NEW YORK--Shamir Insight is expanding its Autograph line of progressive lenses with new enhancements that create a more personalized viewing experience for wearers. Last month at International Vision Expo East, Shamir executives unveiled the Autograph line extensions, which consist of five new lifestyle designs plus two new technologies.

“Groundbreaking is the one word that we can use to describe the exciting new updates to Autograph,” said Raanan Naftalovich, CEO. “The research and development team in Israel has been working hard to perfect the Autograph line to ensure wearers receive the most precise, personalized lens, made to fit their frames and how they wear their glasses.”

Naftalovich said the Shamir Autograph lens itself has been updated with a variable lens design for minimum fitting heights starting from 1mm and up. The new line extensions are Autograph Attitude, which provides patients with a premium wrap progressive with optimal zone widths and clear, distortion-free viewing; Autograph Office, a personalized occupational lens; Autograph Single Vision, which allows single-vision patients to experience personalization in a fully aspheric back-surfaced lens; Autograph Single Vision Attitude, which provides a customized lens for wrap frames, without the distortion found in many progressive wrap lenses.

Shamir also introduced As-Worn Technology, which fine-tunes a patient’s Rx by calculating vertex distance--the distance between the lens and the eye; pantoscopic tilt--the angle at which the frame sits on the patients face; and panoramic angle--the angle of the frame itself. Submitting these three measurements along with the patient’s Rx allows Shamir’s Prescriptor software to adjust the prescribed Rx to better suit the patient as he or she wears the frame.

Shamir’s second new technology, FreeFrame Technology, takes into account the patient’s frame choice, adjusting the design of the lens by dynamically increasing or decreasing the corridor length to match the frame and fitting height. Also, by moving the reading zone to the exact location in relation to the patient’s selected frame, FreeFrame Technology ensures each patient receives wide reading areas with full add for any frame shape or structure.

Shamir also introduced Shamir DLT (Direct Lens Technology), a new line of semi-finished, aspheric/atoric back-surfaced progressives. According to Naftalovich, Shamir will offer the DLT line as an alternative to bridge the gap between its standard semi-finished and Autograph lines. The DLT line consists of Shamir CreationDLT, Shamir PiccoloDLT, Shamir AttitudeDLT and Shamir OfficeDLT.