CD Duplication

Media replication is a specialist field. Mastering & Replication is our Speciality.

Don't trust your data duplication to just anyone.

Over the past year or so, domestic CD-R writers have dropped to incredibly low prices. So much so that many people are now "burning" their own personal CD-ROMs and Audio discs - which is great to see. Those a little more adventurous (or those wanting to break the law....)  have units that will burn 5 or 6 discs at a time using domestic type CD-R drives.

In our opinion, trusting your data to these type of operators is risky, to say the least.
We've lost count of the number of customers who have had their duplications done by one of these types of businesses - be they a printer, a graphic or internet design house or whatever - only to come to us to have the job re-done.

The main problem here of course is that domestic type CD-R drives were never meant for continuous duty operation (i.e. in duplication systems) and - after a period of time through normal "wear & tear" - are prone to producing discs with a significant number of data errors.

The primary reason for the increased number of data errors is due to the fact that the majority of CD-R drives used by these sorts of establishments were designed for light-duty only and are not built to the same standards and tolerances as industrial-grade CD writers.

As always, you get what you pay for and CD-R writers are no exception. There are genuine reasons why some CD-R drives are available for a few hundred dollars while the pro-quality drives still cost several thousand.

Soap-box Time....

• Fact: There is a lot of "junk" media available in the CD-R market.
• Fact: People often buy bargain priced media because it's cheap with no real thought as to WHY it might be so cheap.
• Fact: When "cheap" media is used, it is usually the CD-R recorder that gets the blame when a lot of CD-shaped drink-coasters are produced as a result of the poor quality media being used.

In most cases, the money wasted making "drink coasters" would more than offset the cost difference of purchasing and using a high-quality CD-R media.

We know CD-R media. We burn CD's for a living! If the low-grade stuff was as good as the high-grade media, we'd use it! But it's not.

Using high-quality media, our "coaster-count" averages at less than 1 in 4000!! - which saves us time, saves us money, and allows us to have complete confidence in the duplications we produce.