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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
Next, refill more blank media to continue making more copies, or you can press 
ESC to terminate your project and go back to the main menu.
If you’ve specified a counter value for your project and your project is 
completed, you will see the following screen:
If you see above message, you can press ENT to go back to main menu.
Note: If you enabled the counter and the number of discs you have 
inserted is more than what you requested, you will receive a message 
regarding you have inserted more discs than what you need. You can 
continue to copy or you can eject the extras.
Note: Failed discs will not be ejected automatically. You will need to 
manually eject these. Throw away any failed write-once discs.
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Select Burn Speed
This process will allow you to adjust the duplication speed subject to your various 
needs.
By default, the duplication speed will be set to the optimal speed. However, 
under some circumstances, you might want to lower the duplication speed.  Those 
circumstances are as follows:
• Poor Blank Media Quality – When your media quality is not good, lowering 
down the duplication speed is necessary to make good copies.
• Poor Master Disc Quality – If your Master Disc condition is not good, lowering 
down the duplication speed will reduce the failure rates greatly.
• Duplication Quality – Overall, the lower the speed, the higher the quality of 
your duplicates. If you have time, it is a good choice to lower down the speed to 
produce the best quality duplicates.
Turn on your duplicator. After it has finished booting up, you will see the following 
display.
1. Navigate to the “Speed Selection” menu.
Press UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
2. Enter the “Speed Selection” menu.
Press ENT button to enter into “Speed Selection” menu. You will see the 
following display:
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DUPLICATOR 1.001. COPY
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DUPLICATOR 1.008. Select Burn Speed
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Select Burn Speed - continued 
3. Select duplication speed type.
There are different types of recording speeds:
 ▪HDD/CD to CD: Copying to CD-R/RW Media from Pre-loaded CD 
Partition or Original CD Media.
 ▪HDD/DVD to DVD: Copying to DVD±R Media from Pre loaded DVD 
Partition or Original DVD Media.
 ▪HDD/DVD-DL to DVD-DL: Copying to Double/Dual Layer Recordable 
DVD Media from Pre-loaded DVD-DL Partition or Original Double/Dual 
Layer DVD Media.
To select the recording speed types, you need to press UP or DOWN button to 
adjust and press ENT button to submit your selection.
4. Select desired duplication speed.
Once you have submitted the duplication speed type, you will see the following 
display:
Press UP or DOWN button to select the desired speed and then press ENT to 
submit your speed selection.
5. Once your selection has been changed successfully, you will see the following 
screen for 2 seconds.
Then you will be directed back to the main menu:
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DVD to DVD Speed:6x
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DVD to DVD Speed:Adjusted to 4x
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Select the Source Drive
When making a copy, you will need to specify where the master is. Is it in the ROM 
drive? Or is it an Image inside the Hard Drive? This tutorial will show you how to 
change the Master Reading Source to satisfy your needs.
Basically, there are 3 scenarios that require you to select the Source drive.
1. Disc-to-Disc copy (Copy from 1st Tray) – This is the case when you would 
normally make copies on the fly. You need to set the “ROM drive” as your 
Master Reading Source.
2. Hard Drive-to-Disc copy – If you want to make copies from your Hard Drive 
Image, you need to select the source as “Hard Drive”.
There are three benefits to copy from Hard Drive:
a. Performance – Duplicating form the Hard Drive will be able to boost 
duplication speeds.
b. Stability – Duplicating from Hard Drive will stabilize the duplication 
process compared to the Disc to Disc duplicating.
c. Convenience – With your Master Discs stored inside the Hard Drive, you 
can have access to each one easily. There is no need to carry your Master 
Discs; they are all stored inside the duplicator.
3. Disc-to-Disc copy (Copy from 2nd Tray) – This is the case when your Master 
Disc is full of scratches. You would need to use the Writer Tray as your Source 
to make a copy and use the new copy as your new master to make more copies.
When you turn on your duplicator, after it has booted up, you should see the 
following signifying your duplicator is ready.
a. Navigate to Source Selection Menu.
Press UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
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Select the Source Drive - continued 
b. Enter “Source Selection” menu.
Press ENT to enter into “Source Selection” menu.
You will see the following display:
c. Select desired master reading device.
Press the UP or DOWN button to select the desired master reading source. 
Then press ENT to submit your Source Selection.
d. Once your selection has been changed successfully, you will see the 
following screen for 2 seconds:
Then you will be directed back to the main menu:
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Change the SETUP Settings
Most of the internal settings and information are stored inside the “Setup” menu. To 
explore and modify these settings is simple. In the following example you will be 
modifying the “Auto Start” setting. 
Note: The default “Setup” is set for optimal performance. It is unnecessary 
to change this setting if you are satisfied with your duplicator performance.
1. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
2. Press ENT to enter “Setup” menu. You will see the following display:
3. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
4. Press ENT to enter “Auto Start Setting” menu. You will see the following display:
5. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to modify the setting to “Full”. Press ENT to 
submit your selection. You will see the following display:
6. To modify more settings, go back to step 3. Otherwise, press ESC button to go 
back to main menu.
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Audio CD Editing
This procedure will guide you in using the “Mix Audio Tracks” feature. This process 
allows you to combine audio tracks from various CDs into a single customized 
audio CD.
To use this feature you need a temporary storage location to hold your music before 
the duplicator can make it an audio CD. The following are temporary storage 
location choices:
• Hard Drive:
Choosing “Hard Drive” as the temporary storage location, you will be instructed 
to load your music files onto the Hard Drive. After all of your favorite songs are 
selected, you will be instructed to copy them onto a blank 80 min. CD-R media.
• Blank CD-R Media:
Choosing “Blank CD-R” as the temporary storage location, you will be 
instructed to copy your music files onto a blank CD-R you’ve inserted. After you 
are finished, you will be instructed to finalize the CD-R disc.
1. Turn on the duplicator. After the bootup is complete, you will see the following 
display:
2. Going to the “Mix Audio Tracks” menu. Press the UP or DOWN arrow button 
to navigate to the following screen.
3. If your duplicator does not have a Hard Drive installed, please skip to Step 4. 
If your duplicator does have a Hard Drive installed, you will see the following 
display:
Press the UP or DOWN arrow button to select your temporary storage location. 
(Hard Drive or Blank CD-R Media)
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4. Once you made your selection, you will see the following display:
OR
When you see the above display, insert an audio CD that contains your music 
track(s) in the Master Reading Tray and a blank CD-R media into one of Writer 
Trays.
Note: If either one of the above screens is shown for more than 2 
minutes, please check your Master Disc or Blank Discs for quality.
Please allow 5-10 seconds for the duplicator to detect your Master Disc and 
Blank Discs as well. After your Master Disc and Blank Discs have been 
recognized, you will see the following display:
5. Once the previous screen is displayed, press the UP or DOWN arrow button 
to display the information on each track of the audio CD. Press ENT to select 
a track to be copied. Once a track is selected, you will see “*” on the left of 
the track number on the 2nd line. You will also see the total tracks and total 
playtime you have selected. Once you have finished selecting the tracks to be 
copy, press the UP or DOWN arrow button until you see “ARE YOU DONE?”.  
You will see the following display:
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Audio CD Editing - continued 
6. Press ENT button to submit your selection. You will see the following display:
Warning: If the capacity of total audio tracks you have selected is 
more than your blank CD-R disc’s capacity, you will see the following 
two screens flashing:
If you see the above messages, press ENT button to continue.
Once the Copying process is complete, you will see the following display:
7. You now have the choice to finalize it (mark the completion) or insert another 
audio CD with additional music files.
If you choose to insert another audio CD with additional music files, press the 
DOWN arrow button until you see the following display:
“1” indicates that it is working on track #1. “4m:37s” indicates the track’s playback time..
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8. Press ENT button to continue. Your old Master Disc will be ejected and you can 
insert another audio CD into the Reading Tray. To continue, go back to Step 3.
9. If you choose to finalize it, press the DOWN arrow button until you see the 
following display:
Press the ENT button to continue. You will see following confirmation display:
Press the ENT	button again to confirm the finalization. During the finalization 
process, you will see following progress indicator:
OR
When the whole process completes, your mixed copy will be ejected and you 
will see the following display:
You will then be directed back to the main menu:
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