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With the cost of CD duplication equipment falling over the past few years, it has now become an affordable reality for even small businesses. For around a few thousand dollars you can buy your own semi-professional CD duplication and printing equipment. If you only need to do small runs of 10 to 50 then this equipment is more than adequate. That’s all well and good unless you are facing an emergency mail out consisting of 1000 CDs by tomorrow. What do you do then? Or what if your customer expects you to exactly reproduce their brand colors? Ink jet print can’t usually handle that. It is times like these that call for you to outsource the job and hire a professional CD duplication company. High capacity duplication companies usually gain from large volume because of the economics of scale, so it probably won’t set you back much more, if at all, to hire someone than if you did the job yourself. Because these facilities can usually offer a 24-48 hour turnaround on a job and reproduce professional quality prints, there is a big upside to using them. There are plenty of these companies available, so why not utilize them? Just like so many other industries, a large number of these companies advertise online. You can benefit from the fierce competition found on the internet in the form of very cheap deals. Because companies that offer low rates are probably reducing costs elsewhere, it is a good idea to request an example of their work. This will test their customer service as well as provide you with a sample of the quality of their work. The duplication facility will need you to provide a template containing the artwork. Most suppliers place available downloads on their websites. Be sure to submit the any desired fonts, converted into outlines if possible. High resolution PDF or EPS are the preferred file formats. If this is too confusing, the professional CD duplication company’s artwork department can often guide you through the process for an additional reproduction charge. CD duplication companies are there to reproduce discs and prints, not to double check what you send them. They assume that you have already checked the master copy and are ready for the duplication phase. One common mistake is that a data CD of WAV or MP3 files is sent when an audio CD is to be duplicated. Another frequent error is sending Quicktime or WMV files in lieu of DVD video discs. Assume that you what you send the facility is what you will receive in duplication.