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 coloured or bright, vibrant artwork.

What we need from you

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.

We’re happy to accommodate urgent requests where possible, just contact one of our sales staff!

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