PROCESS AND ARRANGEMENT FOR WRITING BINARY DATA ONTO GLASS MASTERS

摘要

A system design and the components incorporated therein for storing intelligence, control and accompanying data, general components for the control of the data flow of all components included in the system design as well as special components for the data flow and process control of interface systems for laser beam recorders (LBR). The system design enables a processing of intelligence, control and accompanying data independent of the physical music and data carriers within the premastering sector and the production of glass intermediate storage units (mastering area) by CD plants. All types of data are stored in on-line mass storage units and transferred automatically into the respective areas requesting the respective data by general data flow control components. Requests for data can be produced manually or automatically. Transfer times to the requesting areas or machines are shortened, the necessary premastering expenditures reduced, the mastering runs automated with aid of special control components and considerably shortened in time vis-à-vis conventional methods by the use of a network as carrier medium.