Duplicator4All.com Christmas holiday working hours and shipping dates

Dear valued customer, please be advised that our last shipping date before Christmas will be December 23rd. Whilst we will do everything we can to ensure you receive your order prior to the Christmas and break, you would be well advised to order now to avoid disappointment. Please call us on 0800 066 4559 so that we can ensure dispatch of your goods
All orders placed after will be dispatched on January 4th 2011

If you need to contact us over the Christmas period you may do by emailing us at: office@duplicator4all.com

Finally on behalf of everyone at Duplicator4All.com I would like to wish all our customers a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Duplicator4All.com Team

Why buy from Systor Systems ?

1. In business since 1997 and A+ rated company with BBB

2. Direct Manufacturer

3. Ultra fast shipping via UPS Worldwide

4. Lifetime tech support via email, toll free phone and chat

5. Most advanced and up to date technology available

Why Lightscribe worth its money ?

If you don’t know what Lightscribe is then take a moment and discover a whole new way to label your discs using only your CD/DVD Burners.

This innovative technology can be used only by special disc drives and special label-making software to burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs.

With this innovating technology you can create whatever you want and print it on your special CD without using any cartridges.

If you wonder how this Lightscribe technology works then you should know that the laser inside a CD/DVD burner with Lightscribe technology focuses light energy onto a thin dye coating on the label side of the disc, you should know that only the lightscribe discs have this special coating so don’t try to burn other CD/DVD but the ones using the Lightscribe feature.

For more info please visit www.lightscribe.com

 

What hard drive type can fit into your Systor duplicator?

A lot of clients are facing this question. They buy a duplicator, and then they want to add a hard drive. Well, starting this year, we've dropped IDE Duplicators production, and we manufacture only SATA duplicators (all of them are SATA, even the LightScribe and Blu Ray duplicators). So basically, any hard drive that connects on SATA or SATA 2, can be installed into your duplicator. You just need to follow a few steps :

• Open your duplicator's case by unscrewing the screws on the back case
• Search for the free blue SATA port on the back of controller
• Connect a SATA cable to that port
• Then, put a hard drive in the top bay of the duplicator (it's made for that, it has the size of a hard disk drive) and fix it with screws
• Connect the SATA cable you've just connected to controller to the hard disk drive, and also connect a SATA power source cable, you'll find at least one free inside the tower
• Put back the case, mount the screws, and start your duplicator

Now, after the booting part, your duplicator will recognize the hard disk drive, and will ask you about the partition size, because it will split the hard drive into partitions (CD, DVD or Auto size). We recommend chosing Auto size, because it will create a partition of your master disc size, each time you chose to load a disc image into the duplicator.

After loading images to your hard drive, simply select the hard drive as source, and fill the burning drives with blanks, select Copy and select the image you want to burn.

 

It's as simple as that.

Update your duplicator’s firmware safely

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Well, let’s start with the definition, what is a firmware update? According to Wikipedia,” firmware is a term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and/or data structures that internally control various electronic devices.”

To describe it better in this case, for duplicators, firmware updates are released for three reasons :

1. A new burning drive model has become compatible with the duplicator’s controller, or a higher hard disk drive capacity is supported in the newer software version, and that requires an update for the device firmware.
2. A bug was discovered, and the firmware’s purpose is to fix it.

Our dvd duplicators are delivered with the latest firmware updates, but sometimes they are released often. Anyway, before performing any update to your duplicator, we suggest consulting our technical support first, because if something goes wrong, a defective firmware update can destroy the controller.

In our duplicators, we use 2 controller types : one is for regular SATA Duplicators, the other for the LightScribe SATA Duplicators, and I will describe in short lines about getting to Advanced Settings menu, where the Update Firmware option is, along with other useful options for professionals :

For type 1 (SATA Duplicators) : Press, and hold pressed for about 3 seconds the ESC key, then release it, and the Advanced Settings menu will show up

For type 2 (LightScribe SATA Duplicators) : Press, and hold pressed for about 3 seconds the ESC key, release it, then press and hold pressed for another 3 seconds the ENT key. Once released, the Advanced settings menu will show up on your duplicator’s display.

The update procedure is quite simple. You ask for the latest file from our tech support, then burn it to a disc, put it in your duplicator’s source drive and go to the options mentioned above. From there, you find the “Update Firmware” option which once selected will search for the update file on the master disc, and you need only to confirm It by pressing ENT. After the update has been applied, the duplicator needs to restart. A BIG WARNING HERE !!! DO NOT restart the duplicator by yourself, unless the tower requires that. Otherwise, the software re-writing of the controller master chip will not be complete and you won’t be able to use your duplicator. That is why, we recommend you to contact our tech support first, before performing any updates :

-          E-mail : techsupport@duplicator4all.com

-          Phone : 0800.066.4559 (UK TollFree number)

-          Online : simply go to www.duplicator4all.com and click on “Live Support” on the left side

 

Issues with the burned discs / discs failure rate

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Some people encountered high failure rates while duplicating discs, but I can assure you in 99% of the cases, it is not a duplicator fault. So here are a few tips and tricks that you can use while duplicating :

-          Check your burning speed for the disc type you want to copy. Our recommendations are 24x for CD’s (16x if you copy an audio CD), and 8x for DVD (if media is 16x, if not, 4x)

-          Check your media type (low cost unbranded media have a high failure rate directly from the factory, because they don’t comply to any quality standards, so many discs can come damaged from the factory)

-          If you encountered a high failure rate on a brand of discs, lower the burning speed and do a tryout. You will notice the disc burning jobs won’t fail.

-          If you did that and still got fails, you can open your duplicator’s case and check the cables from all the drives, plus controller (sometimes, due to transportation, the cable plugs might move a bit from their initial place, and the result is an imperfect contact, which can drop from time to time, causing data loss when you burn with those drives) . Simply push them firmly and then try again.

However, if these advices didn’t help, please contact our tech support at any time, by e-mail, Online or phone :

-          E-mail : techsupport@duplicator4all.com

-          Phone : 0800.066.4559 (UK TollFree number)

-          Online : simply go to www.duplicator4all.com and click on “Live Support” on the left side

What is Lightscribe ?

What is LightScribe?

Here's a question that many people can't answer.

LightScribe is an innovative technology that uses a special disc drive, special media, and label-making software to burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs.

Because the labels are laser-etched—not printed—there's no ink, no smudging, and no peeling.

Your labels can be whatever you want them to be. Create one-of-a-kind designs with your own photos, text, and artwork using your label-making software.

 

How it works ?

The laser inside a CD/DVD disc drive with LightScribe technology focuses light energy onto a thin dye coating on the label side of the disc. Only LightScribe media has this special coating.

The light from the laser causes a chemical change in the dye coating that shows up on the disc. With laser precision, the drive renders the text and images that you created for the label.

There are three different layout modes for burning labels:

• Full mode. Although it takes longer, this is the mode to use for a full-disc image.

• Content mode. Perfect for creating artful borders around the center of the disc.

• Title mode. Great for a small amount of text or graphics. This is the quickest mode.

LightScribe labels burn in concentric circles, moving outward from the center of the disc. Images with the largest diameters will take longest to burn.

 

What do you need ?

LightScribe Enabled Drive

You must have a LightScribe-enabled disc drive (either built into your desktop or notebook PC or an external drive).

LightScribe System Software

Now that you have the LightScribe enabled drive you will need the LightScribe System Software (LSS), which is similar to a driver.

Labeling Application The type of LightScribe software you use will depend on what's bundled with your hardware. Media LightScribe CDs and DVDs have a special coating that interacts with the laser in your LightScribe-enabled disc drive. You must use LightScribe CDs and DVDs in order to burn a label onto your discs. A few things to remember about LightScribe media: LightScribe label designs appear grayscale (like a black-and-white photograph). LightScribe CDs come in gold, yellow, orange, green, red, and blue. LightScribe DVDs available in multi-color packs including red, green, blue, yellow, and orange backgrounds!   And to make everything easier, we made a tutorial for all the users facing problems with the LightScribe system :

USB duplicator 7 target Systor

We made a new test with a 7 target USB Duplicator :

USB Active issue

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You received your duplicator but your bottom burning drive is not working? Well, this might be a common settings issue. Because our towers are tested before shipping them to the warehouse, the USB setting might be active. So, in order to use your bottom burning drive, you must de-activate it.

There’s a thing you should understand. A drive cannot be connected to 2 control devices at a time, in this case can’t be connected and visible to the PC, and controllable by the duplicator at the same time.

So, in order to fix that, in the main menu of your duplicator, depending on the version, you have one of two ways :

1.Navigate  using the arrow keys to the “USB Option” or “USB Connection”, which is usually the last option and switch it to OFF, and wait for the duplicator to restart

 

OR

 

2.Navigate using the arrow keys to the “Setup” option and inside this option search for “USB Option” or “External Connection” and switch it to OFF. Again, wait for the duplicator to restart

 

Now your duplicator’s bottom burner is NOT connected anymore to the PC, it’s controlled by the duplicator’s controller, and you can use it for it’s main purpose, duplicating discs.

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USB Active issue

You received your duplicator but your bottom burning drive is not working? Well, this might be a common settings issue. Because our towers are tested before shipping them to the warehouse, the USB setting might be active. So, in order to use your bottom burning drive, you must de-activate it.

There’s a thing you should understand. A drive cannot be connected to 2 control devices at a time, in this case can’t be connected and visible to the PC, and controllable by the duplicator at the same time.

So, in order to fix that, in the main menu of your duplicator, depending on the version, you have one of two ways :

1.Navigate  using the arrow keys to the “USB Option” or “USB Connection”, which is usually the last option and switch it to OFF, and wait for the duplicator to restart

 

OR

 

2.Navigate using the arrow keys to the “Setup” option and inside this option search for “USB Option” or “External Connection” and switch it to OFF. Again, wait for the duplicator to restart

 

Now your duplicator’s bottom burner is NOT connected anymore to the PC, it’s controlled by the duplicator’s controller, and you can use it for it’s main purpose, duplicating discs.

Blu-Ray Duplicators – high capacity storage for data, movies, media and much more

Blu-ray is the new tech high capacity storage standard for hi-definiton movies and rich media content. The range of Blu-Ray duplicators from Duplicator4all.com offers professional operation for those looking to produce high quality copies of their HD originals. With targets from 1 to 15 it has never been faster, easier or cheaper to produce large volumes of Blu-Ray discs. As a producer and retailer we aim to keep our standard at the highest level possible for our customers. We use only the best components from the world leading manufacturers to ensure that our products offer the highest level of service for the longest possible time. For more information about the latest professioanl Blu-Ray duplicating and publishing systems from Duplicator4all.com please call UK Toll FREE 0800 066 4559 800-066-4559 0-800-066-4559.

All Duplicator4all.com duplicators are available and ready to ship out from our facility located in 50 Whittle Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, ST3 7TU, United Kingdom. Please do not hesitate to contact us by mail sales@duplicator4all.com or by phone at UK Toll FREE 0800 066 4559.

Why would my company need a network duplicator?

Why would my company need a network duplicator?
Increasingly large corporations might choose not to include optical drives in client terminals across the network. Network users will still require the functionality of optical disc burning however; and the Produplicator's network ready duplicator is the perfect solution. Produplicator's network attached tower duplicator offers network wide access to the hard drive of the tower duplicator. Remote users can drag and drop content from their terminals, clients and network PCs directly to the hard drive of the duplicator. Once on the duplicator the users data is stored in named partitions ready to be mass duplicated by the tower operator. This is a great function for large organisations that need total and seamless control over their duplication process.

Produplicator.com news. 

 

Video Lightscribe Tutorial

So that you can better understand how to create an image, burn it to the CD and then use it with a lightscribe duplicator we have done this video tutorial for you. Hope you’ll find it usefull

Produplicator  CD DVD Duplicator Copier Techsupport Team 9/15/2010

 

Eclipse adds fortium's patronus DVD copy-protection support

Eclipse Data Technologies has added Fortium’s Patronus copy‐protection support to its premastering, glass‐mastering, and verification tools. The Fortium copy‐protection plug‐in will be included in all new Eclipse software versions.

Patronus anti rip copy protection, widely used to protect sensitive Academy Award screeners, was released for DVD manufacturing this year. By using a proprietary encapsulation technique deep within the disc structure, it successfully protects against some of the most aggressive ripping programs while confirming to the DVD standard and ensuring full playability.

Eclipse’s analysis, mastering and bit‐to‐bit verification software will automatically recognise and report the presence of Patronus protected images, allowing seamless processing through a factory.

“Our agreement with Eclipse makes the addition of Patronus into the replicator’s workflow a seamless process and removes the financial or operational hurdles in offering it to customers,” added Mathew Gilliat‐Smith, CEO of Fortium.

Patronus is already being offered to content owners by a range of replication and mastering plants including the Technicolor group, Deluxe Digital Services, VDC Group, Synchronicity and Digital Works.

News - www.produplicator.com

Produplicator's Daisy Chain Duplicators Benefits

Produplicator’s Daisy Chain Towers offer a virtual firewall against mass failed discs across multiple towers What's the purpose of purchasing a series of Daisy Chain duplicators? It's to produce a mass number of copies from a single master. The concept behind daisy chain duplicators is that you can connect multiple towers together so that when loaded with blank media, they can all simultaneously copy a single master project onto every disc in every drive across every tower at the same time. So if your goal is to record an huge number of discs simultaneously, quickly, then any mishaps that could cause a large portion of the discs to fail the duplication process would not only be extremely frustrating and time consuming, but also extremely costly. Multiple towers all giving bad discs is far more costly than a single tower failing. That’s the difference between Produplicator and the competition. Our daisy chain duplicators function in a manner that creates a natural firewall to prevent the mishaps of one tower affecting the rest of the towers in the chain. The difference being that the competition does not offer this capability and is far riskier in encountering a massive failure for all or a majority of discs being duplicated. The concept is simple, picture the daisy chain towers are like houses and each room in the house is like each tower in the chain. The power for the houses is like the data flowing to each drive in the daisy chain. So if you have a house with 10 rooms (think 10 separate towers in a daisy chain configuration) if there are no circuit breakers or just a single circuit breaker for the whole house, then if there is a power surge that disrupts the power flow it will knock out the power in the entire house. If each room has its own circuit breaker (like each tower in the Produplicator Daisy Chain), then if there is a power surge in any particular room, it will only affect that particular room and the rest of the rooms in the house will function as normal. So the circuit breakers in each room, just like the hard drives in each tower, will act to isolate each tower from harm while still allowing the power/data to flow freely to each room/drive in the unaffected areas. So what would you rather have, the assurance that if you have a drive that locks up or freezes, because you're using low cost/grade media, that it will not affect the majority of discs being duplicated? Or, take the chance that if the same thing happens on a non-Produplicator daisy chain system that you could lose every disc across all towers? Even with cheap media, that adds up and costs you time and effort as well to replace all those discs. When you’re making so many discs at one time and time and costs are important to you, do you really want to take that chance? If you’d like more clarification on the differences between the Produplicator Daisy Chain and the competition, feel free to contact our office anytime.

Produplicator's Daisy Chain Duplicators Benefits

Produplicator’s Daisy Chain Towers offer a virtual firewall against mass failed discs across multiple towers What's the purpose of purchasing a series of Daisy Chain duplicators? It's to produce a mass number of copies from a single master. The concept behind daisy chain duplicators is that you can connect multiple towers together so that when loaded with blank media, they can all simultaneously copy a single master project onto every disc in every drive across every tower at the same time. So if your goal is to record an huge number of discs simultaneously, quickly, then any mishaps that could cause a large portion of the discs to fail the duplication process would not only be extremely frustrating and time consuming, but also extremely costly. Multiple towers all giving bad discs is far more costly than a single tower failing. That’s the difference between Produplicator and the competition. Our daisy chain duplicators function in a manner that creates a natural firewall to prevent the mishaps of one tower affecting the rest of the towers in the chain. The difference being that the competition does not offer this capability and is far riskier in encountering a massive failure for all or a majority of discs being duplicated. The concept is simple, picture the daisy chain towers are like houses and each room in the house is like each tower in the chain. The power for the houses is like the data flowing to each drive in the daisy chain. So if you have a house with 10 rooms (think 10 separate towers in a daisy chain configuration) if there are no circuit breakers or just a single circuit breaker for the whole house, then if there is a power surge that disrupts the power flow it will knock out the power in the entire house. If each room has its own circuit breaker (like each tower in the Produplicator Daisy Chain), then if there is a power surge in any particular room, it will only affect that particular room and the rest of the rooms in the house will function as normal. So the circuit breakers in each room, just like the hard drives in each tower, will act to isolate each tower from harm while still allowing the power/data to flow freely to each room/drive in the unaffected areas. So what would you rather have, the assurance that if you have a drive that locks up or freezes, because you're using low cost/grade media, that it will not affect the majority of discs being duplicated? Or, take the chance that if the same thing happens on a non-Produplicator daisy chain system that you could lose every disc across all towers? Even with cheap media, that adds up and costs you time and effort as well to replace all those discs. When you’re making so many discs at one time and time and costs are important to you, do you really want to take that chance? If you’d like more clarification on the differences between the Produplicator Daisy Chain and the competition, feel free to contact our office anytime.

Blu-Ray Media from Produplicator.com

Produplicator.com is now offering Optical Quantum certified 6X speed Blu-ray write once recordable media

As Blu-ray duplication becomes more and more popular, one factor that becomes an issue is the time it takes to make the copies. Because of the extremely large capacity of Blu-ray discs (over five times larger than a DVD), the disc writing speed is critically important. The speed is not just a factor in the time it takes to make the copy, but also ensuring that the recordable disc and writer drive will be capable of handling that speed.

That's why produplicator is proud to support Optical Quantum's newest 6X certified BD-R media. This new media will shave minutes off your duplication times, especially important for large production runs. It has been proven to successfully burn at 6X speeds across all reputable Blu-ray writer drives on the market today.