Rimage Producer III DVD Duplicator Publisher Systems
March 30, 2009 | Duplication Systems
I had an interesting time the other week at Rimage sales training learning about the new introductions and system changes in the Rimage Producer III disc duplicator publisher line. The biggest change is the addition of Blu-ray recorders to the entire line. The Blu-ray recorders can be mixed with DVD recorders or you can have a system completely dedicated to Blu-ray. The drives support DVD as well as CD-R so you are not losing any functionality with the upgrade. Now you can have recordable Blu-ray in one hopper, DVD-R in the second hopper and CD-R in the third input bin.
Another big change (it’s been developing) is the modular design built into the Producer III series. Drive replacement takes about 10 seconds as you can now slide out the drives without using any tools. Even the control center can be removed and replaced. This concept is very useful for Rimage’s advanced swap so you can have the parts available within a very short period of time. This is all based around Rimage’s commitment to industrial on-demand disc publishing.
Another great product feature is the web interface for the Mac client. It really makes things far easier for the networked Mac user. It actually has some features that will be exciting to see in the PC version. As the developer was showing this on his Mac laptop it was amusing to see him go back and forth between virtual machines, in this case a PC client.
A big change in product line-up is the discontinuation of the Rimage Amigo. The Amigo has been around a long time, discontinued and then brought back from retirement. At one time it was the entry level unit (it has one drive) but with the whole professional line of office publishers it’s old position is somewhat obsolete. Rimage has replaced it with the 6100 series within the Producer III line. It uses the same robotics as the Rimage 7100n and 8100n and optional Prism Plus thermal printer or the Everest III and it’s high resolution brother the Everest 600
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