Overview Of Operation - Rimage Allegro 20 User Manual

Overview of Operation

Your new Allegro 20 system is an automated, precision device intended
for light-duty disc publishing. The process of duplicating and printing a CD/
DVD job on your system happens automatically for you. The following is a
complete description of that process:
1. Up to 20 blank discs may be loaded at one time into the Input Bin.
2. The system's integrated Robotic Arm will first check your CD/DVD
Recorder Drive for a disc by attempting to "pick" from the recorder. This
ensures that the CD/DVD Recorder Drive is empty. Then, the Robotic
Arm will pick a disc from the Input Bin.
3. The Recorder Tray opens automatically and the Robotic Arm places
a disc into the CD/DVD Recorder Drive. After the disc is placed in the
recorder, the Robotic Arm checks the input stack to check that two
discs were not accidentally picked.
4. The Recorder Tray then automatically shuts. If a disc does not record
properly (meaning that all or part of that disc is not recordable), the
Robotic Arm picks it out of the Recorder Tray and sends it to the Output
Bin.
5. The CD/DVD Recorder is now writing to the disc. If you were to fully
record a CD with data, audio, video or music (650 MB), recording time
is about 3 ½ minutes each. A full DVD records in about 7-15 minutes
depending on the speed of the media to which you are recording.
Most jobs don't fill the entire disc, so recording time is usually less than
this.
6. After recording, the Recorder Tray opens automatically. The Robotic
Arm will lift the disc out of the Recorder Tray. The Recorder Tray will
close, and the Printer Tray will open. The Robotic Arm will lower the
disc into the Printer Tray, and the Printer Tray will then automatically
close.
7. If publishing more than one disc, the Robotic Arm will load the CD/DVD
Recorder Drive with a blank disc from the Input Bin to start recording the
next round.
8. Once recording has started on the next round, printing will start with
the recorded disc from the previous round. This simultaneous printing
and recording greatly increases the throughput of your system.
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9. Print time varies according to which print mode has been selected (See
10. The Robotic Arm will now load the second recorded disc into the
11. The process starts over and repeats until all blank discs are gone or
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"Color Matching" on page 12). In most cases, print time takes no more
than 2 minutes. After printing the first disc, the system's Printer Tray
opens automatically. The Robotic Arm moves the finished disc to the
Output Bin.
Printer Tray for printing.
the number of discs that you have specified via software has been
copied and printed.
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