Talon Pro User manual

Talon Pro Duplicator
User Guide

Copyright 2003, Talon Inc.
The Talon Pro CD Duplicator is used only for copying
personal data and audio tracks. Violation of the International
Copyright Laws is a criminal charge. The Talon Pro CD
Duplicator is intended to be used only in legal copying
situations. Talon, Inc. is not responsible for the illegal use or
any damage in connection with the use or performance of
this system.

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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................1
INTRODUCING THE TALON PRO ............................................................................................................1
FEATURES............................................................................................................................................1
SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS ( 7 DRIVE TOWER )........................................................................................1
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS .............................................................................................................2
WARRANTY INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................2
TECHNICAL SUPPORT...........................................................................................................................2
CHAPTER 2 GETTING STARTED................................................................................................3
TURNING ON THE SYSTEM....................................................................................................................3
ABOUT THE LCD PANEL DISPLAY........................................................................................................3
FOR BEST PERFORMANCE ....................................................................................................................3
COPY AN AUDIO CD NOW!..................................................................................................................3
MAKE MULTIPLE COPIES AT ONCE FROM A MASTER CD......................................................................7
COPYING DATA CDS..........................................................................................................................15
OVERVIEW OF THE MENU OPTIONS ....................................................................................................19
OPERATION STATUS DETAILS.............................................................................................................20
Copy..............................................................................................................................................20
Copy and Compare........................................................................................................................21
Emulate .........................................................................................................................................22
Compare........................................................................................................................................22
Verify.............................................................................................................................................22
External.........................................................................................................................................22
SUB-FUNCTION DETAILS....................................................................................................................23
Setup..............................................................................................................................................24
Show Drives...................................................................................................................................24
Start Writers..................................................................................................................................25
Write Method.................................................................................................................................25
Write Speed....................................................................................................................................26
CDROM Drive...............................................................................................................................26
Autoloader.....................................................................................................................................27
Load Non-blank disc......................................................................................................................27
CD DA Load Speed........................................................................................................................27
Eject Disc ......................................................................................................................................28
Buzzer............................................................................................................................................28
CD+G ...........................................................................................................................................29
Copycomp Eject.............................................................................................................................29
Read CD DA Index 0......................................................................................................................30
Skip Read Error.............................................................................................................................30
Status 2 Compare...........................................................................................................................31
Startup Command..........................................................................................................................31
OTHER SYSTEM CAPABILITIES ...........................................................................................................32
Setup..............................................................................................................................................32
Edit................................................................................................................................................32
Delete............................................................................................................................................32
Clear .............................................................................................................................................32
Copy x1 .........................................................................................................................................33
Emulate x1.....................................................................................................................................33

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Copy x2 .........................................................................................................................................33
Emulate x2........................................................................................................................................i
Copy x4 .........................................................................................................................................33
Emulate x4.....................................................................................................................................33
Copy x8 .........................................................................................................................................33
Emulate x8.....................................................................................................................................33
Burn In ..........................................................................................................................................33
Update...........................................................................................................................................33
INDEX................................................................................................................................................39

Talon CD Duplicator Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Introducing the Talon Pro
The Talon Pro system enables you to copy multiple CDs at once at 52X speed.
Features
§52X recording speed
§Disc At Once support for audio
§Support for multiple CD formats, including:
-CD+G (compact disc and graphics)
- Karaoke
§Multiple industrial fans for cooling
§Audio track extraction for music disc compilation
System Specifications ( 7 drive tower )
Dimensions: 17”High, 7”Wide, 18”Deep
Weight: 38 lbs.
Power: Universal Power Supply (300 watt)
Duplication Speeds: 52X recording speed (3-7 drives) with internal hard drive (140 discs
per hour with normal application at max configuration)
CD Formats Support for multiple CD formats (including CD+G, Karaoke)
Other: Disc At Once support for Audio
Copy, Copy and Compare, Verification, Emulation, and Load to
Hard Drive are supported
All sizes of business card CD format are supported

Chapter 1 Introduction Talon CD Duplicator
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Installation Instructions
Unpack the Talon Pro system in a clean working area with Statusrate temperature control.
Confirm that the following items have been shipped with the system: power cable, user manual,
and warranty card.
Confirm that the voltage setting (AC 115/230V) is correct.
Confirm that the power input is stable and consistent. Install an uninterruptible power supply
(UPS) if necessary.
Make sure that the environment for the Talon Pro system is properly ventilated and free of dust,
excessive heat and humidity, and electronic interference.
Make sure the system is properly grounded. Do not attempt to defeat the third ground prong on
the power cable.
The system is shipped in professionally designed, foam-based external packaging. Please keep
and store this packaging for future transport or storage of the system.
Warranty Information
The Talon Pro system is guaranteed to be free from defect in materials and
workmanship for one year. The warranty is not applicable to defects or
malfunctions caused by misuse, accidents, or system changes by the end
user. Talon is not responsible for damages to data or related content by
the Talon Pro system.
NOTE: There is no need to fill out a warranty card as Talon keeps track of
all Duplicators by the serial number of the unit in a database.
Note: Talon assumes no responsibility for the illegal copying and
distribution of audio, video, and text/graphics data.
Technical Support
For detailed technical support or questions regarding the Talon Pro, contact Talon Technical
Support at 952.937.8354

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Chapter 2 Getting Started
Turning on the System
Plug the AC cord into the Talon Pro system and then into a wall outlet. Press the ON/OFF button
located in the bottom right corner of the tower unit. The LCD Panel display will light up,
indicator lights on each of the CD writer drives will flash momentarily, the ON indicator light
next to the ON/OFF button will be lit, and the system will indicate it is ready for operation by
emitting a three-tone beep.
About the LCD Panel Display
When you first turn the system on, the information displayed in the LCD Panel will indicate the
current Status of operation (e.g. copy, emulate, etc.)
If copy is not displayed in the LCD Panel Display, press the Status button to cycle through the
list of operation Statuss (copy, copy+comp, emulate, compare, verify, external) until
copy is displayed. This will ensure that you are in the correct Status for the first exercise
presented in this manual, which is copying a CD to a CD (refer to page 3).
For Best Performance
All master CDs must be 52X quality. Use Talon Branded Bulk Media (CDs recommended for
best performance), which are available in 300-disc cartons.
Please consult the dealer where you purchased your unit for the recommended media.
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Copy an Audio CD Now!
Overview This procedure explains how to set the system up for CD to CD duplication
and how to make a copy of a master audio CD.
The purpose of this procedure is to give you a quick start to using the Talon
Pro Duplicator. You will learn more advanced procedures, such as how to
set up for duplicating Karaoke CD masters, how to load various tracks from
multiple CDs into a partition on the hard drive, how to copy up to seven CDs
at a time, etc., once you have learned a few of the basic procedures.
Select “Copy”
for the
Operation
Status
1. Turn on the system. Note the Status of operation in the LCD display
area (copy, emulate, etc.). If copy is not already displayed as the
current Status of operation, press the Status button until copy is
displayed. Your LCD display should look something like this:
Access the
Sub-Function
Menu
2. Press and hold the Status button until you hear the system “chirp.” Then
release the Status button. You should see setup displayed in the LCD
panel:
Back to
“Copy” Status 3. Press the Start button, and note that the copy Status is once again displayed. (In this case, all other sub-function defaults will be used, so
there is no need to change any other sub-function options at this time.)
Insert the
Master CD 4. Place the master CD in the first CD drawer. Use the Open/Close button
to open and close the CD drawer.
copy
<Status
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Start>
setup
<Statu
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Copying an Audio CD (continued)
Insert a Blank
CD 5. Open the second CD drawer and place a blank CD in it. Close the
drawer (using the Open/Close button).
System
Automatically
Analyzes the
Operation
Once you’ve placed the CDs in their respective drawers, you will hear the
system start up. It will automatically scan the master CD to determine the
size and the duration of the master CD. Look for this information in the
LCD Display panel. It should look something like this:
In the above example, the master CD is 448 Megabytes, and is 51 minutes,
and 01 seconds in duration, 51:01.
The 1start> prompt indicates that the system is Starting to make one copy
as soon as you press the Start button.
Begin the
Copy Process 6. Press the Start button. The system will start the copying process. Note
that the LCD display shows Land Cstatus codes. These indicate how
many minutes have been read (L) and how many have been written (C).
When the copy procedure is finished, you will hear a three-tone beep,
the second drawer will automatically open, and the LCD panel will
indicate that one CD passed, and that zero CDs failed the operation. For
example:
Remove the
Duplicated CD
7. Remove the duplicated CD from the second drawer and close the drawer
(using the open/close button on the CD drive).
Congratulations! You have just copied your first CD from a master CD.
Remove the
Duplicated CD 8. Remove the duplicated CD from the second drawer and close the drawer
(using the open/close button on the CD drive).
Congratulations! You have just copied your first CD from a master CD.
PASS 1 FAIL 0
L 51 C51
448M51:01
1start>
copy
<Status

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Copying an Audio CD (continued)
Display the
Operation
Status.
9. Press and hold the Status button until it “chirps” then release. The
LCD panel will display the operation Status once again. For example:
Remove the
Master CD 10. Unless you intend to make more copies of the same master CD, remove
the master CD from the first drawer.
Repeating this
Procedure You have already set the system up to copy from CD to CD. You can repeat
this procedure by placing a master CD in the first drawer, and a blank CD in
the second drawer, and pressing the Start button.
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copy
<Status

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Make Multiple Copies at Once from a Master CD
Overview This procedure explains how to set the system up for making multiple
duplicates at once. The first CD drawer will hold the Master CD, and the
remaining drawers will contain the copies:
Select “Copy”
for the
Operation
Status
1. Turn on the system. Note the Status of operation in the LCD display
area (copy, emulate, etc.). If copy is not already displayed as the
current Status of operation, press the Status button until copy is
displayed. Your LCD display should look something like this:
Access the
Sub-Function
Menu
2. Press and hold the Status button until you hear the system “chirp.”
Then release the Status button. You should see setup displayed in the
LCD panel:
Set the Start
Writers Sub-
Function to the
# of writers
3. Press the Start button, and view the start writers sub-function. The
default for this setting is the number of writers in the system. Press the
Status button as many times as is necessary to display the number for
this setting. This ensures that all CD writers are available for making
copies:
Display
“setup” in the
LCD display
panel
4. Press the Start button as many times as is necessary to cycle through all
of the other sub-functions until you display setup in the LCD Display
panel:
Start>
setup
<Status
[Quit]
start writers
[+] 7
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setup
<Statu
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copy
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Making Multiple Copies from a Master Audio CD (continued)
Back to
“Copy” Status 5. Press and hold the Status button, release it when it “chirps”, and note
that the copy Status is once again displayed.
Insert the
Master 8. Place the Master CD in the first CD drawer. Use the Open/Close button
to open and close the CD drawer. The system will automatically start to
analyze the master CD and will display the size in megabytes and the
number of minutes on the CD.
Insert Blank
CDs 9. Place a blank CD in each of the remaining drawers. Close each drawer
once you’ve inserted a blank CD. Note that the system automatically
starts counting how many CD drives have blank CDs in them.
System
Automatically
Starts the
Duplication
Process
When you put blank CDs in all of the CD writers, the system automatically
starts the duplication process once it has detected that six drives are ready for
copying. The number following the Lshows how many minutes of the
master have been read; the number following the Cshows how many minutes
have been copied.
Pass/Fail
Status is
Displayed
When the system has completed the duplication process, all of the copied
CDs will be automatically ejected (the drawers will automatically open).
The system will indicate how many passed, and how many (if any) failed.
PASS 6 FAIL 0
L 51 C51 C51 C51
44444
C49 C49 C49
L50 C49 C49 C49
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6start>
copy
<Status
copy
<Status

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Making Multiple Copies from a Master Audio CD (continued)
Remove the
Duplicated
CDs
10. Remove the duplicated CDs from the drawers and close each drawer
(using the open/close button on the CD drive).
Congratulations! You have just copied multiple CDs at once from a master
CD.
Remove the
Master CD 11. Unless you intend to make more copies of the same master CD, remove
the master CD from the first drawer. Note that the LCD Display shows
the copy Status once again.
Repeating this
Procedure You can repeat this procedure by placing a master CD in the first drawer, and
placing blank CDs in one or all of the remaining drawers. The system will
automatically analyze the master and detect the number of blank CDs in the
remaining CD drawers. When you are copying fewer than the number of
drives in your system, you must press the START button to begin the
duplication process. (It starts automatically when you fill all blank CD
trays.)

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Make Multiple Copies at Once from a Master CD (continued)
Place Blank
CDs in the
Drives
1. Place a blank CD in each of the CD writers. Note that the system starts
counting the number of active CD drives as you insert blank CDs.
Copy
Operation
Starts
Automatically
Once the system has identified all of the blank CDs it automatically starts to
copy the contents from the selected partition on the hard drive to the blank
CDs. You can note the progress of the copy operation by observing the L
and Cstatus. The copy operation is complete when the number for Cequals
the number of minutes of the CD.
When the load procedure is finished, you will hear a three-tone beep, all
seven drawers will automatically open, and the LCD panel will indicate that
the load operation passed:
Remove the
Master CD 11. Remove the duplicates from the drawers, close the drawers (using the
open/close button on the CD drive).
Congratulations! You have just made seven duplicates from the hard drive.
Note the
Initial
Operation
Status
1. Turn on the system. Note the Status of operation in the LCD display
area (copy, emulate, etc.). Your LCD display should look something
like this:
Access the
Sub-Function
Menu
2. Press and hold the Status button until you hear the system “chirp.” Then
release the Status button. You should see setup displayed in the LCD
panel:
PASS 7 FAIL 0
Start>
setup
<Statu
s
copy
<Statu
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Copying Karaoke CDs
Overview This procedure explains how to set the system up for duplicating Karaoke
CDs or any CD that has graphics and sound files. It explains how to set up
for CD to CD duplication. However, any Karaoke CD can also be loaded
into a partition on the hard drive and copied from there as well.
Start at the
initial
Operation
Status
Turn on the system. The system will display the operation Status that is set
as the startup default operation Status. (copy, emulate, etc.).
Access the
Sub-Function
Menu
1. Press and hold the Status button until you hear the system “chirp.” Then
release the Status button. You should see setup displayed in the LCD
panel:
Change the
CD to CD Sub-
Function
Setting to
“Yes”
2. Press the Start button until you view the CD to CD option:
3. Press the Status button to change the setting from No to Yes:
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Start>
CD to CD
[*] Yes
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CD to CD
[*] No
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Copying Karaoke CDs (continued)
Back to
“Copy” Status 4. Press the Start button, and note that the default operation Status is once
again displayed. In the example below the default operation Status is
copy:
Access the
Sub-Function
Menu Again
5. Press and hold the Status button until you hear the system “chirp.”
Then release the Status button. You should see setup displayed in the
LCD panel:
Change the
Write Method
Sub-Function
Setting to
“Disc At
Once”
6. Press the Start button until you view the write method option:
Press the Status button to change the setting to Disc At Once if it is not
already so (as shown above).
Change the
CD+G Sub-
Function
Setting to
“Yes”
7. Press the Start button until you view the CD and G option:
8. Press Status button to change the CD+G setting to Yes. The CD +G
setting, when switched to Yes, enables the duplication of CDs that have
CD+Graphics: audio, text and graphics used in the same application.
This type of disc is usually used for Karaoke machines.
Accept all
other Sub-
Function
Defaults
9. Press the Start button until you view the setup option:
[Q]
CD+G
[*] Yes
Start>
setup
<Status
[Q]
CD+G
[*] No
[Q]
write method
[*] Disc At Once
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Copying Karaoke CDs (continued)
Back to the
Operation
Status Display
10. Press and hold the Status button until it “chirps.” Then release the
Status button. Note that the default operation Status is displayed. If not
already displayed, press the Status button until copy is displayed:
Insert the
Karaoke
Master CD
11. Place the master CD in the first CD drawer. Use the Open/Close button
to open and close the CD drawer.
Insert a Blank
CD 12. Open the second CD drawer and place a blank CD in it. Close the
drawer (using the Open/Close button).
System
Automatically
Analyzes the
Operation
Once you’ve placed the CDs in their respective drawers, you will hear the
system start up. It will automatically scan the master CD to determine the
size and the duration of the master CD. Look for this information in the
LCD Display panel. It should look something like this:
In the above example, the master CD is 448 Megabytes, and is 51 minutes,
and 01 seconds in duration, 51:01.
The 1start> prompt indicates that the system is Starting to make one copy
as soon as you press the Start button.
Begin the
Copy Process 13. Press the Start button. The system will Start the copying process. Note
that the LCD display shows Land Cstatus codes. These indicate how
many minutes have been read (L) and how many have been written (C).
When the copy procedure is finished, you will hear a three-tone beep,
the second drawer will automatically open, and the LCD panel will
indicate that one CD passed, and that zero CDs failed the operation. For
example:
copy
<Status
PASS 1 FAIL 0
L 51 C51
448M51:01
1START>
copy
<Status

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Copying Karaoke CDs (continued)
Remove the
Duplicated CD 14. Remove the duplicated CD from the second drawer and close the drawer
(using the open/close button on the CD drive).
Congratulations! You have just copied your first Karaoke CD from a master
Karaoke CD.
Display the
Operation
Status.
15. Press and hold the Status button until it “chirps” then release. The LCD
panel will display the operation Status once again. For example:
Remove the
Master CD 16. Unless you intend to make more copies of the same master CD, remove
the master CD from the first drawer.
Repeating this
Procedure 17. You have already set the system up to copy Karaoke CDs from a master
Karaoke CD. You can repeat this procedure by placing a master
Karaoke CD in the first drawer, and blank CDs in the remaining
drawers, and pressing the Start button.
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copy
<Status

Talon CD Duplicator
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Copying Data CDs
Overview This procedure explains how to set the system up for duplicating data CDs
or any CD that has text, graphics, and/or sound files. It explains how to set
up for CD to CD duplication. However, any data CD can also be loaded into
a partition on the hard drive and copied from there as well.
Start at the
initial
Operation
Status
Turn on the system. The system will display the operation Status that is set
as the startup default operation Status (copy, load, emulate, etc.).
Access the
Sub-Function
Menu
1. Press and hold the Status button until you hear the system “chirp.” Then
release the Status button. You should see setup displayed in the LCD
panel:
Change the
CD to CD Sub-
Function
Setting to
“Yes”
2. Press the Start button until you view the CD to CD option:
3. Press the Start button to change the setting from No to Yes:
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Start>
CD to CD
[*] Yes
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CD to CD
[*] No
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Copying Data CDs (continued)
Back to
“Copy” Status 4. Press the Start button, and note that the default operation Status is once
again displayed. In the example below the default operation Status is
copy:
Access the
Sub-Function
Menu Again
5. Press and hold the Status button until you hear the system “chirp.” Then
release the Status button. You should see setup displayed in the LCD
panel:
Change the
Write Method
Sub-Function
Setting to
“Disc At
Once”
6. Press the Start button until you view the write method option:
Press the Status button to change the setting to Disc At Once if it is not
already so (as shown above).
Change the
CD+G Sub-
Function
Setting to
“Yes”
7. Press the Start button until you view the CD and G option:
8. Press Status button to change the CD+G setting to Yes. The CD +G
setting, when switched to Yes, enables the duplication of CDs that have
CD+Graphics: audio, text and graphics used in the same application.
Accept all
other Sub-
Function
Defaults
9. Press the Start button until you view the setup option:
[Q]
CD+G
[*] Yes
Start>
setup
<Status
[Q]
CD+G
[*] No
[Q]
write method
[*] Disc At Once
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setup
<Statu
s
copy
<Status