measurements, but if done, will produce an even more most accurate pair of lenses.

  • Some designs, like as our IOT Universal progressive use default values for pantoscopic tilt, vertex, and frame wrap that is closer to the actual measurements vs the refracted prescription. So even though the POW measurements weren’t done the result is a more accurate lens.

• When ordering a compensated (most digital lens designs) lens, make sure that you check the prescription measured in a lensometer against the bold values next to the ordered prescription. This is the compensated prescription cut into the lens for best visual acuity.

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SpecCheck Integration!

We’ve just completed our installation of SpecCheck, and can accept orders through the software! This browser-based optical software has been built from the ground up to be more user friendly. SpecCheck learns your preferred lens products and makes them easier to select during order entry, instead of searching through dropdowns.

The software is improving daily and we are working with the SpecCheck team to continually improve the experience. Encore Vision hopes to use this partnership to bring a better system to our opticians and dispensers in the field. More information to come.

Summer Polarized Special ends Sept. 30th,2024

Encore Vision has discounted polarized single vision and digital lenses by 40% through September 30th. Materials included in this promotion are Polycarbonate, Trivex, and 1.67 Index. Call for additional details and updated price guides.

Backside-only Anti-Reflective Changes

We’ve made changes on how we handle orders with anti-reflective (AR) coatings when applied to polarized or dark #3 sun tinted lenses. Previously, Encore Vision would opt-in orders that were both (polarized/#3 tint) and had an AR coat into a backside-only anti-reflective. This was to preserve the cosmetic lens tint color on the front of the eyewear, and to keep light transmittance low so that the lenses could reject more sunlight.

We still suggest backside-only AR on sunwear for the above reasons, but it must be requested during ordering so that we do not make an unwanted change on your behalf. The backside only AR carries the same one year warranty as our Oxide 1YR AR and has the same cost. If you place orders through RxWizard the coating code is OXB for Oxide backside-only AR.