Aleratec 13 DVD CD LightScribe Duplicator SA User Guide

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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
Next, refill more blank media to continue making more copies, or you can press 
ESC to terminate your project and go back to the main menu.
If you’ve specified a counter value for your project and your project is 
completed, you will see the following screen:
If you see above message, you can press ENT to go back to main menu.
Note: If you enabled the counter and the number of discs you...

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Select Burn Speed
This process will allow you to adjust the duplication speed subject to your various 
needs.
By default, the duplication speed will be set to the optimal speed. However, 
under some circumstances, you might want to lower the duplication speed.  Those 
circumstances are as follows:
• Poor Blank Media Quality – When your media quality is not good, lowering 
down the duplication speed is necessary to make good copies.
•...

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Select Burn Speed - continued 
3. Select duplication speed type.
There are different types of recording speeds:
 ▪HDD/CD to CD: Copying to CD-R/RW Media from Pre-loaded CD 
Partition or Original CD Media.
 ▪HDD/DVD to DVD: Copying to DVD±R Media from Pre loaded DVD 
Partition or Original DVD Media.
 ▪HDD/DVD-DL to DVD-DL: Copying to Double/Dual Layer Recordable 
DVD Media from Pre-loaded DVD-DL Partition or Original Double/Dual 
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Select the Source Drive
When making a copy, you will need to specify where the master is. Is it in the ROM 
drive? Or is it an Image inside the Hard Drive? This tutorial will show you how to 
change the Master Reading Source to satisfy your needs.
Basically, there are 3 scenarios that require you to select the Source drive.
1. Disc-to-Disc copy (Copy from 1st Tray) – This is the case when you would 
normally make copies on the fly. You...

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Select the Source Drive - continued 
b. Enter “Source Selection” menu.
Press ENT to enter into “Source Selection” menu.
You will see the following display:
c. Select desired master reading device.
Press the UP or DOWN button to select the desired master reading source. 
Then press ENT to submit your Source Selection.
d. Once your selection has been changed successfully, you will see the 
following screen for 2 seconds:
Then you will be...

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Change the SETUP Settings
Most of the internal settings and information are stored inside the “Setup” menu. To 
explore and modify these settings is simple. In the following example you will be 
modifying the “Auto Start” setting. 
Note: The default “Setup” is set for optimal performance. It is unnecessary 
to change this setting if you are satisfied with your duplicator performance.
1. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the...

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Audio CD Editing
This procedure will guide you in using the “Mix Audio Tracks” feature. This process 
allows you to combine audio tracks from various CDs into a single customized 
audio CD.
To use this feature you need a temporary storage location to hold your music before 
the duplicator can make it an audio CD. The following are temporary storage 
location choices:
• Hard Drive:
Choosing “Hard Drive” as the temporary storage location,...

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4. Once you made your selection, you will see the following display:
OR
When you see the above display, insert an audio CD that contains your music 
track(s) in the Master Reading Tray and a blank CD-R media into one of Writer 
Trays.
Note: If either one of the above screens is shown for more than 2 
minutes, please check your Master Disc or Blank Discs for quality.
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Audio CD Editing - continued 
6. Press ENT button to submit your selection. You will see the following display:
Warning: If the capacity of total audio tracks you have selected is 
more than your blank CD-R disc’s capacity, you will see the following 
two screens flashing:
If you see the above messages, press ENT button to continue.
Once the Copying process is complete, you will see the following display:
7. You now have the choice to...

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8. Press ENT button to continue. Your old Master Disc will be ejected and you can 
insert another audio CD into the Reading Tray. To continue, go back to Step 3.
9. If you choose to finalize it, press the DOWN arrow button until you see the 
following display:
Press the ENT button to continue. You will see following confirmation display:
Press the ENT	button again to confirm the finalization. During the finalization 
process, you will...