The 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS is the first ever Publishing Tower capable of multiple simultaneous LightScribe labeling. It can simultaneously produce up to 4 DVD/CD Copies, Recordings, or Clearly Labeled Discs. This DVD/CD duplicator can copy as many DVDs and CDs as you need and with the LightScribe Disc Labeling technology built in the DVD Recorders you can laser burn custom labels in the same machine. You can even mix copying discs and burning labels at the same time which makes it perfect for one off jobs where the content and the label of each disc is different. With the powerful Label Maker software, you can create your own custom labels with text and graphics. To burn labels you simply place LightScribe certified media with the label side down in the recorder, attach the DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS to your PC and burn any label you have created. The LightScribe laser burned labels are silkscreen quality and offer superior sharpness and clarity. The DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS incorporates 16x DVD recording technology and can function as a 1:4 DVD/CD Duplicator or an external DVD/CD Recorder. Since you can duplicate 4 discs simultaneously or label 4 discs simultaneously, per disc production time is dramatically reduced rivaling the far more expensive robotic systems.

The 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS is a remarkable value. Even with the cost of LightScribe media currently about the same as a disc with a conventional printed label, the low ESP of $599 makes the 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS the lowest total cost of ownership of the disc publishing systems. As more and more media manufacturers offer LightScribe media, LightScribe media will drop substantially and the 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS will pay for itself on a savings per finished disc basis. If you use an outside duplication service, you will find that you can buy for a 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS for the cost of about 5 runs of 100 discs each at a service. And if you use a service, smaller runs are cost prohibitive, you cannot always control schedules etc.

LightScribe labels can be preprinted and added to later. For example you can print your company logo and contact information on a stock of discs. These can be personalized or customized later by simply placing them back in the LightScribe drives in the 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS, creating your custom label addition in the Label Maker and printing the addition to the label. This saves time when you are assembling personalized mailing etc.

More and more business, government and education offices, audio and video professionals, software and game developers, graphic artists, churches and other private organizations, and individual video enthusiasts are looking for a cost effective means to duplicate and publish DVDs and CDs for customers, clients, employees, students, organization members, etc. The need to duplicate and publish both DVDs and CDs in your office, where you have total control of the schedules, quantity and content has been growing since the first Optical Technology Recorders came on the scene.

In most office environments burning a DVD or CD has become commonplace. Just as commonplace is the need to make copies of these DVDs and CDs with custom labels. The usual practice has been to mark your original discs or copies with a disc marking pen or stick on a unprofessional paper label prepared on another machine. A marker can be a fast label solution but it's messy and, depending on your handwriting, more or less illegible. Adhesive labels are a hassle. Even with a special device to apply them, they don't always end up as smooth and even as you would like. With an inkjet printer, you have the expense of ink cartridges to think about. What is needed is quick, easy and cost effective desktop solution that can record discs and make copies with professional labels.

The equipment available to copy discs and label them has required making a substantial investment in a machine that is, only by a stretch of the imagination, “desktop” (even though some of them are called that). More than one person is required to move some of these machines so to get copies you have to go to the machine rather than having the machine at your desk where the work is.

The cost and size of these machines is only the tip of the iceberg. The cost of the consumables required to keep them running is formidable. Most of these duplicators require proprietary supplies, especially expensive ink cartridges or ribbon, in some cases even the recording media. When your duplicator can only use supplies available from the manufacturer of the duplicator itself , prices will always soar to premium levels.

Duplicating a few DVDs and CDs with an attractive, professional looking, custom label at your desk, without cumbersome and expensive equipment and supplies has been a fantasy until the 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS. The 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS combines the latest hardware and software technology so you can simply load our software suite and attach the DVD/CD Tower Publisher to your PC to start making copies or recordings and labeling them in the same machine. LightScribe labels are precise, expressive, and easy to make. Once you've burned your first LightScribe label and experienced the amazing result, you'll never want to use a permanent marker or sticky label again. LightScribe makes it easy. It truly is a revolution in disc labeling.

The built in LightScribe-enabled DVD/CD recorders have a special lasers that pump light energy into a thin dye coating on the label side of a LightScribe disc. The light from the laser causes a chemical change in the dye coating that shows up as a visible point on the disc. With laser precision, LightScribe delivers closely controlled light energy to multiple points on the disc as it spins in the drive. The result is a high-resolution reproduction of the artwork, text, or photos you composed in the software application. Seeing is believing!

Using the Label Maker software available only from Aleratec, you can create and burn labels on up to 4 discs simultaneously. Just click on LightScribe Label icon and go to the CD template work area. Now you do your creative design work-imported pictures, copy, and artwork. When you are satisfied with what you have done, click "print." It really is that simple! No ink, no messy markers or adhesive labels . just an amazingly beautiful label right before your eyes. When you need several copies, you can follow the same process labeling as many discs as you need and then duplicating the audio, video or data on the other side of the disc (or vice versa).

The 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS with revolutionary LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling technology is the production DVD/CD Disc Publisher our Prosumer Users have been waiting for. The days of markers and adhesive labels are over. Now there's LightScribe-the only method available to burn elegant, laser-etched CD and DVD labels right at your desk.

The 1:4 DVD/CD Tower Publisher LS for businesses and individuals:

The applications are limitless, everything from the distribution of business videos, graphics, multimedia files, music productions, to making copies of your home video creations for the family .

Video and Audio Professionals can control their careers by issuing their pre-release DVDs, making demo copies and custom distributions for studios, all without having to rely on outside services to copy their DVDs.

Business, Government, and Education users can create multiple redundant copies of backup data and archive documents, to store safely offsite as recommended by industry experts. Workgroups can distribute large files or videos to other departments. Companies can make copies of training programs and much more.

Software Developers and Game Producers can make copies for beta testing and short run distribution to potential customers. With the DVD/CD Auto Copy Cruiser or Auto Publisher it is easy to make multiple copies of each version.

Graphic Artists can make multiple copies of large image files for review, archiving and distribution to clients and service bureaus.