Secondary storage specialist and member of the Siltek IT Supply Chain, Intelligent Systems (IS), has announced local availability of a new single-drive CD-Recordable (CD-R) publishing system from Rimage.
Chris Roux, MD of the local Rimage distributor, expects the new Producer Amigo 2000 to open up new markets for automated CD-R publishing systems. "It will appeal to businesses that require such functionality but lack the volume to justify any of Rimage's larger two- or four-CD recorder systems," he says.
An extension of Rimage's Perfect Image Producer 2000 family of products, the new model is a compact, fully automated CD recording and labelling system designed specifically for low-volume on-demand publishing and duplicating applications.
"There is a huge market for short-run production of CDs - especially from the likes of small- to medium-sized audio recording and production studios. These operations typically require automated CD recording and labelling systems capable of producing batches of 500 to 1 000 discs in a cost-effective manner," says Roux. Like Rimage's two- and four-recorder systems, Protege and Autostar, the Amigo features an 8X speed recorder, able to burn a full CD in less than 10 minutes. It also includes Rimage's Prism CD Printer - a full-colour thermal transfer printer for duplicating disc labels.
The Amigo is controlled by Rimage's Perfect Producer 2000 software that manages and automates the system's recording and printing, allowing it to operate completely unattended. This software enables the system to image, download, and record simultaneously - a critical feature when producing multiple jobs calling for one-of-a-kind CDs.
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Rimage
Minnesota-based Rimage Corporation has been in business since 1978 and has operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. The company's major products include digital publishing and duplication systems for CD-R media serving many diverse markets, including government, finance, health care, software manufacturing and entertainment.
Rimage's automated CD publishing systems are used in a variety of ways to duplicate and distribute digital information on CDs. Kodak's PictureCD system uses Rimage CD-R technology to provide customers with an easy way to bring conventionally captured images into the digital world. Many game and software suppliers also employ Rimage systems for on-demand, customised CD production, and Rimage systems are used in a number of high-volume or just-in-time data distribution applications.
Intelligent Systems
A specialist distribution company in the SILTEK IT Supply Chain Group, Intelligent Systems provides storage solutions that underpin many of the diverse business applications so prevalent in the business world today, including: Storage Area Networks, Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Document Imaging, e-Commerce and Hierarchical Storage Management. The company holds distribution or sub-distribution rights to a broad range of storage technologies and products, including hard disk-based subsystems, optical technology, tape devices, high-performance connectivity and software management products. Intelligent Systems applies its considerable expertise to building solutions to satisfy individual storage requirements of a variety of specific business applications. The company can be contacted on its Web site at www.intsys.co.za.