What is the best solution for duplicating dvds (including printing the cover)? I saw the publisher jawns that let you stack a bunch of blank disks and walk away, but was not impressed by their performance since they burn one or two at a time... so I was looking at assembling a tower with 7-9 burners.

What controller and drives do you guys recommend? What options are there for handling the cover printing in bulk? I'm looking more for a DIY solution than a pre-fab device.


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I mean, are you trying to mass produce discs for distribution? If so, I recommend Googling for a duplication service, as it usually saves you time and headache for about the same cost as building or buying your own 7-9-disc duplication setup.

Me and my friend do this dance recital every year, and I forget the name of the place he uses to get the duplications done, but they have speedy turnaround and a box of 100 DVDs usually runs about $125 with the artwork on the discs and in the sleeves.

at a part of the world where no one is doing this right now. the components seem pretty straight forward:

- duplicator controller (~$100)
- disc drives (1 source and multiple destinations... ~$25 each)
- optional hard drive (~$65)
- case (~$125)

I was looking for recommendations of specific components.

discduplicators.com or buy a duplicator from guitar center or something like that. I have built a mnany of computers but not duplication towers it might not be worth the headache to be honest.

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the tricky stuff is the automated loading process. there are robotic arm solutions out there, i'm just having a hard time finding them. the duplicators sold on the market are huge rip-offs IMO.

here's how I see it:

you have a simple controller unit, a bunch of drives, and a hard drive for the main device. if this is a 10 disc system, that would come out to about $400. then you have the automated loading mechanism... i'm just not convinced that this addition merits the money that these companies are charging.

Primera's one copy unit that only burns and prints one disc at a time goes for ~$1600. that's just two drives (one for read, one for write), the controller, an inkjet printer, and a damn robotic arm. the thing probably costs less than $200 to make per unit, and they selling it for such a high amount of money... cmon.
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what kind of bandwidth does that use?
how much RAM is required for each burner?
Will a standard harddisk be able to provide enough bandwidth to server multiple disks at once?
What kind of software can handle multiple burners?

lottsa of variables to consider here.

Fuck your sig.

it saved a lotta money.

a 7-8 jount costs like over 1000 or so.
1300 when i sold one at the store.

but all you need is the master drive, the burners, the controller and a good case and power supply.

check this: http://www.copystars.com/duplicator_controller_10_ctg.htm

as far as a case, there's a thermaltake case that has about 10 bays for drives.

its pretty easy to build tho. you'll save a grip.

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i bought an 11 target controller and was trying to find a 13 bay case. searched "duplicator case" and "multi-bay case"... so far only found this site, but not sure about their reliability:

http://salestores.com/smarrc12.html
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search for server cases.

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