Duplication Factory

This company is also known as The Duplication Factory.

List of Customers

• Eli Lilly and Company (some rare tapes)
• Feature Films for Families (some copies of Willy the Sparrow and The Buttercream Gang)
• Firm Flex Video (some copies of Body by Jake Firmflex Workout Features Jake's Simple Seven)
• Geoffrey Inc. (some Christmas tapes sold at Toys 'R' Us stores)
• Hometime Video Publishing
• Metacom
• Scholastic Inc. (some copies of I Spy: More Than Meets the Eye)
• Sony Wonder (2001) (some copies of Elmo's World: Birthdays, Games & More!)
• Wagner (some copies of Instructional Video for Wagner Models 355 375)
• Wet Cement Productions (some copies of Ewe Know: Are Ewe Thankful? and other Ewe Know tapes)

How to Tell

• Some tapes from this duplicator had a print date in dark ink, which was laid out like the following examples:

Example 1:

T-80 DFI 37288 11/10/93 09:36

Example 2:

T-115 DFI 106608.01 2ND 5/3/01

• Sometimes the printings looked like this instead:

Example 1:

HTC-UNDERGROUND 106243.11 2ND 4/23/01

Example 2:

EWE THANKFUL 112086.05 2ND 10/22/02

• Tapes from this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
• Two known copies of The Buttercream Gang and Willy the Sparrow by these duplicators have a code with a date and a clock on the bottom of the screen at the end, similar to what CDI Media did, sticking out from the bottom of the vertical blanking interval on their tapes.
• Much like most tapes by Mirror Image Duplication Services, Cassette Productions, Premiere Video, West Coast Video Duplication and New Age Video, some tapes from this duplicator had a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the tail end, accompanied by a rumbling sound in the linear track. However, some tapes from this duplicator from the late 1990s/early 2000s have the static roll of death at the end.

Gallery

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  An example of what print dates on tapes from this duplicator looked like.

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  An example of the code at the end of one known copy of The Buttercream Gang by The Duplication Factory.

Locations

• Chaska, Minnesota

Website

• duplicationfactory.com (via the WayBack Machine)