[Dixielandjazz] Disk Makers

Tue Apr 11 09:00:23 PDT 2006

There is a printer / CD copier that sells for about $1800.  I don't remember 
the company right off hand but it prints on printable CD's which sell for 
less than 50 cents and will print and copy 50 at a wack un attended.  With 
one of those a company could take your CD and reproduce it with a fifty 
cents profit on each CD.  Not bad considering it's almost a hands off 
operation with nothing more to do than change ink cartridges and reload the 
copier every so often.  I would bet that you might not even have to pay 
those pesky ASCAP fees with this guy who probably operates out of his 
basement or better still invest the money in your own machine, plug it into 
a computer and watch it do it's thing.

I haven't used one of these machines and don't know how long it takes or 
their quality but perhaps someone on the list has and can give us a review.

If you want to go cheap you can buy an Epson printer that will print CD's 
(Epson Stylus R320 @$110) and with a little effort and artwork and a 
computer you can turn out your own for less than a dollar each and with what 
you save you might even want to pay the ASCAP fees as well as pay you pretty 
good too.  The CD photo for the jewel case can be done as a fold over for 
about a quarter each on photo paper with the same printer.  So it costs you 
$0.50 for a CD, $0.10 for ink, $0.20 for photo paper and about $0.15 for a 
jewel case plus your time.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lowell Busching" <verbose at daktel.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:51 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Disk Makers

> 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
>
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