Microboards Announces End-of-Life for Legacy Printers and Publishers
Sometimes in life, a new technology comes along and displaces an old one, leaving users no choice but to go forward. Think of the transition from cassette tapes to CDs, or from analog to digital television broadcasting. Like it or not, these technologies became the new standards for their industries. The disc printing industry is no different. As the saying goes, “Out with the old, in with the new.”
Recently, Microboards Technology has announced End-of-Life support for some of their disc printers and publishers. These legacy machines have been out of production for some time now, and the company will no longer offer hardware repair services or support for these older machines.
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Epson Releases Total Disc Maker v4.01 Software Update for DiscProducer
Attention DiscProducer owners! A new verion of Total Disc Maker software has been released for all Epson DiscProducer printers and publishers.
The latest version is v4.01 and was released on December 27, 2011. This release includes compatibility and drivers for new machines as well as some compatibility and bug fixes.
Changes from version 3.51 are as follows:
- Added support for new PP-50BD Blu-ray Publisher
- Software now supports writing to BD-R/BD-R DL media (PP-50BD Only). The supported formats are: UDF 2.60/UDF 1.02/ISO9660. You can create a BDMV video disc.
- Software now records internal disk drive write time and the number of tray open/close actions (PP-50BD Only)
- Total Disc Monitor has a new progress bar which shows the drive status when processing and writing.
- Total Disc Monitor used to show the time remaining for each job in progress, now shows expected processing time remaining.
- When burning data CDs, Total Disc Maker now adds support for post-gap writing.
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Epson to Release PP-50BD Blu-ray DiscProducer in Early 2012
There is a buzz in the industry that Epson is preparing to round out its Discproducer product line with a new model. Expected to debut in early 2012, the new machine will support recording on single and dual-layer Blu-ray discs. If it is true, this move would give Epson a major competitive advantage in the disc publishing market.
Currently, Epson is the only major manufacturer without a Blu-ray publisher. Competitors such as Microboards, Primera, and Rimage have had their Blu-ray disc publishers available for years.
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Pioneer Introduces BDR-PR1 Archival Blu-ray Drive
Less than a month after Pioneer announced two new Blu-ray writers for the consumer market, they are back with another new Blu ray burner – though this one is aimed at archival users.
While an average computer user has little use for archival products, the need for archival storage has been growing steadily during the past decade as a result of the increasingly digital nature of our lives. Corporate IT departments are required to maintain emails and tax records, police departments have evidence to keep, and libraries and research organizations have important data to store and catalog.
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Primera Announces Gas Card Mail-In-Rebate Program
If you’ve been feeling light in the wallet after filling up, you may want to listen in to this announcement. Primera Technology has just announced their Winter 2012 promotion, and it’s a sweet one. All you have to do is buy a qualifying Bravo product or label printer and you will be eligible to receive a prepaid gas card via mail!
Here’s how it works: simply purchase a Primera Bravo autoprinter, or CD/DVD publisher, Blu-ray publisher, or Primera label printer between January 16th and March 31st, 2012. You can make your purchase online at http://www.cdrom2go.com or by calling (877) 992-3766.
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