Alera Technologies 260108 1:3 40x CD Copy Tower

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Summary: Great CD Duplicator
Review: More and more business, government and education offices, musicians, record publishers, audio and video professionals, software and game developers, graphic artists, churches and other private organizations, are looking for a cost effective means to duplicate CDs to distribute to customers, clients, employees, students, organization members, etc. The need to duplicate CDs in your own office, where you have total control of the schedules, quantity and content has been growing since the first CD-Recorders came on the scene. Until now, the necessary equipment has been cumbersome, hard to operate, and very expensive.

Alera Technologies, the leader in desktop optical disc duplicator technology, has established a reputation with its 1:1 duplicators as being the company that offers duplicators with the performance and features required by professionals, at consumer prices. Applying our experience, with an in-depth understanding of the needs of the professional user, Alera Technologies has developed the CD Copy Tower family of CD Duplicators with the speed and control features needed in a professional environment. .

The CD Copy Tower CD Duplicators incorporate 40x Alera Technologies CD recording and duplicating technology. CD Copy Towers are the professional, yet simple, solution for creating volumes of CD copies quickly and easily; For example, the 1:3 Copy Tower 40 can make multiple copies of a typical CDs typically less than 3 minutes (up to 3 copies with the 1:3). The actual time to copy the information a source CD to CD-R blank discs, start to finish, will vary due to the quality of the discs being used, write process initialization tests by the duplicator controller, writing lead in/lead out information, etc.

CD Copy Tower stand-alone CD duplicators do not require a computer for any of their duplicating or editing functions. Since CD Copy Tower 's do not require connection to a PC they do not interfere with valuable workstation activity. There is no additional hardware or software required to make copies, no set up other than plugging one in and turning on the power. There is no software to load and no need to attach extra cables, etc. to your computer. You can make as many quick copies as you need. CD Copy Tower 's are very compact units that take up little desktop space and can be easily moved

With the ease of operation of the CD Copy Tower , there is no concern as to who can operate the machine, what skill level the operator possesses, or how much training will be needed. No special computer, multimedia or mastering experience is needed to make copies. For the normal copy job, you simply load the CD to be copied in the CD-ROM drive, load the a blank CD in the CD-Recorder, Select Copy, Select the copy speed and in a few minutes you have an exact copy of your source CD

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Summary: 1:3 CD Copy Tower 40 Powerful Control Features
Review: The 1:3 CD Copy Tower 40 has an array of powerful control features:

Copy - Immediately copy source disc Test - Test the copy process before copying starts without burning a CD Test and Copy - Test before copy process starts and then start copy process automatically Verify - Verify that the copies can be read in a CD-ROM Compare - Compares of copies to the source CD after the copy process Prescan - Tests the source CD integrity and reading speed Disc Info - Shows track information on the source CD. With this powerful feature you can analyze disc, session and track sizes in time and MB to aid you in managing the duplication process. Select Source - You have the control to select either CD-ROM or CD-RW as the source drive Edit Track - You can select Audio Tracks from several source CDs to make a custom compilations giving you the control to distribute only the audio needed. Quick Erase Disc This function is used for quickly erasing CD-RW discs. Note that the Quick Erase Disc simply deletes the directory track, rather than deleting all the data from the disc (contrast this with Full Erase Disc). Full Erase Disc This function is similar to the [Quick Erase Disc], except it removes all the data from the CD-RW disc. Setup - In the setup mode you can select Read Speed, Write Speed, Auto Verify, Auto Compare, Auto Prescan, Disc Eject sequence, Button sound, and much more

With the 1:3 CD Copy Tower 40 for businesses and individuals:
· Your in-house policies, procedures, directories, manuals, etc. are probably on disc. With a CD Copy Tower you can make backups for safe keeping and make CD copies for all employees and branch offices providing tamper-proof reference without taking up valuable primary storage space on your workstations or network.
· You can put all of your technical manuals and product instructions on CDs to be included with each product purchased increasing value and utility to your customers while eliminating the expense, bulk and weight of paper manuals.
· You can distribute beta test versions of your latest software developments and bug fixes on CD and distribute discs to testers and customers using your product.
· You can make extra copies of important information for traveling employees or have available when working at home or to have access to your data on anyone's computer at any time.
· You can make copies of original software covered by a multiple license agreement and use them to install the software on different machines at different times.
· You can make copies of large work-in-process files to send to other team members working on the same project without consuming valuable network bandwidth.
· Make copies of presentations or audio/video productions for customers, clients, or group members.
· And you can make as many custom music CDs as you want.

Musicians, Record Publishers, and Audio Professionals can control their careers by issuing their pre-release albums to record companies, making demo copies and custom distributions for radio stations and studios, all without having to rely on outside services to copy their CDs.

Business, Government, and Education users can create multiple redundant copies of backup data and archive documents, to store safely offsite as recommended by industry experts. Workgroups can distribute large files to other departments. Companies can make copies of training programs and much more.

Software Developers and Game Producers can make copies for beta testing and short run distribution to potential customers. With the CD Copy Tower it is easy to make multiple copies of each version.

Graphic Artists can make multiple copies of large image files for review, archiving and distribution to clients and service bureaus.

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Summary: Previous Reviews are Bogus
Review: The previous two reviews are so obviously bogus--written by person or persons with a vested interested in the product.

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