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With Rimage's Perfect Image CD Printer, something as apparently simple as labeling a CD-Recordable disc is no longer such a hassle of pitfalls, obstacles, long-term decisions, and-more often than not-downright wrong choices. Surprisingly, labeling discs is hardly a simple process but often one that raises many questions: Will the label damage the disc? How good will it look? How quickly can it be done? Can it be done in-house? How permanent are the results? How much will it cost? Not everyone has the same reasons for labeling discs or criteria for judging results. Some just want to identify disc contents, while others need serial numbers for tracking or security purposes, and still others want to make their discs look good but lack the time and dollars for conventional silkscreening for small runs.
There are, of course, many different ways to label a disc, which range from using a felt-tip pen and stick-on label to fancier inkjet, dry offset, and silkscreen printing systems. Rimage Corporation of Minneapolis, Minnesota has pioneered a solution that adapts thermal transfer technology for CD-R labeling. A long-established method for other printing applications, Rimage has made it commercially available to CD-R users with its Perfect Image CD Printer.
PERFECT IMAGE IN ITS OWN IMAGE: SIZE: SHAPE, AND SPECS
The $3995 Perfect Image CD Printer offers excellent quality monochrome 300x300dpi results on a wide range of disc surfaces and provides the speed and flexibility that service bureaus and others engaged in serious CD-Recordable production should welcome. The unit comes complete with everything needed to get up and running quickly, including a power cord, parallel cable, one black ribbon with supply and take-up rollers, label software and printer drivers for Windows 3.x, 95, and NT, manuals, a coupon for a free ribbon, and five CD "slugs"-unusable discs-for test printing.
The only currently available versions of the printer driver and label software are for PC-compatible systems. Operating requirements are at least a 486 processor, 8MB RAM, MS-DOS 6.x, and Windows 3.1 or later.
SOME ADVANTAGES: WIDE-RANGING APPLICABILITY AND ENDURING RESULTS
An important advantage the Rimage Perfect Image CD Printer has over inkjet units is that it does not require specially coated CD-R discs to accept the ink from the printing process. Inkjet printers, on the...