?I've owned a Primera Bravo since the summer of 2003. Myself and a buddy put together an instructional package which we sold on Ebay. We needed 300 copies of 4 different cds. You could imagine who expensive this would have been from and cd duplication factory. Our per unit costs would have been close to $2. We decided to shell out the $1300 and buy ourselves a Primera Bravo.

Before we purchased the Primera Bravo, we had done a run of 25 instructional packages. These were sort of our prototypes for testing how best to put together the instructional package, but also if they were going to sell at all.

I had the fun task of burning 100 cds in one night with standard cd burners. In a way, I was the robot arm that loaded and unloaded each cd. I brought 2 computers over and we started burning cds with Nero on all 3 machines. When one cd was finished, I'd put another one in.

This process was incredibly inefficient and proved to be a total waste of time.

Not only was I busting my tail for nearly 2 hours trying to keep each cd burner busy, but my buddy was downstairs printing up the labels and placing them onto the cd-rs. If you have ever done this, you know that getting the label onto the cd-r perfectly is almost an impossibility. To even do a reasonable job takes an enormous amount of time and patience.

I remember the day that our 1200 printable cd-rs came with our Primera Bravo. It was amazing! We first had to transfer our graphic design into the Primera Bravo's graphics software. That wasn't too difficult at all. As soon as we had the graphics finished, we simply told the cd burning software included in the Primera Bravo that we wanted to burn 3 copies of the audio cd. We then specified which audio files we wanted included. We then specified the graphic file we wanted to include (which we had just created). We loaded 25 cds into the Bravo and hit the “go” button.

I went downstairs and worked on other things. In an hour or so, I returned to the Bravo and reloaded it taking the completely finished audio cds out. If you have ever spent 2 hours burning cds and then even more hours printing labels for cds, you know that it's a miserable experience and really a total waste of time. Using the Primera Bravo is 100% efficient once you get it setup.

The best thing was we had paid for our Primera Bravo after those first 1200 cd-rs were finished. We ended up spending about $400 on materials, if my memory servers me well plus $1300 for the Primera Bravo. We would have spent at least $2200 if we had printed our cds through a cd duplication house.