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Free shipping on MicroBoards Publishers & Printers

Over the next few weeks you can benefit from free shipping on the best selling range of MicroBoards automated disc printers and publishers. The FREESHIP offer covers, the MicroBoards MX1, MicroBoards MX2, PrintFactory Pro, PrintFactory 3, HCL High Capacity Autoloaders, including BluRay and LightScribe versions, and the entry level GX-2 automated disc publisher.

MicroBoards Technology offer industry leading technology for the automated production of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

StorDigital Flash Media Duplicators for USB, SD and CF Media

StorDigital Systems have expended their range of card media copiers. The new devices are fully standalone and support the duplication of SD card media and USB pen drives. The units come in 7 and 11 target drive models, with larger drives due out soon.

Perfect for producing pen drives that might be used as promotional tools or for music distribution. The StorDigital card media copiers make perfect copies with a single button press.

Here are the new models:

StorDigital SDM7USB 7 Target USB copier

StorDigital SDM11USB 11 Target USB copier

StorDigital SDM7SD 7 Target SD copier

StorDigital SDM11SD 11 Target SD copier
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

StorDigital LinkTower - the expandable duplicator

Control 100s of duplication towers from one single source

A fast scalable, DVD/CD Duplication solution providing music studios, video production houses, and archival departments speed and flexibility.

StorDigital Systems, the nation's leading manufacturer of CD and DVD duplicators and printers, is proud to introduce the new LinkTower X10D range of expandable duplicators. Based on StorDigital's best selling tower duplication technology the LinkTower offers the opportunity to connect up to 100 tower duplicators together, all operated from a single source.

The StorDigital LinkTower makes investing in a DVD or CD duplication solution more cost effective than ever. By offering the opportunity to expand the duplicator customer can be sure they are investing in the a solution that can aid and sustain their growing business. Since the duplicator modules can be used individually or connected to operate from one source, the requirement for additional manpower is significantly reduced. This ensures reduced initial capital expenditure and effective control over the cost of expansion.

Experienced duplication professionals know that the path to the greatest profit is scalability and flexibility. Only by being able to rapidly meet the fluctuating demands of a seasonal market can you have the confidence to quote on large or fast turn around production jobs. StorDigital LinkTower offers you the potential to upscale your production facility quickly and easily via their seamless X10D expandable duplicator technology.

StorDigital Systems Engineer, David Caunce had this to say, " The LinkTower is a natural progression for our tower duplicator range. A single tower duplicator might meet your production requirements today, but what about a year from now. The StorDigital LinkTower is an affordable solution that addresses many of our customer concerns re expandability. It makes it easy to step up production and throughput without increasing your labour bill "

LinkTower Duplicators can work in both standalone and link mode, meaning that that 10 devices can be quickly configured to produce 10 independent jobs of 100 or one large run of 1400. Because the LinkTower Daisy Chain Duplicator uses the same advanced duplication technology as found in the StorDigital Premium range of duplicators you can expect to get perfect DVD and CD copies on time every time. With StorDigital's LinkTower you have unlimited production power at your finger tips.

StorDigital X10D LinkTower duplicators are available to buy now from CD-writer.com Ltd and StorDigital Systems on 0208 293 0777. Call now to register for your reseller account and start selling the UK's favourite range of CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Duplicators.

Retail customers can get more information and buy online at www.cd-writer.com/llinktower.html

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For further information contact: Nic Ranshaw

StorDigital Systems, 15 Greenwich Center Business Park,

53 Norman Road, London, SE10 9QF

Telephone: +44 (0)208 293 0777

Fax: +44 (0)208 293 0666

e-mail: nicr@stordigital.com

www: www.stordigital.com

About StorDigital Sytems: StorDigital Systems was founded by CD-writer.com ltd in 2002. They are now a leading UK manufacturer and supplier of specialist DVD, CD and Blu-Ray duplication solutions. The range includes tower copiers, robotic duplicators and automated printers for DVD,CD, Blu-Ray and flash media. You can contact StorDigital Systems online at www.stordigital.com or by calling +44 208 293 0777.

Ref: CDW0 01/09/08
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

David Bridle Blows CD-writer.com Trumpet

It seems we no longer need to blow our own trumpets, since our customers are happy to purse up to their own horn instruments.

We recently got the following feedback from independant video producer, web / print designer and all round creative David Bridle. You can see their company profile here.

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Thursday 5th March became a very bad day. It started off well enough, blue sky, sun and birds chirping, the usual niceties a day has before it decides to dump all over you. I got up, got ready for the day ahead knowing that I was going to London to do some filming, for an MPIUK event at Canada House, Trafalgar Sq. As I got to work everyone was in a jolly mood and so we joked and planned what we were going to do over the next few days to maximise our time while Paul was in the country. So we decided that we needed to do some video editing for his presentations.

I went to the studio and fired up the iMac with the 1TB Lacie HD attached. This is where things start going down hill, the HD would not mount, the power brick was hissing like gas coming out of a pipe and to top it all off the disk would not spin. This has all of my video projects for the last three years on it. It has the latest products that we have developed, our new Be Inspired series, which is rolling out in the next week or two. Everything! So now in my mind I have our latest products burnt off onto DVDs, so all I need to do is duplicate them before Sunday when Paul leaves for Australia and takes them with him.

So I get straight onto the internet to find a DVD duplicating system. I search through all sorts of sites and find CD-WRITER.COM. I look at there site, I find a 3 DVD copier, I talk with Paul about it and place my order. I proceeded to call them up and find out if they could get the burner to me for Friday or Saturday at the latest. At this point I didn’t elaborate on the problem I was facing and simply asked the question. However, I called back to ask if they could get it to me for Saturday and I expanded on why it was so urgent. The lovely lady at the other end was extremely helpful, she took onboard my problem and got on to helping me out. Let me point out that the reason they couldn’t do the Friday delivery was because they needed to assemble the burner. They didn’t have any pre-assembled. At this point the lady informed me that they could get the burner to me for Saturday but it will cost £40 extra for delivery on the weekend. Ok, so I agreed, however she said I will see if I can get this to you for Friday morning.

Now I am traveling down to London to do the filming. I receive an email informing me that the burner is now despatched and is shipping to me. Excellent, thinking that it will get to me Saturday. So the rest of the day goes by and I am happy that at least one on of my problems will be solved. The LaCie HD on the other hand is another issue.

I awoke this morning to find another email telling me that the burner is now out for delivery and will be delivered at the latest of 3pm. I am now extremely pleased, the burner has moved forward in time and will have ample time to get the DVDs burnt fantastic. I get to work just after 9am, we are all talking away in the kitchen when an Interlink delivery van pulls up. Oh yes the DVD burner has arrived. I am ecstatic, I have even more time and this is good.

Now I look at this whole episode and wonder why a company has gone out of its way to get that burner to me. They didn’t have to, they could have settled for the extra cash for delivery on the Saturday. No they didn’t do that, they went for the harder option of getting this burner assembled quicker, and sending out on that days shipment. Why? becasue they want the business, they want the repeat business, they care about their customers so much that they GOT IT DONE!

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See more of David Bridles Blog insightfull here.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

MicroBoards PrintFactory Pro Customer Case Study

Capture - Edit - Stream - Relive your Event
"My client requires quality prints and speed… to deliver their DVD and CD
media. " Philippe Meurrens- Brussels - Belgium
Because the image is an effective tool to strengthen exchanges with
customers, suppliers, partners, employees or associates , MediaEvent
manufactures your movies on any media like CD-ROM, DVD and BluRay, internet, podcasts, streaming and integration on digital information displays. Mediaevent offers the design of all these means of communications and integrate it in allexisting diffusion-media on the market.
An event is unique.? Thanks to MediaEvent the memory of the event remains unique ... forever.
The event can also be recorded on an interactive DVD and delivered in a
beautiful box customized to the event ..
Mediaevent duplicates itselfs his DVD's and CD's, with a tower made of
duplicators with components supplied by CD-writer.com 7 Pioneers recorders,1 Acard control unit, 1 Box and power supply . You can, if you want purchase assembled duplication towers at CD-writer.com
The tower can duplicate 7 DVD every 6 min. The media (CD or DVD) are printed in Full Color up to 4800 dpi with a printing robot MicroBoards PF Pro printer.

This robot allows me, with easy, to print up to 100 DVD or CD in a time. The
advantage of PF Pro Printer MicroBoards is not only reliability but also it is a
very economical printer. Having for each color a separate cartridge (Cyan 28ml -Magenta 28 ml Yellow 28 ml - Black 56 ml) I print between 1000 and 1500 DVDs with the cartridges. The printing cost varies between 6 eurocents and 15 eurocents a DVD. (Depending on the colors used, the percentage of printsurface and print quality) loading the DVD goes smoothly. The "Gillotin" takes each DVD one by one, and load it in the high quality HP-printer. 30 to 60 seconds later the media is put out at the front of the printer. ( the 100 medias are harvested there )
"Which is great with this printer is that I put it all started and ... 1 hour and half later my 100 DVD's are ready to be delivered to my clients. That's profitability!"
I am using Photoshop® to make my lay-outs. The print driver works fine ( on a Mac 10.5.6 system ) and is very easy to use. It is a pity that the interface for Mac doesn't includes color settings, which is included in operating systems for PC's. I have the choice between Graphic quality and photo quality. In these choices you can choose Best and High DPI. I use high quality DVD like Tayo Yuden. And then using "Glossy-DVDs" the impressions are "more pro". Amazing!
Why a Microboards PF Pro Printer ?
For several years I printed my DVDs and CDs with a printer Canon Pixma 4500. This printer prints at 4800 DPI and works with 4 different color cartridges. I was in search of a robot-printer that could give me the same quality of printing.
The team of professionals from CD-writer.com helped me to choose this DVD-CD printer. They advised me according to my criteria of requirements, print speed, quality, reliability and economics, the robot Printing MicroBoards PF Pro.
If you are looking for a DVD/CD printer with high-quality, economic prints, there is one model, the MicroBoards PF Pro-printer and I can advise you to purchased them at CD-writer.com ( professional- competent - price - pro advice). The purchase goes very fast. Make your order at CD-writer.com, pay your invoice and 3 to 4 days later you can enjoy your Microboards PF Pro printer.
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Duplicating for schools, in schools, at school - ideas on education

DVD and CD production can be an important addition to the IT resources of schools, colleges and universities. At CD-writer.com many of our customers come from the educational sector. Whilst duplication technology is commonly used for administration purposes, such as; the distribtuion of end of year reports and leanring aids it is the view of the CD-writer.com team disc production could be built in to the curriculum.

For example the media department would combine a project with the art and design and science departments that see students conceptualise, and create music or video projects. The recorded product might then be copied to CD or DVD and packaged with professional style labels and paper parts. The whole process is very educational and could open the doors to the concept of art, design, and manufacturing to many more students. Whats more the products produced could be sold via the school website or tuck shop.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

CD-writer.com – we’re on your wave-length for Blu-Ray and DVD production!

Blu-Ray disc publishing is a service area that is showing signs of significant growth at CD-writer.com. With a growing installed base of Hi-Definition Blu-Ray players in the market-place the need to offer customers an HD solution is proving ever more important. The new range of Blu-Ray duplicators and printers from StorDigital offers video publishers a low cost opportunity to start publishing professionally finished Blu-Ray Discs, as well as standard DVDs and CDs.

StorDigital Blu-Ray duplicators have capacities ranging from single target tower copiers that require manual operation, through to 1000 disc capacity autoloaders that can work overnight. StorDigital also offers a range of automated disc printers that can support hi-resolution, glossy, waterproof printing directly onto the disc surface. The best selling StorDigital DP100 automated disc printer is based on an HP print engine and has 100 disc capacity.

New products introduced to the StorDigital range include LightScribe duplicators. By using patented HP LightScribe technology, StorDigital LightScribe duplicators have the ability to label the top surface of LightScribe discs with pictures and text. The range includes both tower copiers and automated versions with up to 1000 disc capacity. Using just the laser to create ‘labels’ means that StorDigital LightScribe duplicators offer a clean and effective alternative to inkjet and thermal based printing solutions.

Nic Ranshaw, Managing Director of CD-writer.com and StorDigital Systems said “We expect 2009 to be a great year for DVD and Blu-Ray. Disc based media continues to be the preferred distribution method for rich media content. There has been lots of talk about decline in this market area but that’s really just a restructuring of the channel. It’s people like home-users and semi pro video producers who can now really capitalise on the opportunities afforded by producing disc based products in-house. It’s a great time for the independent producers and content owners, as customers are choosing to buy into the flexibility afforded by short run and disc-on-demand publishing solutions.”

He went on, “If you are not ready to invest in your own equipment then why not try our rapid duplication service, offering 24 hour turnaround on short run production jobs. It’s the perfect solution for customers with tight deadlines. With over 10 years experience in the supply of in-house solutions for the production of disc based media you can trust CD-writer.com Ltd to have the best solution for you.”

CD-writer.com has the widest choice of digital media technology products in the UK. With a range of systems from Microboards, Rimage, Primera and StorDigital held in their Greenwich facility it makes sense to call today on 020 8293 0777 to arrange a no obligation demonstration.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

New Year, New LightScribe Duplicators from MicroBoards

Microboards have entered 2009 with a plethora of new duplication systems, utilising the patented HP LightScribe disc labelling technology. Judging by their previous success in the tower and automated disc publishing markets, the new Microboards LightScribe duplicators and High Capacity Automated LightScribe Disc Copiers should prove popular.

To get more information on the new LightScribe disc copiers from Microboards or any other products in the Microboards disc publisher range, call the CD-writer.com team on +44 (0) 208 293 0777.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009