News & Press Releases

 
Downloadable Forms Available Online June 2005

You can now download the sign-up forms for our on-line frame order system to fax back to us.  Also we have our RX forms available to download for printing! 
Please click this link to get to the download page!

 
CSC Celebrates its First Anniversary at its High-tech 53,000 Square-foot Optical Facility in Northern California February 2005

Continental Sales Company of America, Inc. is celebrating its one-year anniversary at its state-of-the-art optical laboratory at Westgate Drive facility Watsonville, California. Launched in 1967, CSC began as a small operation started by D.K. Kim and is now one of the largest national optical labs in the country.

CSC invested over $10 million in the new facility and hundreds of thousands of dollars in the new computerized production lab, which has evolved into a one-stop shop servicing all the needs of optical professionals.

 
CSC’s Virtual Lab Provides Eyecare Professionals the Convenience of Ordering Online February 2005

CSC now offers customers two online ordering systems on their website (www.csclabs.com). Optical professional can place prescription orders and track them through the CSC Virtual Lab 24x7. In addition, CSC also offers a separate online system for ordering frames or stock lenses. Both systems will save customers time and increase the efficiency of order processing.

 
New In-house AR Coating Facility at CSC Labs.  
Recently, CSC has expanded it capabilities, adding equipment that applies anti-reflective (AR) coating to lenses which cuts down on glare, improving vision and appearance. CSC has dedicated 2,500 square feet to the AR coating lab, which produces premium coatings including Crizal®, Crizal Alize®, Millenia AR®, and Endura®.  CSC has also hired a staff of  professionals for the AR coating facility who are dedicated to producing the highest quality lens coating for its customers.
 
TotalView, CSC’s New Progressive Lenses, Receives Rave Reviews  
CSC’s proprietary new lens technology—TotalView—is uniquely suited to patients with high prescriptions who require vision correction for near, far and reading zones. Flatter, thinner, and lighter than traditional lenses, TotalView lenses have wide appeal for wearers of bifocal, trifocal and multifocal lenses.TotalView lenses allow the wearer to see through the entire lens, without peripheral distortion.

TotalView lens technology applies advanced mathematics to provide maxim visual comfort and minimal distortion for near, intermediate, and distance zones. The lens gives new presbyopes a wide intermediate corridor and clear distance so that they can adapt easily. Bifocal wearers also get a large, accessible near vision zone and a wide, clear distance vision zone. All this at reasonable cost to our customers.