The feasibility of magnetic contact duplication for perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) media at 1 Tbit/inch2 was investigated by using micromagnetic simulation. The exchange constant dependence of the duplication performance has a maximum value. Two factors improve the duplication performance: decreasing the c-axis distribution of the recording layer and decreasing the distance between master and slave disks. However, the anisotropy field dispersion of the recording layer has almost no influence on the duplication performance. When the c-axis distribution is decreased, the exchange constant is optimized and the spacing is less than 5 nm, the magnetic contact duplication for PMR media at 1 Tbit/inch2 is feasible.