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Verbatim Increases Rimage CD and DVD Label Printer Offerings

Announcement posted by Verbatim 13 Nov 2002

Everest full-colour, photo-quality labelling technology now available as a standalone. PrismPlus! Thermal printer offer increased print rate and lower cost labelling solutions.
Verbatim Australia today announced they are now shipping two new CD/DVD label printing options from Rimage. PrismPlus!, the next generation Rimage thermal CD/DVD printer, and Everest standalone, a revolutionary thermal re-transfer print technology. The Everest was, until now, offered exclusively as an integrated part of the Rimage Producer II family of CD/DVD publishing solutions.

Everest revolutionised on-demand CD and DVD labeling when it was released a little over a year ago. With its stunning full-colour, photographic-quality labels, and its highly scratch resistant finish, this thermal re-transfer print technology has been much sought after. Until now, it was available only as an integrated part of the Rimage Producer II CD/DVD publishing solutions , or as an automated printing solution. Rimage is now offering this technology in a lower cost standalone unit.

Everest is the only print technology that enables users to print labels, on-demand, directly to the surface of CDs and DVDs with a photographic quality that used to be possible only with expensive methods like silk-screening or offset printing. The beauty of Everest lies in its ability to offer affordable, on-demand, high quality CD and DVD labeling for environments that require their materials to have a visual wow-factor. Now, with the standalone unit, this option is available to a much broader audience, opening Everest up to environments that do not necessarily need an automated solution, but who need an affordable way to produce spectacular labels, stated Callum Hingston, Hardware Product Manager at Verbatim.

PrismPlus! boasts the fastest available throughput (print rate for full coverage labels only 7 seconds), low cost labelling (a mere 6 cents per disc), USB connectivity, increased ribbon capacity, and a low-ribbon indicator that reminds you to change ribbon before it runs out.

With PrismPlus! we have taken all the elements that made the original Prism such a high demand product and heightened them, with 40% faster printing speeds and 40% more ribbon capacity than what we were shipping just a year ago all at the same price as the original, said Bernie Aldrich, President/CEO of Rimage Corporation.

Both PrismPlus! and Everest are available as standalone units, automated printing solutions, or as an integrated part of a Rimage Producer II CD-R/DVD-R publisher. All these products are currently available through Verbatim distribution channels.

About Rimage
Rimage Corporation is the worlds leading provider of integrated recordable CD/DVD publishing systems, required for producing discs with customized digital content in on demand environments. Rimage Corporation is located in Minneapolis Minnesota with operations in the USA, Europe and Asia.

About Verbatim
Since 1969 Verbatim has been at the forefront of the evolution of data storage technology. Today, more than 30 years later, Verbatim remains one of the most recognizable names in data storage and is an international market leader in the distribution of optical and magnetic media, computer hardware and computer consumables. Verbatim Australia is the market leader in the distribution of CD/DVD Duplication and Publishing equipment, providing sales and support services for leading manufacturers.

For more information see www.verbatim.com.au

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