Aleratec 18 Bluray DVD CD Tower Duplicator SA User Guide
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www.aleratec.com25 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials Delete Existing Hard Drive Partition Permanently - continued 7. You will be directed back to the “Hard Drive Setup” menu. You will see the following display: Hard Drive Setup4. Delete Partition
www.aleratec.com26 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials Choose Hard Drive Partition Display Order You can choose the order in which the controller shows your hard drive partitions: 1. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen. 2. Press ENT to enter “Hard Drive 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 the “Display Order” menu. You will see the following display: Aleratec 1.009. Hard Drive Setup Hard Drive Setup1. Select Partition Hard Drive Setup8. Display Order Choose Order:Default
www.aleratec.com27 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Chose Order:Default, OK? Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials Choose Hard Drive Partition Display Order - continued 5. Press the UP or DOWN button consecutively to select your desired order. 6. Press the ENT button once to submit your partition order selection. You will see the following display: 7. You will be directed back to the “Hard Drive Setup” menu. You will see the following display: Hard Drive Setup8. Display Order COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Choose Order:Default “Default” shows your partitions in the order in which you added them. COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Choose Order:Alpha – [ASC] COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Choose Order:Alpha – [DEC] “Alpha – [ASC]” shows your partitions in ascending alphabetical order. “Alpha – [DEC]” shows your partitions in descending alphabetical order.
www.aleratec.com28 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive 1. Load a master disc to the HDD if it is not already loaded and make sure Source is set to the Hard Drive. 2. Go back to “COPY” Menu. a. Use UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen. 3. Start the Copy Process. a. Now, please insert your blank discs into the Writer Trays (make sure the Reader Tray is empty) and press ENT button to enter the “COPY” menu. You will be asked to choose which hard drive partition to copy from: b. Choose the desired partition to copy from and press ENT button to submit your selection. Then you will see the following Counter Selection Menu: c. The Counter Selection Menu will let you to choose how many copies you want to make for your project. This Counter Selection feature will allow the duplicator to count the number of copies you’ve made and prompt you when the desired number of copies has been made. Aleratec 1.001.0 COPY Choose Partition:[FUN ] DVD 4000MB Counter:No Counter
www.aleratec.com29 Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued You can select “No Counter” if you prefer to copy continuously with no interruption. (It will still count the number of copies, but it will not notify you when to stop.) To select the “No Counter”, simply press ENT button when you see the screen above. Then skip below and continue on to step “d”. Or, you can select “Specify Counter” to specify the number of copies (1 to 9999) by pressing the UP or DOWN navigation button to the below screen: Then please press ENT button to submit. You will see the screen below: To specify the number of copies for your project, you need to enter/input a 4-digit number. If you are planning to specify a number that is less than 4 digits, please fill the leading spaces with “0”s (any leading “0” will be skipped). An example of that 4-digit number could be “0234” (Two hundred and thirty four), or “0010” (ten). Remember, the beginning “0”s are skipped, therefore “0010” means “10”, which is the number 10. To enter the number, you need to use UP or DOWN button to select the number for each digit and use ENT or ESC button to move the cursor position right or left, once you’ve finished, move the cursor to OK and press ENT. For example, if I want to specify a counter value of 21 (twenty one). The 4-digit value would be “0021”. To input the desired quantity, please do the following: Make sure the cursor is located at the first position: i. Press DOWN button consecutively until “0” is displayed. ii. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position. iii. Press DOWN button consecutively until “0” is displayed. iv. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position. v. Press DOWN button consecutively until “2” is displayed. vi. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position. COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Counter:Specify Counter Specify Counter:[0 ] OK? Specify Counter:[X ] OK?
www.aleratec.com30 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials vii. Press DOWN button consecutively until “1” is displayed. viii. Now, we have “0021” displayed and then, press ENT once and the cursor is now moved to OK. ix. Then, press ENT once to submit your counter value. Now you will see following screen: Note: If the ABOVE screen is displayed for more than 2 minutes, please check your Blank Discs for quality. d. Please allow 5-10 seconds for the duplicator to detect your Hard Drive partition and Blank Discs as well. After your Hard Drive partition and Blank Discs have been recognized, then you will see the following screen: Note: By default, the “Auto Start” setting is set to “Auto”. For example, if your duplicator has detected 3 blank discs and didn’t detect any additional blank discs for 30 seconds, then the duplication will be started automatically. Note: Once the number of blank discs you inserted matches the number of discs detected on the screen. Then press ENT (if you are not using Auto Start or wish to speed up the process) to confirm and the following Processing screen will appear. The “3” indicates there are 3 discs that were recognized by the recording tray. Actual quantity may be differentdepending on your machine. Preparing...Waiting for Blanks Preparing...3 Disc Detected, Go? Processing... Please Wait
www.aleratec.com31 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued Note: If the number of blank discs you inserted doesn’t match the number of discs detected on the screen, please give 10-15 seconds for the duplicator to recognize all of your blank discs. e. After 2 or 3 seconds of processing time, the following Copy Progress Screen will appear. Note: It is normal to see the progress indicator stay at 0-10% and at 100% for approximately 30 seconds during CD duplication. Additionally it is normal to see the progress indicator stay at 0-10% and at 100% for up to 1 minute during DVD duplication. There is a delay caused by the initializing and finalizing stage of disc duplication. Due to this delay, it is normal to see progress indicators stay at 100% for up to several minutes before moving on. Once the disc duplication is completed, successful copies will be ejected and you will see the following display: COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCECOPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE “PASS 3” indicates that you’ve just made 3 successful copies. “FAIL 0” indicates that you have no failure in this run. “3” indicates that you’ve successfully copied 3 copies so far. Counter SpecifiedNo Counter “4012MB” indicates the capacity of the Master Disc. “481MB” indicates the current MB from the Master Disc that has been copied. “12%” indicates the current progress of the duplication. “0/21” indicates you have a project size of 21 copies and you have made 0 copies so far. “H” indicates you are copying from a Hard Drive Image. “4012MB” indicates the capacity of the Master Disc. “481MB” indicates the current MB from the Master Disc that has been copied. “12%” indicates the current progress of the duplication. “0” indicates that you have made 0 copies so far. “H” indicates you are copying from a Hard Drive Image. Copying... H4012MB0/21 12% 481MBCopying... H4012MB 0 12% 481MB PASS 3 FAIL 0 ( 3)Waiting for Blanks
www.aleratec.com32 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials 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. 21 Disc CopiedPress OK to Finish
www.aleratec.com33 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials 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: Aleratec 1.001. COPY Aleratec 1.006. Select Burn Speed Select Burn Speed:DVD to DVD
www.aleratec.com34 COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT COPYUSBPRESCANSOURCE ESCENT Tower Duplicator SA: Tutorials 3. Select duplication speed type. There are different types of recording speeds: ▪HDD/BD to BD: Copying to Blu-ray Media from Pre-loaded BD Partition or Original BD Media. ▪HDD/CD to CD: Copying to CD-R 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. (Copying from DVD-R to DVD+R is not supported.) ▪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: DVD to DVD Speed:6x DVD to DVD Speed:Adjusted to 4x Aleratec 1.006. Select Burn Speed