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Thomas Sherman, an experienced Electrical Engineer and Product Line Manager, discusses the features and benefits of Rimage's disc production solutions, including autostar protégé, enterprise amigo, disc lab workgroup, Rimage 2000i, Rimage 360i, and Rimage autoloaders. He highlights the reliability, control, print quality, durability, and economy of the Rimage products, along with the software and inkjet technology used.
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Bio for Thomas ShermanRimage Product Line Manager • Electrical Engineer from Penn State • Member of original Digidesign Pro Tools team in 1991 • Established Cray supercomputer ISV developer program • First to market with USB audio and MIDI for Opcode • Received patent for CAT-5 based digital guitar for Gibson
Tom ShermanRimage Product Manager What’ll it take to deliverLights Out Disc Production? Or What Makes Reliable Reliable?
Autostar Protégé Enterprise Amigo DiscLab Workgroup Rimage 2000i Rimage 360i Desktop Rimage Autoloaders:Breadth and Depth Duty Cycle New! Burn & Print Throughput
DVD Recorder DVD Recorder DVD Recorder DVD Recorder What Makes ReliableReliable? System Control Overlapped Queuing Print images over USB Printer Robust Robot Arm Custom Firmware (Drive control, low level recording options) High Speed Data Interface Forgiving Disc Picker Mechanical Disc images over customized Firewire Precision Carousel All controlled by Rimage API Control Status Consistency Confidence • Jobs are queued, monitored and self-regulated • Transparent error handling • Guaranteed delivery • Get status on any on any job or on any system • Audible alerter • Visual alerter • Get SMS alerts automatically • Same SDK throughout product family • Rimage uses SDK for development • Get status on any job • Get status on any system • Get SMS alerts automatically
Rimage Disc Printing:Quality, Durability & Economy Super fast monochrome PrismPlus! Thermal Virtually indestructible • 5 seconds, 5 cents! • Can overlay silkscreen discs Print Speed Thermal re-Transfer Everest II Best-in-class print engine Rimage 480i InkJet • Begins printing even before the disc hits the tray • Does not have huge price liability of dye sub • Lowest acquisition cost • Very efficient ink usage Print Quality & Durability
Quotes about printing… • Auto Printers • Fastest throughput on the planet? Rimage printers and DVD dupe towers • Everest • Everest - only retransfer printer less than 60 seconds • Laminate an ink jet disc with an Everest printer - way cool • Dye sub? Too expensive, too slow, too soft • Makes text hard to read but makes pretty pictures • PrismPlus! • Prism Perfect Print – Prints on auto-rotated silk screened discs. Perfect Print is foolproof and is used by hundreds of financial end users every day • Prism: Print variable data on a disc for as little as 2 cents each with Prism ribbon saver turned on • Ink Jets • People won't go to service bureaus for technology they have at home • They will spend to get better quality • Cartridges don't have reliable ink feedback & ink gets on your fingers! • Photo quality inkjet media have a big issue with stickiness • Software • Printers are only as good as their software – CD Designer even has the bar code format for the Australian Mail System!