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Rimage and TDK Announce Industry's First Thermal Printable Blu-ray Disc; Industry Leaders Combine Thermal Retransfer, Direct-to-Disc Print Technology with Next Generation Blu-ray Media for Powerful Data Storage Solution.


MINNEAPOLIS -- Rimage Corporation (Nasdaq:RIMG), the world leader in disc publishing, and TDK TDK Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Council)
TDK The Dark Knights (gaming clan)
TDK Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd.
, a world leader in digital recording solutions, today announced the release of the industry's first thermal printable Blu-ray disc. The discs are on display at TDK booth #C10741 and Rimage booth #SL1843 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, which is taking place at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. , April 24-27, 2006.

By combining Rimage's innovative direct-to-disc print technology with thermal printable Blu-ray discs from TDK, the two companies have created a powerful information storage medium that can hold up to 25 GB of critical data.

Rimage's Everest(TM) thermal retransfer technology enables users to create permanent, colorful, high-resolution prints bonded directly to the surface of a CD or 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.
. The resulting print is professional looking and virtually indestructible in·de·struc·ti·ble  
adj.
Impossible to destroy: indestructible furniture; indestructible faith.



[Late Latin ind
 -- impervious to water, scratches and dirt.

TDK Blu-ray Discs provide breakthrough recording technology from the only media company that's a founding member of the Blu-ray Disc Association The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is the industry consortium that develops and licenses Blu-ray Disc technology and responsible for establishing format standards and promoting and further developing business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc. . 25GB single-layer recordable and rewritable discs enable massive data backups and the highest resolution HD recording. The new thermal printable Blu-ray discs enable users to print custom text and graphics directly on the label-side surface of the disc using the Rimage Everest printer.

"This combination of the industry's top ranked media and the world's most powerful disc publishing systems will provide Blu-ray users with a robust, long-term medium for their data storage needs," said Manny Manny may refer to:

In nobility:
  • Baron Manny, a title in the Peerage of England
  • Walter de Manny, 1st Baron Manny (died 1372), soldier of fortune and founder of the Charterhouse
People with the given name Manny:
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 Almeida, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 for Rimage.

As the world leader in disc publishing, Rimage is the only company providing high-performance systems that meet the quality, quantity and customization requirements of critical publishing applications. Rimage's Producer systems combine the best in robotics, software and print technologies for networked, self-sustaining solutions. Leading organizations worldwide depend on Rimage for professional, custom CD/DVD production and 24/7 reliability.

About Rimage

Rimage Corporation (www.rimage.com) is the world's leading provider of recordable CD and DVD publishing systems, which are used by businesses to produce discs with customized digital content on an on-demand basis. Rimage's publishing systems, which span the range from high to low CD/DVD production volumes, integrate robotics, software and surface label printers into a complete publishing solution. Rimage is focusing its CD/DVD publishing solutions on a set of vertical markets with special needs for customized, on-demand digital information: digital photography, medical imaging, financial institutions, business offices, and government.

About TDK

TDK Corporation (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:TDK) is a leading global electronics company based in Japan. It was established in 1935 to commercialize "ferrite fer·rite  
n.
1. Any of a group of nonmetallic, ceramiclike, usually ferromagnetic compounds of ferric oxide with other oxides, especially such a compound characterized by extremely high electrical resistivity and used in computer memory
," a key material in electronics and magnetics. The company today is a leader in the development of next-generation technologies such as Blu-ray Disc recording media, an optical disc ideally suited for high-definition video recording. TDK offers a full line of recordable DVD and CD media, digital camcorder tapes, professional data storage solutions and much more.
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