Saturday, May 23, 2009

Your Small Business Can Save Money With DVD Duplicators

In this day and age, you are probably very familiar with the term 'burning' when it comes to CDs and DVDs. The process of duplicating CDs and DVDs has become the standard in homes everywhere. People download music off of the Internet and burn it onto a CD. They purchase a new movie and they burn a copy onto a DVD so that if something happens to the original, they still have a backup copy. However, DVD Duplicators are not just for the home, there are many kinds of small businesses that benefit from the process of DVD duplication. 

DVD Duplicators can be purchased in several sizes; however, they are all smaller, designed for smaller jobs, not for movie companies (which would use a DVD replication process, which is geared for producing millions of copies of a movie). These duplicators can come with your computer, like your standard DVD burner or you can purchase individual duplication machines that have the appearance of a computer tower but are designed only to duplicate DVDs. These machines vary in size from two duplication slots to 11 duplication slots. They also vary in price from the mid one hundred dollars to the high seven hundreds.

If you are in the business of copying DVDs for people who do not have the equipment or the knowhow to do it themselves, then these kinds of DVD Duplicators will be ideal. They are great for making quick copies of wedding videos, babies' births, birthday parties, etc. They are not limited to that however. If you, for example, make training videos for companies, then, again, this kind of duplicator is going to work wonderfully for you.

You are not limited to duplicating DVDs either; you can also get duo units that will duplicate CDs as well as DVDs making your business more versatile in the process. This opens the door for your to duplicate CDs for local bands who only need a hundred or so copies of their CD at a time. You are providing them with an affordable option and making money in the process. DVD Duplicators are versatile equipment that will allow you to expand.

This is because you can purchase a tower with empty slots and add to it as business grows. However, don't allow things to get out of hand, duplicators are not made to handle hundreds of thousands of DVDs like a replicator is, and you can burn them out before their time from overuse if you don't take care to use them as the manufacture suggests. If you get to the point where you are using them that much, then it is time to upgrade to some high-end replication machines.