Disc Serialisation

5. DISC SERIALISATION

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

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

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.

The most important data of an ink-jet printer are indicated for disc numbering:

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

The series or code number may consist of a maximum of 28 characters using numbers, letters and symbols. Of the maximum 28 characters 9 characters 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 want to use symbols please get in touch with our Customer Service.

It is not possible to underline characters (e.g. 123456).

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.

It is not possible to write in ”bold” or ”italics”.

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.

Example

Readout-side

Labelfilm

specifications F

DE12 BC

34

5

678 9

20

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Sony DADC manual Disc Serialisation