Microboards, Name that Replicates Best of the industry in Chosen field

Microboards Print Factory introduction marks the beginning of a concerted industry effort to provide HP-based alternatives to Primera-based printing solutions. Disc Factory ($2995) has a lot to offer prospective CD and DVD disc labelers, including excellent high-resolution printing quality, rapid-fire output, reasonable cost per label, the ability to control multiple units from one PC, and the convenience of using off-the-shelf inkjet cartridges. But Microboards still needs to iron out some small wrinkles, including addressing glitches in the Disc Factory's driver software and disc output system.

Microboard is one of the well accepted names in the world, not only in the printing arena, but in the entire industry of innovative technology solutions products. Microboard has a wide range of products, and in each product segment, the brand has managed to achieve brand leadership and maintain an unsurpassed reputation of quality. Now, Microboard offers world class Products, which shows that the company has indeed come a long way since its inception. Consumers looking for any of the Microboard products get relieved and assured once they find a Microboard product that fits their needs. And when it comes to Products, Microboard's excellence in present day technology savvy world is undeniable.

Rather than confronting the juggernaut head-on, Microboards has instead opted to pick its first target carefully and come to market with a more specialized autoprinting product. Aimed at tower CD and DVD duplicator owners, as well as service bureaus decorating discs as an alternative to silkscreening, the Print Factory is a one-trick pony wrapping 50-disc autoloading capabilities around a thoroughly modern color inkjet printer in a smooth desktop unit.

In contrast to Primera's solutions, which utilize Lexmark technology, the $2,995 Print Factory employs Hewlett-Packard's Deskjet 6122 inkjet printing engine, which boasts 4800x1200dpi optimized resolution and true four-color capability combined with four- picoliter droplet size. This is a step up from Primera's SignaturePro and Bravo.

Core Information about Microboards Print Factory:

Since the Print Factory is a straightforward autoloading printer without duplication capabilities, system requirements are predictably light, although using a faster computer will reduce imaging times with complex labels. Consequently, at least a 233mHz Pentium PC with 128MB RAM is called for, along with MS Windows 2000 or XP and a parallel or USB 1.1 port. For this evaluation, the Print Factory was put to the test using a speedier (although run-of-the-mill these days) 1.7gHz Pentium 4 PC with 256MB RAM running MS Windows XP Professional with a USB connection. As with most contemporary inkjet printers, installation proved to be a snap. The unit was up and running within a matter of minutes of unpacking.

In addition to the autoprinter, each Print Factory package includes a full complement of niceties, including one tri-color and one black ink cartridge, power cord, USB cable, a handful of alignment CDs, a spindle of 50 blank Taiyo Yuden inkjet-printable CD-R discs, printer drivers for Windows 2000/XP and Microvision Development's SureThing CD Labeler LE label creation software. Serious production users, however, should take note that the unit offers only a one-year non-extendable warranty.

The Print Factory uses a customized HP driver to control the printing process. This includes selectable printing modes and print quality levels, overall ink volume, saturation, brightness, and color tone, as well as grayscale and black-only operation. Also included are maintenance features for checking ink levels, changing ink cartridges, and outputting test and alignment images. More specific to disc labeling is the ability to specify inner and outer printing diameters, hub labeling, and drying time

Just believe in the qualities of this amazing product and output quality is definitely is one of the best that you can desire.


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