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by numpad0 28 days ago
...no? It does both.

Load fresh discs from magazine, put onto an internal disc drive, let a connected PC burn it, take out, print on it, and move it to a burned disc holder. All in one box. The networked model does it over LAN like a laser printer.
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StilesCrisis 28 days ago
Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely.

https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1...

"Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"

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numpad0 27 days ago
oof. looks like I linked to a special printing only variant out of dozen or so models. My apologies...
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StilesCrisis 27 days ago
All the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but all the ones I've worked with are designed around mass replication of one individual ISO.
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numpad0 27 days ago
Looks like target market of this type of duplicators is hospitals using it for exchanging medical images, where optical discs are still very common as disposable storage medium. I'm sure they don't print hundreds of identical chest X-ray images... This one really isn't bunch of DVD drives wired in parallel to a no-name ASIC, it's one drive stuffed in a microwave enclosure along with a robot to change out discs for it.
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