Sony DVD Rom/DVD Video manual Disc Serialisation, Serialisation Specification

4.10 Disc Serialisation

Sony DADC Austria offers the possibility to apply an individual code number to every disc of the DVD-ROM production, e.g. for identification purposes. Your prese- lected code number is printed on to the disc during the ink-jet process.

The code number is printed in arc form approximately 5 mm from the centre hole of the disc.

The number will be printed on the read-out side and can only be seen from the read-out side.

(see drawing below)

Please note that this service may result in slightly longer turn around time of your DVD-ROM order.

Example

Readout-side

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Serialisation Specification:

•Print image: 6 x 9 dot matrix, 3 mm high, 5 characters per 10 mm.

•The series or code number may consist of a maxi- mum of 28 characters using numbers, letters and symbols. Of the maximum 28 characters 9 charac- ters can be changed automatically (e.g. increasing order of numbers).

•Admissible characters of the series or code number are: letters ”a-z”, ”A-Z”, numbers ”0-9” and symbols (selected characters of the

ISO 8859-1 set of characters). In case you need to use symbols, please get in touch with our Customer Service.

•It is not possible to underline characters

•A series or code number that changes can only be printed once on the same disc.

•Due to limitation of space on the disc surface, the series or code number can be applied in one line only.

•The selected numbers of a series or code number can be increased or reduced by any constant value. Other characters such as letters or symbols remain unchanged.

•A maximum of 9 characters can be increased or reduced.

Example:

BCDE123456789 ABC-123456789gh0m 123456789abcdef

00000-123456789-0000000

The numbers 123456789 are the characters that can be changed.

•Please do not use ”bold” or ”italic” caracters.

Special requests (e.g. printing random numbers which can be supplied on a DOS compatible 3.5” floppy disk) should be addressed directly to our Customer Service department.

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