1. What is CD Duplication?
Duplication is the process of burning music or data onto recordable CDs or DVDs. You can order
duplication runs between 10 and 499 discs. If you’re after 500 or more discs they are usually replicated
(pressed discs).
Why duplication?
Duplicated CDs or DVDs are perfect for low quantity, fast turnaround orders. Coupled with our un-
beatable short run cardboard printing options, you can get great looking product on time, no sweat!
The burning process
We use A-grade, high quality blank media for all of our duplication runs.All CD duplication runs are
burned at x16 speed. Our CDs can fit 700mb or 80 minutes of CD audio. To ensure the integrity of your
content every disc we burn is verified. Our disc burners produce audio discs that are compliant with the
Red Book standard and data discs that are compliant with the Yellow Book standard.
All DVD duplication runs are burned at x8 speed. We can produce DVD-R single layer (DVD-5) or DVD+R
dual layer (DVD-9) DVDs. DVD-5 discs can fit up to 4.7GB of data. DVD-9 discs can fit up to 8.5GB of data.
To ensure the integrity of your content every disc we burn is verified.
Printing
Our CD and DVDs have a white printable coating (no stickers!) that can be inkjet printed with your
artwork. Our high resolution inkjet printers produce clear, bright, vibrant colours. We can also print
shiny silver discs with black text. In this case we use a thermal printing process to bond the print to the
disc surface. This is a cost effective cd printing option and is popular for simple and effective promo CDs.
We offer 3 price levels of printing: black text print, basic print and full print.
Black text: black text or basic black logo on a silver or white disc.
Basic print: up to 1/3 of the disc surface printed black or full colour
Full print: more than 1/3 of the disc surface printed black or full colour
For an added layer of protection the printed disc can be coated with a protective, UV cured lacquer. This
UV coating also gives the disc an eye popping glossy finish. We recommend it for dark colored or bright,
vibrant artwork.
What we need from you
2. Master CD or DVD
We recommend that you have your master disc professionally produced. We prefer the following
format:
an error checked CD or DVD master
If you can only supply files there will be a master creation fee of $25.
We can only make CD masters from the following file formats:
Audio
wav files at 16 bit 44.1 KHz
DDP file set
iso file
Data
any data files up to the size limit of a CD-R
ISO file
We can only make DVD masters from the following file formats:
Data
any data files up to the size limit of a DVD-R
iso file
We do not encode to DVD video from movie files.
Artwork
Artwork needs to be set up to our specs and supplied as print ready pdfs files.
How long does it take?
Duplicated CD orders take 1-3 working days to complete. Delivery to most major metro cities in Australia
is 1-3 working days.
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