Duplication Factory

This company is also known as The Duplication Factory.

List of Customers

• Dart Distributing L.L.C.
• 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
• The Lyons Group (1991) (some Barney and the Backyard Gang tapes)
• Miracle-Ear (some copies of Miracle-Ear: Hearing Loss & You)
• METACOM
• Remington Country (some copies of An Important Message: The Safe Use & Care of Your New Firearm)
• Scholastic, Inc. (some copies of I Spy: More Than Meets the Eye)
• Sony Wonder (2001) (one known copy of Elmo's World: Birthdays, Games & More!)
• Sylvan Learning Center (2002) (one known copy of Sylvan Learning Center: Learning Feels Good)
• Wagner (some copies of Instructional Video for Wagner Models 355 375)
• Wet Cement Productions (some Ewe Know tapes)

How to Tell

• Some tapes from this duplicator had a print date in dark ink, which was formatted 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

Example 3:

EWE GOING THERE? 112993.02 1ST 11-15-02

• However, some tapes from this duplicator did not have any form of printing at all.
• Tapes from this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
• One copy of The Buttercream Gang duplicated here has been known to 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. This was followed by a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the tail 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)