[Hamish Macmillan]

Dave,

As a Rimage employee my post is obviously going to be biased, but since you mention that you’ve considered buying a Rimage system I’m going to present the case for having your business in-house, since that’s essentially what our products enable current outsourcers to do. I’ll try to keep this as unsalesy as possible.
The benefits are:
1. Complete process control – order timing, production quantities etc
2. Inventory management – no wastage through overruns, change control (both content and labeling), 1 – 100’s produced as required, all unique if necessary.
3. Product quality control – media and print: with ousourcing, the results could be A,B or C quality. Insourced, you choose both.
4. Workflow management – current disc publishers can be complete network appliances which operate like network printers, receiving and queueing jobs from multiple content creation sources. These jobs can be either fully authored images or data files with the labels tied in through XML.

Hope this helps.