摘要 |
A single machine combines both a high-speed magnetic tape duplication apparatus and a casette loader (60). The duplicator may accommodate either anhysteretic or thermo-magnetic transfer, and the master tape transport mechanism may function either in a shuttle or a bin-loop mode. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, a single master tape (2) is threaded through multiple transfer heads (28, 30), each head being fed from a separate pancake-type copy-tape supply reel (18a, 18b) and routed into dedicated cassette loading stations (60) to enhance system throughput. |