New topic - CD Replication

[mrkshrt at transparentsolutions.com]

Since it is not necessarily going to be something they do all the time, I am
really looking for someone to do it as a service.
Not someone on the list, necessarily either, someone who already has made
the investment in the hardware and can do it at a commodity rate.

Rick P., I know you looked into this and maybe did it, but can't remember
what you ended up doing.
Should have asked you other day, but since I brought it up on list, maybe
others can use info as well.

Mark

PS. I already have a couple of CD/RW drives, but feeding them isn't my idea
of a good time. and it isn't profitable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 12:48 PM
To: mrkshrt at transparentsolutions.com
Cc: KCLUG (E-mail)
Subject: RE: New topic - CD Replication

Yeah, buy a multiple CD burner. They tend to be $$$$ for any useful
ones. OS independent, start around $500 for 1-to-1 copiers, $1500 for
1-to-5 copiers, and grows geometrically. These things take a master disk
and copy it bit for bit to 1,2,4,6,10,100,... CDs simultaneously. 

Another option, would be to build yourself a Linux CDR/W tower (better
use SCSI for this), connect it to your network, write a burn script
wrapper around your favorite CD burning utility, and BAM! your in the CD
burning business.

And still another option would be to build your own standalone burner
tower. You can get a 1-to-5 burner controller for around $300, then  all
you need to do is get a case, 5 CDR/Ws and you've got yourself a
duplicating tower. Probably won't save much this route, but maybe.

It might be an interesting project to build a Linux CD Burning tower.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrkshrt at transparentsolutions.com
> [mailto:mrkshrt at transparentsolutions.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 11:52 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: New topic - CD Replication
> 
> 
> Slightly off topic, but maybe applicable if someone wants to 
> burn a bunch of
> Linux distros.
> 
> Anybody have any information on bulk duplication of CD-ROMs?
> 
> Currently would just be for 100 or so, could be more later.
> 
> Vendors, prices, reliability, etc...
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark Short
> 
> PS. this is for something legal, so no copyright infringement 
> issues or
> anything like that :)
> 
> 
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