Question About CD Duplicator Systems?

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Paithar

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I work for a company that produces it's own software for certain machines and every now and then they have to produce upgrade cd's. They don't have to produce very mahy only about 80 to 100. At least for now until they get more customer base.

Anyway, the way they do it right now is they have somebody (today is my turn) sit down at a laptop and burn these upgrade cd's one at a time. I was wondering what it would take to build my own cd duplicator system. You know, have a tower case with one cd drive (and/or hard drive) to hold the files to be copied and then about 6 or 7 cd burner drives below that?

Has anyone done this kind of thing before? Can software like Nero burn to multiple discs at the same time? If not then is there software out there that one can buy to do this? The reason I ask is because it seems that most cd duplicators cost a couple thousand dollars or more. I did find one place, http://www.proactionmedia.com/proddetail.asp?prod=Sony52x/ProActCD,
that appears to have the kind of system I'm talking of building for fairly reasonable prices. It was looking at their systems that I got to thinking what it would take to build my own.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Paithar
 
Sarversystems (that is a user name) knows all about doing that. Look him up and ask him.

As far as I know (since I built mine so long ago-then sold it) you need just the following:

CD-ROM (for reading the source material)
Controller card (for control of the burners and such)
HDD (completely optional, not needed at all)
CD-R/RW (how ever many you need up to the amount your controller card can handle.)
PSU (350-400W can handle a 1to9 setup easy with a hdd.)
Tower that can hold them all. (or mod one that can't)

Wytron makes a good controller card.

(EDIT**** Here is sarversystems profile if you want to ask him http://hardforum.com/member.php?userid=34983 )

Also, since these are for a business, if you want to print on them....check out http://www.primera.com/ . I use to build the units myself. :)
 
Give me a jingle on YIM (g0t0pless2000) or PM me on here about this.

There are many many MANY options to go over. Too many to post here. It would be much easier to speak with you in real time.

But yeah, in a nutshell:

CDROM
CD burner (up to 99)
controller
case(s) that can hold all of the drives.

Tiny: Thanks for the referral.

Also, take a look in here: www.sarversystems.com/projects to see some pics of the last few CD duplicators and DVD duplicators that I built.
 
There are a couple of reasons why I don't simply buy one already made. One is that where I work they have a lot of unused systems sitting around and most have a cd burner drive in them (of varying speeds and brands). So I think that I already have the main parts of what it would take to build one. Another is I just like the thought of putting one together on my own.

Also, if I used one of the extra cases they have here I don't think they'd mind of I did a bit of modding to. You know things like adding a window with the company logo on it and maybe lighting it up. Also, so as not to take up too much room (since space is limited in our offices) maybe doing some kind of 7" lcd mod that would be the main (only) monitor for the system.
 
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