Rimage Announces Availability of Two New On-Demand Digital Publishing Systems.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Rimage Corporation (Nasdaq:RIMG) today announced the availability of its new Professional Series 5300N and 5100N product lines, addressing the requirements of mid-range of CD/DVD and Blu-ray Disc[TM] publishing. The new Rimage Professional 5300N and 5100N models offer customers a "step up" from ordinary desktop disc publishing systems and provide compact, user-friendly systems for front office applications.

"The new Rimage Professional Series is perfect for our customers that have multiple users sharing disc publishing responsibilities and want the convenience of an intelligent network appliance with professional print quality and hands-off operation, but don't need large capacity production equipment," said Manny Almeida, chief operating officer for Rimage "The Professional Series is designed to save our customers in the video production, medical, retail and business service industries time and money by having an in-house disc publishing solution.

The 5300N and 5100N feature premium design, performance and print quality in one easy-to-use package. Functioning as a shared network appliance, the 5300N and 5100N automate data recording and surface printing for CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs for an entire work group. The Professional Series uses sophisticated software, embedded computers, state-of-the-art robotics, network connectivity and truly permanent direct-to-disc printing to deliver professional-quality, error-free discs every time.

The Rimage Professional Series 5300N and 5100N disc publishing systems help a wide range of businesses streamline their information distribution workflows and can be deployed in a number of scenarios. From video, photo and digital media production to medical images and financial data, the 5300N and 5100N are ideal all-in-one solutions for archiving, duplicating and distributing critical digital information. Applications for the Professional Series 5300N and 5100N include business services, digital media, medical and retail.

Longtime Rimage customer Robert Martindale, manager of television production for non-profit giant AARP, tested the 5300N system and has been impressed with how easily the equipment fit into his DVD production workflow. In Bob's words, "The system simply works."

"As solid, satisfied Rimage customers, we couldn't imagine how the company might improve its top-notch networked systems," said Martindale. "But after using the 5300N for several months, we were most impressed with the system's production capacity, flexibility and "future-proof" upgrade capability of Blu-ray Discs and HD/DVD. Having separate input bins for CDs and DVDs went a long way towards speeding up the production process," added Martindale.

Medical imaging customers also praise the Rimage 5300N and 5100N systems - called the Rimage Medical Disc System by product integrators in the health care industry - for its performance and mission-critical reliability. "No other solution can match how quickly the first disc is produced, the permanence of patient information and dependability of the Rimage system," said Mike Sutherland, vice president of TDK Medical. "As the Healthcare industry starts using DVDs along with CDs because of increased imaging storage requirements, the Medical Disc System's dual bin capacity and on-board intelligence provides the most advanced disc publishing system available."