Best known for its commercial inkjets and duplicators, Primera Technology now offers disc labeling for the rest of us. Its new Signature Z1 is a nifty, low-cost alternative to professional CD/DVD printers that still produces attractive and durable results. Primera enlisted Cal-Comp Electronics to manufacture the Z1. The result of their collaboration is a 200dpi …
Attractively priced at $119, Lite-On’s SOHW-1213S isn’t the swiftest, most featured, or most technically advanced recorder on the market but still offers faster-than-8X DVD+R performance and furious CD operation for the budget-conscious.
Philips Electronics announced that its latest blank DVD+R disc is the first to be approved for 1x to 16x recording speeds.
Isn’t it amazing that for all of the careful design they put into CD and DVD technology, the engineers never stopped to consider how discs might be labeled on the desktop? Thankfully, the marketplace has come to the rescue with its own solutions—some good, some not so good, but all ingenious in their own regard.
From time to time we all may be guilty of a single-minded devotion to one or another storage format – be it DVD-RAM, CD-R, hard disk, tape or whatever. Such was the message underlying the 1999 Technology and Manufacturing Conference of the International Recording Media Association (IRMA), held in Scottsdale, AZ – that we shouldn’t …
Thanks to inexpensive media, advances in high speed writing, broad based compatibility and the continuing move to just-in-time delivery, CD-R and CD-R duplication have ignited a revolution in the world of CD manufacturing and are poised to bring about the elimination of low run CD replication. However, is it fair to assume that DVD will …