Rimage Releases Liberty--New HP-Enabled Print Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003 Enables Users to Print Full-Color Labels on the Surface of CDs and DVDs - Available as a Standalone Unit or an Integrated Part of an Automated CD/DVD Publishing Solution Rimage Corporation Rimage Corporation (NASDAQ: RIMG), is a producer of CD-R and DVD-R production systems. Rimage has introduced several CD (compact disc) printing technologies including Prism Plus and Everest - two full color thermal printers. (Nasdaq:RIMG) today announced it is now shipping a new inkjet label printer for CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. media. Liberty's HP-enabled print technology is being offered as a standalone unit, and will also be the featured printer on all new Rimage Desktop Family automated CD/DVD publishing solutions. Liberty(TM) Thermal Inkjet Printing for CDs and DVDs Liberty gives users the ability to print full-coverage, full-color labels directly to the surface of CD and DVD media, with superior results. Product highlights include: -- 4800 dpi print resolution -- Full-Color Spectrum of 16.7 Million Colors -- Pixel Density of 5.76 Million Pixels Per Square Inch -- HP ColorRET Color Management System Software that translates the colors of an original image into the truest representation obtainable on the output device. Color management works from a profile of the output device, typically a digital printer or offset press, and works backward to the source of the material such as a -- Dual Ink Cartridges (1-Black and 1-CMY) -- Industry's Smallest Ink Droplet droplet very small drop of fluid. droplet nuclei the finite particles of matter which are transmitted from animal to animal. Size For Impeccable Ink Control Smallest Available Ink Droplet Size--Only 4 Pico-Liters The ink droplet size is important for CD/DVD printing, because media surface coatings Surface coating A substance applied to other materials to change the surface properties, such as color, gloss, resistance to wear or chemical attack, or permeability, without changing the bulk properties. are able to manage only so much ink. Printers with larger droplet sizes (some up to 11 pico-liters) run into great difficulty with smudging smudging (smuˑ·jing), n in Native American medicine, the ritual of purifying the location, patient, healer, helpers and ritual objects by using the smoke obtained by burning sacred , ink-pooling, lengthy dry times, color-shifting and migration, and saturation among others. Liberty's ink droplet size measures a mere 4 pico-liters allowing it to master control over how the ink will settle into the media. Liberty's miniscule min·is·cule adj. Variant of minuscule. Adj. 1. miniscule - very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell" minuscule droplet size essentially eliminates those problems, and gives users greater freedom to produce any label they want, knowing that the technology is keeping up with them. Two Industry Leaders Are Better Than One Liberty is the result of combining the industry leading print technologies of HP with the unparalleled expertise in CD/DVD printing and recording of Rimage. "When we began developing a new inkjet printer A printer that propels droplets of ink directly onto the medium. Today, almost all inkjet printers produce color. Low-end inkjets use three ink colors (cyan, magenta and yellow), but produce a composite black that is often muddy. for our automated CD and DVD publishing solutions, we looked at a number of technologies. HP immediately rose to the top. Their innovation and world-class inkjet print technology makes them the industry leader." Stated Jim Lewis Jim Lewis may be a short form of James Lewis, or may refer to:
For More Information For more detailed information on the Liberty print technology or the new Desktop Family CD/DVD publishers, visit our website at www.rimage.com or contact Rachel Zakariasen at rachelz@rimage.com. About Rimage Rimage Corporation is the world's leading provider of integrated recordable CD/DVD publishing systems, required for producing discs with customized digital content in on-demand environments. Rimage's publishing systems, which span the range from high to low CD/DVD production volumes, incorporate robotics, software and advanced color and black/white printing technologies for disc labeling. Rimage's integrated systems are backed by global service, support and training, and provide customers with a complete CD/DVD publishing solution. Rimage is focusing on a set of vertical markets with special needs for customized, on-demand digital information: digital photography, banking and finance, government, business offices, medical imaging and service bureaus. Rimage Corporation is located in Minneapolis, MN, with operations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and Asia. For more information visit our website at www.rimage.com. |
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