A lot of People ask "what is the Difference between CD duplication and CD replication?"

CD Duplication is the Process where your master CD is loaded into a tower with a hard drive. Once the content is loaded into the hard drive, the tower is then loaded with blank CD-R's and the content is burned onto the blank CD-R's at a 16x burn speed which is the standard burn speed for the best CD duplication results. Depending on how long the master is, that determines how long it will take to burn a copy. After all of the CDs are burned the tower is reloaded and started over again until you have reached the amount of copies needed for the project. This process is just like how you would burn a CD on your home computer but at a much larger scale.
Pros:

* Much faster turn time because this can all be done in-house. Turn time depends on how many towers and how many CD's per tower your duplication company has.
* You can duplicate whatever quantity you want.
* If there is a change in your project you just need to start duplicating the new CD rather than create a whole new glass stamper.

Cons:

* It is generally more expensive to go with duplication over replication.
* CD will play in most CD players but there are a few CD drives that have trouble reading a duplicated disc.

CD Replication is a process of which a glass master or stamper is created of your original CD-R and the glass master is used to press the information or music onto the CD. In about a half of a second the content is literally pressed onto the disc. This method is called a pressed CD or the industry standard. There is not usually a quality difference; however, CD replication has a higher yield ratio or playability in more decks then a burned or a duplicated CD. The CD's you would buy in a store are always replicated. Most plants have a 1,000 CD replication minimum for them to set up a CD line to run your CD's and it is recommend that the company you use should be ISO certified and Phillips Licensed to insure the best quality in the industry. You may pay a little more for this but it is worth it in the long run to make sure the company you are using will be around for a while and not be shut down due to non-compliance with Phillips. CD replication also has a longer turn time then CD Duplication Due to the length of creating your master and the higher volume of CD's the plant produces. CD replication projects typically ship in 8- 10 business days where as with Duplication the CD's usually ship in 3-5 business days.