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Manage Accounts Feature Overview - continued
View User
This menu allows you to view current existing user accounts.
1. Press the ENT button to enter into this menu. Press the ESC button to go back 
to the main menu or cancel the current selection.
Note: User “Admin” is the administrative account. It will always be 
there.
Create User
This menu allows you to create additional user accounts. Each user has their own 
settings and hard drive partitions. During this process, you will be prompted to enter 
a new user name and user password for a new account.
1. Press the ENT button to enter into this menu. Press the ESC button to go back 
to the main menu or cancel the current selection.
Note: User name can consists of maximum 8 alphanumeric letters or 
numbers.
Note: User password will consist of 4 numbers.
Edit User Info
This menu allows you to change an existing user account’s name and password. You 
will be asked to select an existing user account and then enter a new user name and 
new user password.
1. Press the ENT button to enter into this menu. Press the ESC button to go back 
to the main menu or cancel the current selection.
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Note: User “Admin” is the administrative account, you can NOT 
change the user name for this account, but you will be able to 
change the password for this account.
Note: User name consists of maximum 8 alphanumeric letters or 
numbers.
Note: User password will consist of 4 numbers. 
Delete User
This menu allows you to delete an existing user account. You will be asked to select 
and existing user account to be removed.
1. Press the ENT button to enter into this menu. Press the ESC button to go back 
to the main menu or cancel the current selection.
Note: User “Admin” is the administrative account; you can NOT 
delete this account.
Password on Bootup
This menu allows you to enable/disable the “Manage Accounts” feature upon boot 
up. During this process, you will be asked to select ON or OFF (enable/disable).
1. Press ENT button to enter into this menu. Press the ESC button to go back to 
the main menu or cancel the current selection.
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Introduction to Duplication Mode
This feature reduces the “Duplication from Hard Drive” process to a single step.
There are three features under “Duplication mode”:
1. On the Fly
2. Load and Copy
3. Prompt
On the Fly
This mode instructs the duplicator to copy directly from the Master Disc. The 
duplicator performs simultaneous read and write operations without any delays.
Advantage:
 ▪Ideal for small quantity quick duplication.
Disadvantage:
 ▪Requires a Master Disc for each and every run. (Could be harmful for the 
Master Disc.)
 ▪Maximum DVD duplication speed is typically limited under 8x.
 ▪Requires the Master Disc to be in excellent condition for error free duplication.
Load and Copy
This mode instructs the duplicator to load your Master Disc into the built-in hard 
drive partition called “Reserved” and make the requested quantity of copies directly 
from the hard drive. The content will remain stored in the “Reserved” partition, 
available for future duplications of the same project until you perform this function 
again with a new master or manually rename or delete the content from Hard Drive 
Setup. Once a new master is used for Load and Copy, the “Reserved” partition will 
be overridden or one will be created if it didn’t exist.
Advantage:
 ▪Faster duplication in a long run. (Un-Restricted DVD Duplication speed 
supported by the duplication blank media.)
 ▪Stable duplication.
 ▪Reliable duplication.
Prompt
If you set to “Prompt”, when you go to 1. Copy, you will be asked if you want to do 
“Load and Copy” or “on the Fly”. If you set Duplication Mode to “Load and Copy” or 
“On the Fly”, you will not be prompted when you go to 1. Copy. The duplicator will do 
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Disadvantage:
 ▪The loading time may have an impact on overall duplication time for small 
duplication jobs.
 ▪The Master Disc will be loaded to the reserve partition in the Hard Drive 
temporarily until a new master is loaded and overrides the previous image. 
In comparing this duplication mode with the traditional “Duplication from 
Hard Drive” process, it offers the user more simplicity. By selecting the 
“Load and Copy” mode via one simple touch, all the necessary tasks will 
be automated for you and loaded on to the “Reserved” partition. You can 
rename the data on the “Reserved” partition and place it in a standard 
partition if you wish to keep it. (This must be done prior to loading a new 
master through “Load and Copy)”.
By default, the duplication mode is set to “Auto”. This will prompt you to choose 
between one of the duplication modes when you enter any of the following 
functions: “Copy”, “Test”, “Test + Copy”, and “Copy + Compare”.
However, if you prefer not to be prompted each time, you can always go to “14. 
Setup” and select sub-menu 9 and manually reset it. To do so, preform the following 
steps:
1. Turn on the duplicator. After the bootup is complete, you will see the following 
display:
2. Press the UP or DOWN button consecutively until you see following display:
3. Press ENT button once. You will see the following display:
4. Press the UP or DOWN button consecutively until you see following display:
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Introduction to Duplication Mode - continued 
5. Press the ENT button once. You will see the following display:
6. Press the UP or DOWN button consecutively to select your desired mode.
7. Press the ENT button once to submit your selection. You will see the following 
display:
8. Press ESC button once to go back to the main menu. 
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Using AUTOCOPY
The “Autocopy” function allows you to copy from Disc to Disc automatically 
without pressing any keys. It is the simplest way to make CD/DVD copies. The 
following tutorial will show you how to use this feature.
1. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
2. Press the ENT button to enter the “Autocopy” mode. You will see the following 
display:
3. Insert your Master Disc into the top Reader Tray and your blank discs into 
corresponding Writer Trays. Close the trays after you load the discs. (You can 
automatically close all trays by pressing ENT when the display shows “Waiting 
for Blanks”.)
4. Allow 5-10 seconds for the duplicator to detect your Master Disc and Blank 
Discs. After all the discs are recognized, you will see the following display:
5. After 2 or 3 seconds of processing time, the following Copy Progress Screen 
will appear.
“4012MB” indicates the capacity of the Master Disc.
“481MB” indicates the current progress of the duplication in terms of MB
“12%” indicates the current progress of the duplication.
“0” indicates that you have made 0 copies so far.
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Using AUTOCOPY - continued 
Note: It is normal to see the progress indicator stays at 0-10% and 
100% for approximately 30 seconds for CD duplication and up to 
1 minute for DVD duplication. That is caused by the initializing and 
finalizing stage.
6. Once the duplication run is completed, the successful copies will be ejected. 
You will see the following display:
Next, refill your blank Discs to continue making more copies. If you wish to 
copy a new Master Disc, remove the old master and load the new Master Disc 
prior to loading any new blank discs into the Writer Trays.
Note: Failed discs will not be ejected automatically. You will need to 
manually eject these. Throw away any failed CD-R (write once) discs.
“PASS 7” indicates that you’ve just made 7 successful copies.
“FAIL 0” indicates that you have no failure in this run.
“7” indicates that you’ve successfully copied 7 copies so far.
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Menu Overview
Menu Overview
1. Copy
This menu will guide you to make DVD/CD copies. Before you enter this menu 
to copy, please make sure you have selected the correct Source drive. 
2. Print
This menu will guide you to burn LightScribe labels.  Before you enter this 
menu to print, please make sure you have selected the correct Source drive.
3. Copy + Print
This menu will guide you to make DVD/CD copies and burn LightScribe 
labels.  When the DVD/CD copies are finished, flip the discs over in the 
recorders and the menu will guide you to select a label and initiate the printing 
function.  Before you enter this menu copy and print, please make sure you 
have selected the correct Source drive.
4. Test
This menu will guide you to make simulation of copying process. During this 
simulation process, all write once recordable discs such as (DVD-R, CD-R) 
will be reusable. The purpose of performing such simulation is to ensure error 
free duplication.
Warning: Due to the physical limitation of DVD+R/RW, you can not 
perform this procedure if your recordable discs are DVD+R/RW  
recordable format. If you do so, you will encounter failure messages.
Warning: If you are using CD-RW/DVD-RW discs as your blanks 
media during the simulation, all of the content inside those discs will 
be erased permanently.
5. Compare
This menu will guide you to perform a bit-by-bit comparison between the 
Master Reading Source and all the copied discs inside the Writer Tray. The 
purpose of the Compare function is to ensure that all of your copies have 
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6. Test + Copy
This menu will guide you to perform a simulation of the copying process. If 
everything passes the simulation, the copying process will be performed. If 
there’s an error encountered during the simulation, an error message will be 
displayed and the copying process will not be initiated.
7. Copy + Compare
This menu will guide you to make copies and automatically perform a bit-by-
bit comparison between the Master Reading Source and all the copied discs 
inside the Writer Tray.
8. Select Burn Speed
This menu will guide you to adjust the duplication speed in various duplication 
modes. 
9. Select Source
This menu will guide you to set the Master Reading Source. 
10. Erase
This menu will guide you to erase your rewriteable discs in the Writer Tray. 
There are two options to erase your rewriteable discs:
a. Full Erase: It will erase the entire disc which will make it impossible to be 
recovered.
b. Quick Erase: It will erase the index of the rewriteable disc, not the data 
section.
3. Hard Drive Setup
This menu will guide you to perform various Hard Drive related operations 
such as Loading, Renaming, or Deleting your images. 
4. Print Setup
This menu has the utilities for setting up a print job and managing labels.
 ▪Load Label
 ▪Rename Label
 ▪Delete Label
 ▪Print Surface Info
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13. Mix Audio Tracks
This menu will guide you through the “Mix Audio Tracks” feature. This feature 
helps you combine audio tracks from various CDs into a single customize audio 
CD. 
14. Setup
14.1 Language
This setting allows you to choose which language you prefer to navigate 
this duplicator. Current supported languages are Spanish, and English.
14.2 Auto Start
This setting allows you to choose Auto, Full or Off.
When full is selected this feature will allow the duplicator to copy 
automatically once your Master Disc and all of the Writer Trays of the 
duplicator are filled with recordable media.
When it is Off, the copy process requires you to press ENT button to 
confirm the duplication.
If , for example, your duplicator has detected 3 blank discs on a 4 target 
or higher duplicator and doesn’t detect any additional blank discs for 30 
seconds, the duplication will be started automatically.
In order for this feature to take effect, you need to be inside the operation 
menu such as COPY, TEST, TEST+COPY, COPY+COMPARE, etc.
14.3 Read Error Skip
Normally, when the duplicator encounters a reading error while reading 
your Master Disc, all the duplication will be aborted and all the recordable 
media will be ruined. However, if you believe that your Master Disc has 
a small, insignificant error due to physical damages, you can enable the 
setting to allow the duplicator to skip any read error* it has encountered.
*This function will not fix the error; it will only skip it to make the rest of 
the data readable.