Rimage 3400 Review

The Rimage Corporation has just released two new  machines into the market. Today we'll be talking about the 3400. For all the technical details you can check the website.

Let's start with some basic details on the unit. It has a new version of the Everest printer, they're naming it the Everest 400. This utilizes the same thermal retransfer process that they first introduced to the industry with the original Everest several years ago. That was followed by the Everest II, III and today's version the 600. The original printers  had 300 dpi resolution while the Everest 600 is, yes you guessed it, 600 dpi. Now we have the 400 dpi model being exclusively used in the 3400 and 5400 model machines. We will say that it takes a very fine font and a very sharp eye to tell the difference between these printers. Bottom line is they all look great and yield a very durable high gloss finish. It features an all new enclosure with an impressively small footprint and a new picker. The people from Rimage tell us they have bench tested this unit with over 700,000 discs with excellent results. This comes as no surprise given our twelve year history with them and knowing how well they make their machines.

The most significant aspect of this new product is the price. $6,950.00 is well below anything else they have ever offered with this print system. The stand alone EV600 is the same price and with the 3400 you get two recorders and a really nice robotic system. The 3400 has the same software suite that powers the Producer series machines with the exception of the networking tools. This is offered for an optional $1,950.00. The Network Software Suite makes it possible to submit jobs from anywhere on the network as well as developer tools for creating automated applications.

In summary, we're really excited about the possibilities this product brings to the market place. For those that are unhappy with their ink jet systems there is now an affordable system from the world's leader in disc publishing. For others who currently own something from the Producer lineup and have seen their volume decrease, the 3400 might be a welcome sight.