Your music group has just finished your test CD and you have to send it off to be duplicated for distribution. For some reason you get put in charge of taking care of CD duplication. Going into the DVD and CD duplication e-commerce website, you are inundated with mysterious terminologies you don’t recognize. Two of those terminologies in particular show to you, short run CD duplication and long run CD replication. What is the difference between short run and long run CD duplication? This article’s purpose is to decode these terms for you to make your job simpler.
Short Run Duplication
Short run CD duplication pertains to the procedure in which DVDs and CDs are duplicated in quantities usually not going above five hundred units. Duplication is employed CD-R technologies, properly “burning” CD’s and not producing them from the start. Now there are few disadvantages that come along with the duplication procedure, yet there are advantages as well. The advantages are faster turnaround time, and more affordable project expenses. While the main disadvantages of DVD and CD duplication is that copied discs do not always work in every CD player, especially older version of players.
Long Run Replication
Long run CD replication is the process in which CDs and DVDs are made in quantities exceeding five hundred units. The gap between replication and duplication is that in the replication approach the DVDs or CDs are coated with reflective material, stamped, and molded with the information. This gap results in DVDs and CDs that are less expensive per product and are 100% suitable in playback devices. The primary disadvantage of the long run DVD and CD replication is the creation time which usually averages around two weeks.
With this article, I believe that your visit into the world of CD production would be easier to recognize and complete.
About the author:
JV White is a technical writer for WePrintDiscs.com – a company provides CD DVD duplication and printing services.
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