Duplication Factory

This company is also known as The Duplication Factory.

List of Customers

• Dart Distributing L.L.C.
• Eli Lilly and Company (some 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 RARE Barney and the Backyard Gang tapes)
• METACOM
• 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:

WHO DO YOU NOW? 104842.01 2ND 12/10/00

Example 2:

HTC-UNDERGROUND 106243.11 2ND 4/23/01

Example 3:

EWE THANKFUL 112086.05 2ND 10/22/02

Example 4:

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

Example 5:

DFI GARAGE 119741.06 2ND 1/12/04

• 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 known copy of The Buttercream Gang by this duplicator had 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.
• Most tapes from this duplicator have a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the tail end, accompanied by a rumbling sound in the linear track, just like Cassette Productions.
• Several tapes from the post-2003 have the static roll of death at the end, especially Mirror Image.

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)