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Where to get CDs reproduced

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drcool

Jan 9, 2008
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#1
OK. Our recordings are finished and are currently getting mastered.

Where should I get our CDs reproduced??? I have been looking at Invalid Link Removed. They seem to have some pretty good prices for 1,000 or so CDs.

Anyone else have any recommendations or places you have worked with in the past?
 
#3
Where your main cost is, is the disc label. Basic text is cheap then whether you want simple ink jet printing or the nice lacquer transfer. The blank disks are about ten cents and duplicators are cheap for a couple hundred you can buy your own duplicator or build one. The printing is not cheap and is the slow part of the process, a lacquer transfer take about three minutes per disc. Cases vary from just sleeves to j-fold cardboard, to plastic.

So decided on where you want to spend your money nice graphics and folder/case or quantity of discs for mainly getting people to hear you and info on how to contact you.
 
#4
This is what we are currently looking at: Invalid Link Removed

It is a 6 panel CD wallet. Full color printing on the wallet and 3 color on the CD itself. The cost for 1000 is $1290 so only $1.29 per CD which seems much less expensive than a lot of the other options we have looked into.

The 6 panels will give us plenty of room to put all the pertinant info and we should end up with a fairly professional looking CD when we are all done.
 
#6
drcool said:
This is what we are currently looking at: Invalid Link Removed

It is a 6 panel CD wallet. Full color printing on the wallet and 3 color on the CD itself. The cost for 1000 is $1290 so only $1.29 per CD which seems much less expensive than a lot of the other options we have looked into.

The 6 panels will give us plenty of room to put all the pertinant info and we should end up with a fairly professional looking CD when we are all done.
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Diskmakers is great to work with, I do a lot of mass DVD replication and they are first rate.
 
#7
Discmakers.com is probably the most used.

my bluegrass band just did an 4-panel digi-pak with pocket and 8-page insert, full color everything.. i went a little overboard in the artwork ;)

i suggest keeping it simple, and stay away from the pocket inserts on the digipak, as the price to stuff it in with the cd jacked my price up by $900..

all said an done, the cd run of 1000 units cost us around $2700. now add in the studio costs, and we get close to almost $6/cd in production costs, which means we gotta sell this album for $10-15 if we want to make any profit.

next cd is gonna be hella lot cheaper.. it's a Live CD made up of our hottest tracks from our winter run of shows, so no studio costs (mixing/mastering it myself this time), and i plan to do a CD Wallet or Sleeve style. my goal is to get down to total cost of $1/cd for production costs.
 

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