Dwayne Reid wrote:
>>I have a requirement to make 250 to 400 DVD's from a single master.
>
> Not sure if this helps, but Nero allows burning to multiple recorders
> in a system.  Don't know what the limit is but it might be worth checking 
> out.
>
> Cheapo DVD burners (Samsung, LG, etc) are selling for about $35
> Canadian just down the road from me.  Not sure if you are getting
> those kinds of prices where you are but I could see a box with 4 or 6
> burners being not all that expensive.
>
>
> Another thought: I've seen pictures of a printer that had a robotic
> arm that moves blank discs from one pile to the burner built into the
> bottom of the printer, then moved each printed disc from the printer
> tray to the pile of finished discs, then grabbed the disc from the
> burner and moved it to the printer tray.  Give it a stack of blanks
> and walk away.
>
> Don't know the price, though.

http://www.primera.com/bravoII_disc_publisher.html

About US$3k. Ours burned/printed thousands of CDs, reasonably happy with it. 
IIRC, it takes a couple of hours to produce 50 disks (it usually runs 
unattended).

However, the only reason we decided to buy the unit, is flexibility. We 
wanted to be able to quickly update the content, and run small batches of 
custom CDs for customers. It's definitely cheaper to have large quantities 
of CDs produced by a professional shop.

I would say that Russell's best bet, is to find a company that would burn 
the CDs for him (as someone had already suggested). He'll never be able to 
justify the cost of buying the duplicator, or paying a human being to do the 
job.

Do what you're best at, and pay others to do what they're better at than 
you.

Vitaliy 

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