NEWS - (Taiyo Yuden)
-Taiyo Yuden Media is changing it's name to - JVC Advanced Media U.S.A. - effective immediately (as of 4/1/09).
At this time, no schedule is set for the transition to JVC named products.
All new sku's will be under the acquired JVC brand name, current sku's will transition in about 3-6 months.
This should bring no change to our normal day to day business selling Taiyo Yuden, just the name change to JVC. All media will continue to be manufactured in Japan to the same high quality standards by Taiyo Yuden (now JVC Advanced Media U.S.A ).
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I was reading over some old posts on another blog and a ran across an article in May, 2oo8 about a union between Taiyo Yuden and JVC. JVC sold Taiyo Yuden a share in it's media business which they had put under the subsidiary Victor Company of Japan and it is now re-structured as Victor Advanced Media. There is documentation on the agreement between JVC and Taiyo Yuden to sell part of thel JVC media concern (Victor Company of Japan) in order to strengthen core businesses. So now since July 2008 the new company, Victor Advanced Media has been operating in Japan reselling Taiyo Yuden CDs and DVDs. This is a link to the original documentation from JVC Press Release May 26th,2008
On October 1st Taiyo Yuden announced: ...Following stock acquisition, Victor Advanced Media will be included in Taiyo Yuden’s scope of consolidation as a subsidiary company from the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. The effect of the acquisition on the company’s consolidated performance for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009 is expected to be insignificant.
Link to TY press release
So Taiyo Yuden now owns JVC media business which would include intellectual rights to the disc technology. Hmm I wonder what Taiyo Yuden wants with that? I guess we will see after March 31st, 2009
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Taiyo Yuden has recently released a new silver inkjet printable watershield recordable CD. It features a hub printable glossy silver surface and all the benefits of Taiyo Yuden's Water Shield CD. Designed for inkjet disc printers it dries very fast avoiding smudges. It is 52x compatible and comes packaged in 50 disc spindles.
Taiyo Yuden Watershield offers water resistance, glossy finish and an amazing silver print surface. Like regular silver inkjet printable CDs the surface has a iridescent depth unlike any other CD printable surface. Silver gives a reflective three dimensional image highlighting the color of the label. Silver surfaced printable discs looks better then a silk screened disc. Color mixing is incredible with Taiyo Yuden Watershield recordable CD discs.
Inkjet printable Taiyo Yuden Watershield provides an excellent method of disc printing using convenient ink-jet printing technology. Taiyo Yuden Watershield is ideal for printing with the leading disc printer manufacturers including Epson, Microboards, R-Quest, Primera, Rimage, MF Digital and Recordex.
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One of the greatest challenges with CD and DVD manufacturers has been the inkjet printable surface of a recordable disc. Many improvements have been made over time but the greatest achievement is the water-resistant surface of Taiyo Yuden. Taiyo Yuden has created a glossy and water resistant printable surface called "Watershield". Imation offers a matte white ink-jet printable surface under the brand name: "AquaGuard". Depending on your requirements each has it's place.
Imation AquaGuard matte surface gives a more muted color spectrum, helping to hide any imperfections in the label image. AquaGuard's surface is very similar to a regular inkjet printable surface in some ways. The product line spans CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R and now recordable Blu-ray or BD-R. It features a hub printable inkjet printable disc surface.
Taiyo Yuden's Watershield surface is glossy and dries very quickly. Image resolution is good and color vibrancy is high. It resembles silk-screened (although silk-screen is limited in color mixing) resolution. It's very much the surface everyone compares their attempts at copying Watershield media. Taiyo Yuden manufacturers Watershield in both CD-R and DVD-R and is distributed by Microboards Technologyin the United States. Watershield CD-R and Watershield DVD-R are hub-printable. Taiyo Yuden CDs are 52x and the DVD-R is 16X.
It's important with any print job to make sure one is putting down the right amount of ink and not too much. Many times this contributes to drying issues and in the long run financial issues ;)
It's best to use just the right amount of ink for best results. Too little or two much ink can make even the best printable disc look amateurish.
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