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2. The Robotic Platform
The Disc Makers ReflexAuto autoloader (with 1000 Disc Capacity) has five spindles (see Figure 1-3) that
hold approximately 250 discs each.(Actual quantity varies depends on the media thickness) Initially Spindle
1 is empty. The robotic arm picks blank discs from Spindle 2 first, and places the successful copies onto
Spindle 1. Once Spindle 2 is empty, it picks blank discs from Spindle 3, and places the successful copies
onto Spindle 2. It then picks from Spindle 4 and places onto Spindle 3, and then picks from Spindle 5 and
places onto Spindle 4. Reject discs are placed on to the deck below the drive trays. (Throughout this
manual, this area is also referred as Reject Area )