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Conclusion:
Positive:
- Easy one button operation
- First in First out design
- No robotic arm
- Well defined Operations manual
- Internal hard disk drive
- No PC required
- Lid closes for dust free operation
- Small form factor
- CD-R burning was Very good
- Has Disc Verification
- Low cost duplication
- No learning curve to operate
- Up to 100 disc capacity
- Good DVD+R burning
Negative:
- Needs more control over the medias burning speed
Conclusion:
The Acronova Nimbie NB12 is simple for anyone to operate, setup literally took only minutes. Once turned on the straight forward push button operation made duplicating a breeze. The intuitive quick start manual explained every feature in great enough detail making it easy enough to read for the novice but had enough detailed information for the experience user. The "none robotic arm" design is quite unique in that the discs are not picked up and moved around; they simply drop into the tray and gives you "first in" "first out" duplication. The internal hard drive is another great feature, not only for storing the disc images created from the Master disc but can be used to Verify the duplicated discs. The CD-R quality in both "Safe" and "High" speed mode were Good to Excellent producing quality burns on all our test media.
The DVD quality was Good on our +R media but the "Safe" mode and "High" mode on our -R media did present a few issues with PIF (Parity Inner Failures) spikes over 4. This can be caused by the media burning either too slow or too fast. In future updates we would like to see a few more settings to control the speed the discs are being duplicating at.
To sum up this duplicating system up in one sentence… “The Acronova Nimbie NB12 is well designed automated duplicating system with disc verification, superior ease of use and good disc writing”.
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Special thanks to:
We would like to thank Acronova for providing the Acronova Nimbie NB12 Duplicator used in this review. Acronova Technology Inc. a US based manufacturer of DVD, CD and Blu-ray duplicators.
