Epson has announced the Discproducer PP-50BD, a Blu-ray model aimed at users creating up to 400 discs per month for archiving or publishing. Leonard Beckmann, product manager for Epson Europe, says: “The tens of thousands of Epson Discproducers already installed have demonstrated their reliability in various sectors, including medicine, education, entertainment and marketing, as well as the duplication industry. The PP-50BD now offers the same great value for money to the archiving sector.”
The fully automated PP-50BD, which can provide Blu-ray, CD and DVD output, allows users to work on other tasks while it produces up to 50 discs and more than 2TB of data in one batch, and can burn up to three single-layer Blu-ray discs in an hour. It also provides photo-realistic printing on the disc surface using Epson’s Micro Piezo printhead and 6-colour inks. One set of ink cartridges produces more than 1,000 fully-covered discs, and when a cartridge becomes empty, the PP-50BD automatically stops to avoid mis-prints.
“While the output quality is outstanding, the cost of each finished disc or the cost per archived Gigabyte is extremely low,” added Beckmann.
When using recommended single and double-layer BD-R media, the PP-50BD’s accurate disc burning means organizations can rely on the readability of their archived discs for decades.“ Epson has drawn on its expertise in manufacturing robots to develop the patented AcuGrip robotic arm, which makes certain that only one Blu-ray disc, CD or DVD is grabbed at a time – even if they are stuck together. The system is controlled from the front, and its LED system shows the ink level status for each individual colour.
