[Dixielandjazz] Disk Makers

[Russ Guarino]

Musicos,

One problem I found with printing labels for CDs was that when I put them on the
CD I would often get a wrinkle that I could not fix.

Russ Guarino, Clarinet Maven

"Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis" wrote:

> 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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