The Autoloader panel allows you to control many aspects of autoloading robotics. You can specify a label image file and even pass information to a third party printing application for printing on a supported disc printer. You can also specify a quality control threshold for halting the entire task based on rejects in consecutive duplication cycles and cycle the mechanical aspects of the autoloader and its drives without writing.

The Autoloader panel is only activated if you have a robotic autoloader currently attached to your system and are running a DiscJuggler license with autoloader support.

CD/DVD Printer:

DiscJuggler allows you to specify a string that will be passed to popular disc printing applications, for printing a label and/or serializing discs. Alternatively .BMP (Windows bitmap), .JPG, and .PRN (raw printer data) files can be specified in which case DiscJuggler will send it directly to the disc printer.

Overlay:

A simple overlay of Arial, 12pt text centered at the lower region of the disc. New lines can be created by using the | (pipe) character.

Good label:

These parameters are used whenever DiscJuggler needs to print a disc that has been successfully written. In the above example the "%m" variable will be replaced with the value 1 (one) and automatically incremented each time DiscJuggler writes a good copy of a master disc.

For example the following string:

Good label:   "c:\labels\label%m.prn |1|"

... will be expanded as follows:

Master 1, copy 1:    "c:\labels\label1.prn"

Master 1, copy 2:    "c:\labels\label1.prn"

Master 2, copy 1:    "c:\labels\label2.prn"

Master 2, copy 2:    "c:\labels\label2.prn"
Master 2, copy 3:    "c:\labels\label2.prn"

Please read the Batch Printing section of the Autoloaders chapter for the more details on using the simplest way to batch print with an autoloading device.

Error label:

These are the parameters used by DiscJuggler to print a disc that was not recorder successfully. Please refer to the "Good label" section for a detailed syntax explanation.

Print disc(s) before recording:

Checking this option allows autoloader to print the disc label(s) before writing the discs. This option is especially useful when you using card-type discs as they need to be inserted into the disc label printer with the same orientation due to their asymmetric shape.
 

Halt task after n consecutive rejects:

A quality control measure to halt the process when producing at least one unacceptable disc on n consecutive cycles of the duplication task. This type of failure could indicate a hardware or media problem.

Cycle only (ignore action):

Allows the robotic elements of the autoloader system to be exercised for purposes of testing or demonstrating without performing the action specified in the Action & Method panel.

Skip clean-up procedure:

When DiscJuggler starts a new task where an autoloader is being used, it assumes all the drives in the unit are empty and trays closed. If you are sure that all drives are empty and trays closed, you can use this option to skip the clean-up procedure and save time.

Please check the Autoloaders chapter for additional features and information.