Epson adds to Discproducer disc duplicator/printer family

Stephen Withers
Monday, 29 August 2011 17:03

Business IT - Technology

While some people would like us to think everything digital can and should be distributed online, there's still a place for the optical disc. Epson has expanded its Discproducer range to help those who need to churn out moderate runs of CDs or DVDs.

Epson has augmented its existing Discproducer PP-100 with a lower-cost model aimed at smaller productions runs, and a print-only model intended for use with existing duplicators.

The $2899 Discproducer PP-50 is a single drive CD/DVD duplicator with a built-in inkjet mechanism for printing the labels. It can take a stack of 50 discs, and burn and print 15 CDs or 8 DVDs per hour (approximately half the capacity and throughput of the $3299 PP-100).

The Discproducer PP-100AP is a dual-drive disc label printer using the same disc-handling robotics and 1440 dpi printheads to burn and print up to 95 discs per hour. It accommodates up to 100 discs at a time, and has an expected life of up to 300,000 discs given regular maintenance, company officials claimed.