CD bulk duplicators

External Since: Jun 20, 2004 Posts: 2

whoops! well, what I meant to say was.....

Hi! My partner and I are building a CD duplication facility for an
educational multimedia project. We need to duplicate sets of 20 cd's at
the rate of several hundred sets per day. We also need label printing,
fairly high quality, and of course, mac and/or unix compatibility

II've been to cdw's website, and they have oodles of machines that fit
the bill, except there is no info on whether these gadgets work with
anything but windows. I'm perfectly happy to use open source drivers,
but I have to know they exist and that my devices support them/are
supported.

I don't have the cash to hire a consultant, but I would be happy to
offer whatever knowledge I have that you might find useful (Unix
networking, apple networking, applescript, Internet "lizard-brain"
stuff. I was an internet pioneer, most of my knowledge is stale now, but
some of it is still very useful and far rarer than it once was. Thanks in advance!

Tim

External Since: Sep 06, 2003 Posts: 23

In article <bvpdl3$15c$1@reader2.panix.com>, Tim Murphy
<josh123.DeleteThis@panix.com> wrote:

> whoops! well, what I meant to say was.....
>
> Hi! My partner and I are building a CD duplication facility for an
> educational multimedia project. We need to duplicate sets of 20 cd's at
> the rate of several hundred sets per day. We also need label printing,
> fairly high quality, and of course, mac and/or unix compatibility
>
> II've been to cdw's website, and they have oodles of machines that fit
> the bill, except there is no info on whether these gadgets work with
> anything but windows. I'm perfectly happy to use open source drivers,
> but I have to know they exist and that my devices support them/are
> supported.
>
> I don't have the cash to hire a consultant, but I would be happy to
> offer whatever knowledge I have that you might find useful (Unix
> networking, apple networking, applescript, Internet "lizard-brain"
> stuff. I was an internet pioneer, most of my knowledge is stale now, but
> some of it is still very useful and far rarer than it once was. Thanks in advance!
>
> Tim

The best CD duplicators are stand alone and don't require either a Mac
or PC.
You pop your original into the top drive and blanks into the lower ones.
There are really impressive ones that both duplicate and print your CDs.
I am surprised you can't have this done for less than the cost of
setting up your own operation.