Do you duplicate CDs? What's the best duplicator?!

[ndean]

You can skip my blathering and go straight to the Question towards the bottom.

We've been using a mediatechnics fusion 248 to duplicate 40-50 CDs each week.

http://www.mediatechnics.com/pages/fusion2.htm
Stand alone unit (doesn't work with netwoks or computers) that came with 2 CD drives and a thermal printer. It's been working fine until recently it went KaPuUT!

We went and bought a discmakers elite pro 4.

http://www.discmakers.com/duplicator...ated/elite.asp
4 DVD/CD drives, integratable with network, multiple job queing, and full color inkjet printer. everything you'd ever need right? WRONG

After spending the money to upgrade to this machine I'm having some SERIOUS buyers remorse.
Here are my complants:

1. It is SLOW- the price you pay for walking away from the unit while it works is knowing you could hand load things quicker!
2. The software SUCKS!- especially the printing software
3. No Local Tech Support- in Washington my local rep misled me to believe that a tech person would make house calls... not so. you either send it in for repair, or troubleshoot over the phone with someoe in NJ
4. Colors Smudge and Run- lick you finger and you can mess up that label EASY!

What are you using to duplicate CDs?
Do you use an automated unit, or manually load discs?
What brand of duplicator? What has tech support been like?

Do you own, or have you used the Rimage 2000i?

http://www.rimage.com/products_detai...age_2000i.html

[NGRRFan]

Once you have printed the disks, you have to seal the ink or, as you found out, if they get wet the ink will run. Many people use hairspray, but there is a specific sealer sold at hobby shops that is like clear Krylon.

As for a copier, we use a Spinrite 5 cd copier tower. It doesn't do everything that yours does, but it does work.