A CD DVD duplication service is your best bet for quickly reproducing movies, music, and data onto CDs and DVDs. It’s quick and easy as well as affordable – you can get 1,000 CDs complete with full-color printing, artwork, and packaging for about 70 cents each, or 1,000 DVDs for about $1 each!
Almost any business can benefit from CD DVD duplication services including film producers, audio engineers, software developers, direct mail marketing companies, and promotional products distributors. Depending on the quantity of discs you need, you will either have your media duplicated or replicated.
Duplication or replication?
Vendors always use high-tech equipment to copy your information onto CDs and DVDs, monitor the process, and review each copy for quality assurance, but they use two different processes to reproduce the media:
- Duplication – Uses racks of CD recorders to burn the data directly onto the surface of a recordable disc. This method is best if you need roughly 500 to 1,000 copies of your media.
- Replication – Uses a glass master of your data to embed the information onto the surface of the discs. This multi-step process involves polishing the surface to a mirror finish and then coating the discs with a special laminate to protect the data. Vendors use replication when producing thousands of copies of CDs and DVDs.
Common features
- Printing – Vendors offer silkscreen printing (text and graphics pressed through a screen onto the disc) or offset printing (for higher detailed art and photos). Most services will include some form of printing, but you may pay extra for additional colors or higher resolution.
- Packaging – These options can range from the barebones basics (discs stacked onto a spindle) to eye-catching designs (full-color artwork and inserts in a printed cardboard or sturdy plastic clamshell design).
- Assembly – Once completed, vendors can piece together your media and shrinkwrap everything for resale or distribution.
- Other services – You can also select additional features for your CD DVD duplication and replication needs such as enhanced content (E-CD), CD mastering, DVD authoring, inventory tracking, and fulfillment services.
Other terminology
“CD DVD duplication and replication services” pretty much says it all. But it can be a mouthful and vendors may choose different terminology when discussing the service.
CD reproduction or DVD reproduction encompasses the full spectrum of services that vendors offer. Likewise, you may also hear vendors refer to the service as CD DVD copying.
CD duplicators can have a two-fold meaning – it could refer to the company performing the duplication services, or the actual equipment that will reproduce the data.
