Aleratec 17 DVD CD Tower Publisher SLS Duplicator User Guide

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e. 2 or 3 seconds after copying begins the following “Copy Progress” screen 
will appear:
Note: It is normal to see the progress indicator stay at 
0-10% and at 100% for approximately 30 seconds during 
CD duplication. Additionally it is normal to see the progress 
indicator stay at 0-10% and at 100% for up to 1 minute during 
DVD duplication. This delay is caused by the initializing and 
finalizing stage...

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To continue making additional copies, remove the successfully completed copies 
from the ejected trays and replace with blank discs. To terminate your project and 
return to the main menu, press ESC. 
If you’ve specified a counter value you will see the following display when your 
project is completed:
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 blank discs you 
have...

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Make Hard Drive (HDD)-to-Disc Copies 
Copying from the Hard Drive is the best way to make copies. Overall, there are 3 
benefits to copying from the Hard Drive:
1. Performance – Duplicating from the Hard Drive will be able to boost the DVD 
duplication speed to 8x or above.
2. Stability – Duplicating from Hard Drive will stabilize the duplication process 
compared to the Disc to Disc duplicating.
3. Convenience – With your Master Discs stored...

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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive
When you turn on your duplicator, after it has booted up, you should see the 
following signifying your duplicator is ready.
1. Make sure the Source is set to the Hard Drive.
It is very important to make sure the Source is set to the Hard Drive in order to 
avoid unnecessary error messages. To check what the Source is set to, please do 
the following:
a. Use UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the...

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b. Press ENT to enter Hard Drive Setup Menu and you shall see the following:
c. Now, load your Master Disc on to the Hard Drive. To do so, use UP or 
DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
d. Press ENT to enter Load Partition Menu and you shall see the following:
e. Now, you have a choice to load your Master Disc into a new (empty) 
partition or overwrite one of the existing...

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For example, if you want to name the partition for your Master Disc as 
“FUN”. Then do the following:
Make sure the cursor is located at the first position:
i. Press DOWN button consecutively until “F” is displayed.
ii. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
iii. Press DOWN button consecutively until “U” is displayed.
iv. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
v. Press DOWN button consecutively...

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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
i. Once your Master Disc has been loaded completely, you shall see the 
following:
Then, you can press ENT button to go back to the Hard Drive Setup Menu.
3. Go back to “COPY” Menu.
a. Press ENT button to go back to the main menu. You shall see the following:
b. Use UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
4. Start the Copy Process.
a. Now, please insert your blank discs...

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You can select “No Counter” if you prefer to copy continuously with no 
interruption. (It will still count the number of copies, but it will not notify 
you when to stop.) To select the “No Counter”, simply press ENT button 
when you see the screen above. Then skip below and continue on to step 
“d”.
Or, you can select “Specify Counter” to specify the number of copies (1 to 
9999) by pressing the UP or DOWN navigation button to the below...

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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
vii. Press DOWN button consecutively until “1” is displayed.
viii. Now, we have “0021” displayed and then, press ENT once and the 
cursor is now moved to OK.
ix. Then, press ENT once to submit your counter value.
Now you shall see following screen:
Note: If the ABOVE screen is displayed for more than 2 minutes, 
please check your Blank Discs for quality.
d. Please allow 5-10 seconds for the...

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Note: If the number of blank discs you inserted doesn’t match 
the number of discs detected on the screen, please give 10-15 
seconds for the duplicator to recognize all of your blank discs.
e. After 2 or 3 seconds of processing time, the following Copy Progress 
Screen will appear.
Note: It is normal to see the progress indicator stays at 0-10% 
and 100% for approximately 30 seconds for CD duplication 
and up to 1 minute for DVD duplication....