Pros: Very well built, sturdy all aluminum black case. Quality looking, not cheap. I think they put together a good value. The control panel and manual is well written. It's got a lot of features but I just do the copy to drive and let it go. It burns 3gig dvd's I have in about 4-5 minutes all 5 pop out at once, pretty good productivity. The readout is easy to see, the status is very quick so you don't sit there wondering.

Cons: The tray covers I believe are for the case, I'd have preferred to leave the original drive bays on but it's fine. The box they recommend you keep for shipping back if a problem.... ITS HUGE! The case has a seal so u can't break it or lose your warranty... I'd like to see the internals on this thing but that's my own beef! :)

Overall Review: The printer I have not tried, I'm not sure if I will use it. It basically is a no brainer when it's free shipping and the std version of this w/o printer is about the same price. Right now I use labels so I'll probably hold off on the printer use. Overall I think you will be pleased with the unit. I've burned about 100 cd-r's and 20 DVD's and no coasters so I think it's pretty good value.

Pros: The duplicator works great for our companies short runs of discs (500 range). An intern runs through them in an afternoon.

Cons: Arrived with one of the drives non-functional. Had to RMA for a replacement.

Overall Review: The u-print printer is usefull for keeping collections of cds from all being magic markered on, but not worth much else. We tried it for one of runs of cds, and it cost us around 27 cents a cd for ribbon and one minute per disk not worth it.

Pros: This product fits a niche for our business. For years we have been using a local CD/DVD replicator for large, 50 plus, orders– and we still do. As of late though, we have found it necessary to produce limited runs of 25 -30 CD’s and/or DVD’s. Burning them one at a time from a desktop station just was not feasible. The VINPOWER allows us to dump the project onto the machine’s internal HD and then get back to work. Whoever has a free moment when the timer goes off, just refills the machine. One of its many user friendly features is that it starts automatically depending on the number of copies you “tell it” you are making.

Cons: Two things but not really cons: 1. The ability to daisy-chain several together. 2. No direct connection to your computer –no problem for us but might be for someone wanting to send projects directly from their computer.

Overall Review: Free printer that came with it is not as cost effective as a person armed with a Sharpie and good penmanship.