At this week's NAB 2006 show, TDK is promising to introduce inkjet printable single-layer and dual-layer write-once Blu-ray Disc blanks - though not until the third quarter of 2006.
Discs are said to be coated all the way to their centre hubs with a special inkjet-optimized material that delivers "extremely bright, high-resolution full-color images and text" and also "prevents warping", something that's reckoned to be a potential problem with other inkjet coatings.
In a statement that, hopefully, won't come back to haunt him, Bruce Youmans, the company's VP of marketing, said that the discs, composed of "TDK's exclusive recording materials, copper and silicon, deliver remarkable, long-lasting performance", adding, "we see many applications that will benefit immensely from long life and massive data capacity".
The company also says that while hard-coating technology used on the burning face - and pioneered by TDK - is part of the Blu-ray Disc specification, only the company's own discs will have TDK's latest hard-coating technology, DURABIS 2, said to given even better resistance to scratches and fingerprints for "unparalleled durability and reliability".
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