[Dixielandjazz] Disk Makers

[Lowell Busching]

Can someone on the list confirm for me the validity of a news article in 
the business section of a local area paper over the weekend concerning 
the company called "Disk Makers" head quartered in Pennsauren, N.J. with 
their plant outside Philly?  Apparently they have been around for a long 
time both as record makers and now CD's and making and labeling products 
for Independents and others.  Is this the company used by bands to 
produce  the CD's sold to "unsuspecting" customers at the festivals and 
jazz parties for $10-20 ?  If not, they should be based on the last 
paragraph of the article.

Quote:
In its factory outside Philadelphia, the company manufactures CD's and 
prints the labels for them in batches as small as 300. the price for 300 
discs starts at $300."

Unquote.

Sounds like a pretty good profit margin to me even allowing for other 
overhead. Maybe the cases?  Of course if your band can't sell 300 
copies, it is still not a bargain,  but seriously I am curious if it can 
be done that cheap? Of course they do NO recording themselves. As the 
article says the source may be from as pricy a studio as one in Sweden 
to a home computer in the basement and sent to them.

I am only posting this because in the past other list members have 
complained that certain things that are common knowledge  to most list 
members, has never trickled down to them!  In the unlikely event you did 
not know of this company, you do now.  Get your orders in for those 
Christmas CD's now.  If nothing else, some of you must have at least 300 
relatives or friends you can give them to as cheap gifts. They will 
never know.

Lowell