Rimage is a producer of CD-R, DVD-R and Blu-Ray disc production systems. Rimage has introduced several CD (compact disc) printing technologies including Prism Plus, Everest III and, more recently, the Everest 600. Rimage's primary business is the production and sales of automated CD/DVD production systems which combine cd burners with robotics designed to load and unload discs. Read More

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A new era in high definition recordable media is here.
Expected to revolutionize data and high-definition video storage, the Blu-ray disc provides for high-capacity data recording and duplication of up to 50GB a disc.
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A DVD/CD Duplicator tower consist of two or more DVD/CD recorders in a single tower chassis (similar to a PC tower in size). DVD/CD duplicators can create multiple copies of a CD-R or DVD-R (and +R) simultaneously, with the number of simultaneous disc copies limited only by the number of recorders. Read More

DVD duplicators come in many sizes and shapes with the DVD tower as the most popular. CD DVD towers provide reliable service for recording CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R and Dual Layer DVD discs. DVD duplicators also come in a rack mount configuration which can be installed in a special computer rack, portable rack cases and rolling console racks. Read More

Rimage duplicators come is a variety of models, and they offer CD, DVD and Blu-ray recording capabilities. Read More

CD Duplication Machine

Purchasing a CD duplication machine makes good sense for individuals and companies with consistent disc publishing needs. Outsourcing CD and DVD duplication tasks can be very costly, and with self-publishing systems becoming increasingly affordable, tower, rack-mount and auto-loading disc replication units are gaining in popularity. Enhance Efficiency and Cut Costs with CD duplication machineand DVD Duplication Systems The simplest and most affordable systems offer one or two recorders housed in a tower unit, often featuring a built-in central processing unit that allows users to enter recording options without the need for an additional computer interface. Most base models also offer selectable speed features, allowing users to crank up the dial to maximum speed for time-sensitive jobs or ease the burden by slowing down to a more modest recording speed when time isn't such an issue. More advanced compact disc and CD duplication machine,DVD duplicators have multiple recorders to handle commercial mass disc production efforts. These auto-loading units are designed to run without any user input beyond the selection of disc burning options, and efficiently produce discs using patented automated technology. Consumers can also purchase a wide variety of printing and publishing products and accessories, including disc printers and jewel cases, to customize the appearance of the final product. "Consumers can also purchase a wide variety of printing and publishing products and accessories, including disc printers and jewel cases, to customize the appearance of the final product.." CD Dimensions Inc. carries a complete range of the most advanced technologies available on the market today, at excellent resale prices that save companies and individual consumers money. Each client is matched with an account executive that ensures that the right products are offered at the lowest possible prices. CD duplication machine

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The setting for audio CDs using a CD duplicator tower is not really a setting at all.  There are two factors that affect a CD recording onto disc: audio ripping speed and reader to writer performance.

Audio ripping speed determines the rate of audio extraction from the master CD disc.  unfortunately audio extraction can proceed at a higher rate then the CD-R drive can handle and led to errors on the copy.  This is because there is no 'error correction' on audio, only in data recording.  Essentially a DVD-ROM reader and DVD CD writer drive can only error correct data by predicting the data stream and creating it's best guess at the point of error. In a audio disc this manifests itself as pops and clicks in the recorded copy.

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When considering an automated auto-loading DVD duplicator several key points you should consider. 

1.  How many discs do you plan on duplicating?
2.  What type of label are you planning on printing on your discs?
3. Do you plan on using copy protection? 
4. How quickly to you want to turn around your disc job?

In order to realize the advantages of an auto loading DVD duplicator it's important to understand what it does, and what it does not do.

An auto-loading disc duplicator automates the process of placing discs in the disc burners and removing them after the recording is done. The process is done for a auto-loading DVD duplicator but if you plan on printing in-line the next step would be to place the disc into a printer tray.  The printer would label the disc and then the robotics would remove the disc and place it in the output bin.

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There are a number of technologies available to make a copy-protected disc using recordable CDs and DVDs. Basically two approaches exist: Hardware and software. This can also be combined to make a more robust solution.

• Hardware can modified to create illegal TOC or  files that make it difficult for a casual copy to be made.
• Discs can have special encryption encapsulation built into the first session of a blank disc like HexaLock. HexaLock provides protection on CD-R, DVD-Video and DVD-R Data recordable media.
• Rimage offers a product called "Rimage Video Protect" that works with the Rimage Producer and Professional Series Disc Publishers to encrypt on the fly.  It provides excellent protection without affecting its playability in computer and standalone player.

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Upgrading an IDE DVD duplicator to a SATA DVD duplicator is possible but expensive.

The IDE bus has been a mainstay of the computer industry for over 10 years and a disruptive technology introduced to disc duplicators about 5 years ago.

The original bus for CD DVD duplicators (DVD-R pre-authoring and authoring only) was SCSI.  SCSI was replaced when Pioneer and other drive manufacturers released the General Purpose DVD drives which were only IDE.  SCSI was never a big player in the computer world (outside of Enterprise applications) with the exception of Apple's Macs. 

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When 'value' comes up in a discussion about a DVD duplicator there are several questions you need to think about and answer for yourself to determine the best fit for your specific needs. 

1. Application: What are you planning on using the disc duplicator for? it may sound like an easy question but you need to think about your time factor for producing discs by recording and labeling. Hours, days, or weeks?
2. Output: How many discs do you need to produce that are exactly the same or 'one-offs' (different data and label for each disc)?
3. Cost: What is your budget?

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how much time is saved with a hdd cd duplicator? is a question that comes up a lot when discussing duplicator features with our clients. 

To answer this question we need to understand a little bit on the three recording modes of a controller based DVD duplicator found in a typical CD DVD tower. 

 

 

1. Disc to Disc
2. Disc to HDD to Disc
3. Disc to HDD  

Disc to Disc: This mode is a direct reading to recording process. One simply inserts a CD master copy into the reader drive and then unrecorded CDs into the recorder drives and the duplicator starts copying.  A CD DVD duplicator that does not have a hard drive runs only in this mode.

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Encryption and Copy Protection get a lot of attention  in the press and when discussing disc duplication. Two elements are important to remember. 

1. Are you planning on encrypting or copy protecting your content?
2. Are you planning on breaking someone elses encryption or copy protection? 

  We  will start with number 2

First as it's the most important.

In the United States and most countries, breaking or disabling copy protection or encryption is illegal.  Duplication equipment is not capable of breaking or bypassing copy protection or encryption. This applies more to DVD and Blu-ray then it does CDs.  Most CDs are not copy protected/encrypted.  They may have a copy protect "flag" on the disc which will then make it impossible to use a duplicator. Nor should you, right?

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Blu-ray recordable Technology offers high storage capacity: 25 Gigabytes on single layer Blu-ray Disc media (BD-R & BD-RE) and 50 Gigabytes on dual layer BD-R media. Blu-ray recordable is compatible with players and computer drives that read standard Blu-ray discs and offers both large storage capacity and high definition capabilities.

Blu-ray recorders and duplication systems offer the convenience of producing your own Blu-ray titles and spares the expense of some mandatory copy protection schemes that are required in BD-ROM production.

Best of all Blu-ray duplicators can still copy DVDs and CDs.  In fact one gets all four formats (including DVD+R) with Blu-ray multi-format duplication systems.

Blu-ray duplicators can be divided into two categories:

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I really wanted to label this post "CD duplicator or flash drive duplicator-what is a poor educator supposed to do?"

Xeroxing used to be the mainstay of the education field and now the digital age has made it possible to use a CD duplicator and, or a USB flash drive duplicator to distribute class notes and homework assignments. The use of  CDs and USB flash drives as the modern replacement to the mimeograph and notebook .

It's easy to understand that both CDs and USB flash drives hold data but they offer different advantages and disadvantages.

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 With ever increasing data storage requirements and the need to safely archive your data on stable media that is not effected by magnetic radiation and wear from contact with a read/write head. Recordable Blu-ray provides the next generation to DVD for archival data storage.  Not only does Blu-ray offer Write Once Read Many (WORM) type discs, rewritable recordable Blu-ray media is also available. Unlike having just a Blu-ray recorder the key to successful archiving is automatic operation and a robust file management system.  

Rule based file and drive backup is extremly important for many industries.  Especially with the requirements of high resolution imaging we see so much with the "Google Earth" experience.

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Five things to ask yourself before you buy a DVD Duplicator

 

 1.    How many discs do I need to burn in an hour?  A Week? 
 2.    Is speed or unattended operation more important?
 3.    What do you plan to do with the disc after you record it?
 4.    Is labeling required?
 5.    Does printing and duplication need to be combined?

 

With the above questions answered you can have a better idea of what to shop for in a CD/DVD duplicator.  Unfortunately price does play a part in some elements of disc publishing. That is where a little knowledge goes a long way.

..Really the only thing without a price is your time. 

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I'm teaching myself to play mandolin and it's a new world of music that I do not know.  Notes and chords, bridges and strings.  Like many things we have to learn new skills to accomplish the things we want to do.  I want to play mandolin, not learn how to play.  many times we all need a little help and that is why we came up with our buyers guide series on CD DVD and Blu-ray copying and duplication.learn about CD copiers, DVD duplicator and  HD Blu-ray recording and disc labeling.

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