Specifications

CopyDisc Duplicator Series

This menu option will only be visible if you have a Printer attached to your CopyDisc

Platinum Series. Use this option if you only require discs to be printed, and not

duplicated.

The menu gives the user the option to either load a new PRN files from a CD-R, or

select an existing PRN file from the HD. You can also select the quantity required.

3.4.3 Batch Mode

Batch Copying CD-R is used for making small quantity copies from multiple

masters. Instead of loading in a master or using a master image already on the hard

drive, masters are mixed with the blanks on the Input spindle and then read in

immediately before copying. The number of copies required is not specified, this will

depend on the amount of blank CD-Rs or DVDs included on the input spindle

between the masters.

This is the ideal way to make small numbers of copies of multiple masters.

NOTE:

Because the batch mode is unattended, masters read in will not be saved on

the hard drive but overwritten by each subsequent master.

Batch mode works by taking the first disc, which always must be a master, and

reading it to the HD. After a successful read, the master is placed on the output

spindle and the next disc is loaded into the next drive, until all drives are populated

with discs. At this point, the drives are checked to see if they contain a blank disc, or

another master disc. Blank discs consecutive to the first master are written with that

image. Where a disc containing data is found, and once the preceding blank discs

are written with the previous image, this new master is read, and used as the image

for subsequent blank discs. This process continues until an input empty is detected.

For error handling, since the system is designed to run unattended, only the first

master read is considered critical - any error reading this disc (or optionally

comparing) will result in the batch job aborting. Where a read error occurs beyond

the first master - i.e. master 2 or later - batch mode attempts to recover, and at least

continue the rest of the discs by rejecting all the blanks that would be used with that

bad master. The master (being a special case, and considered of value) is placed

into the output spindle, while its blanks are rejected without being written.

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