A reminder out there to all of you getting ready to submit CD duplication and replication jobs. Make sure you send the master disc on the same media as you’re intending for the final product. In other words, send your master disc as a CD for CD replication jobs. Some folks in a rush, grab a DVDR to burn the info to, and although it works fine to save files and programs there because there’s so much storage space, we can’t use it to master from.
Production and mastering need “apples to apples”. When making CDs with CDR (Recordable CDs), the recording drives for CDR will only accept and use the same type media. The source to be read, and the target to have the info recorded to have to match. When mastering for CD-ROM, we make a physical mold of the disc, so if you are making CDs, we need to start from a CD!
When you send out a DVD master for a CD replication job, we’ll need to ask you to resend it again on CD and that will eat up time from your production schedule.
Stay on course and make sure for your CDR and CD-ROM duplication and replication jobs to send us a CD master!
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