Wow... http://www.mitsuicdr.com/mci_world/colorado2.htm
You learn something new everyday. Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mininger.org http://db.etree.org/mininger At Tuesday 20:51 3/5/02, PJP wrote: >. . . if you purchased them in North America. That's the word from a >Mitsui rep I corresponded with recently. I'm no shill for Mitsui, but I >use them all the time, as do many others in this community. Here is >what I was told. Keep in mind, of course, that HE is presumably not >objective about his company's products. Nonetheless, there is some >useful information here -- take it for what it is worth. Also -- he >sent me a PowerPoint presentation about Mitsui products that I found >informative. If you want it, drop me a note. > >---Begin note from Mitsui--- > >The country of origin does not have any direct influence on the disc >quality. Historically, the Japanese have consistently made higher >quality discs than the Taiwanese or Chinese. A Japanese company (Taiyo >Yuden), was the biggest contributor in the invention of CD-R. Mitsui >also holds patents and was the second manufacturer to make CD-Rs. The >Taiwanese learned much of what they know about CD-Rs from Japanese >companies, but have not been able to keep the quality as high---in fact >they ship everything they make & define the rejects as "lower grade" >media. > >Mitsui only offers a single, high grade of media and we still reject >~10% of everything we make. We're not happy about the high reject rate, >but we have found that it's the only way to maintain the level of >quality that people expect from our media. We set the max defect size >at 160 microns, while most of our competitors reject at 400 microns! We >also have a patent on the Phthalocyanine dye that performs much better >than anything else available. (see www.mitsuicdrstore.com for white >papers). The duplication reject rate that our customers experience with >our media is ~ 1/10 of 1% (feedback from large corporate customers). >All of the CD-R media that we distribute in North America is >manufactured in our Colorado plant. > >---End Message from Mitsui--- > >Pete -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Chicago, Illinois > >_______________________________________________ >etree.org etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree > >Need help? Ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ etree.org etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree Need help? Ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
