When producing CD or DVD media, the choice of duplicating or replicating them is often confused. Duplication and replication are totally different processes and should be used accordingly for the type of target market your producing the discs for. Duplication uses a completely different method from replication for producing the final disc. It uses premade blank discs to burn your data using a CD or DVD burner. Many people have a CD or DVD burner on their PC and use it for making copies of data files, movies, etc.. To "burn" a CD or DVD, the burner uses a write laser. This laser alters the surface of the discs by bouncing light off the dark dye that is in the recordable disc. The laser writes to the disc by moving outward as the disc spins. The burn rate is determined by the spin rate of the laser and todays burners can write CDs in excess of 50x and DVDs in excess of 16x. Almost all DVD burners are dual purpose and will burn a CD or DVD disc. Discs are marked as CD-R, DVD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW. There are other varieties but the one constant in them is the R or the W. The R shows that the disc is recordable and the W shows that it is writable and can be written to numerous times. The only problem with rewritable discs is that most often they will only play in the drive that originally wrote to them. Recordable discs however will usually play on any drive they are used in. Mediatechnics has been in the duplication industry since 1988. Utilizing their own line of equipment, they are able to duplicate any size job in as short amount of time as needed.
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