[Dixielandjazz] Disc Makers

[Steve barbone]

Hi Lowell:

YES, the company is for real. You can check them out at;

http://www.discmakers.com

I have not used them (have a friend at Disc Hounds in West Chester PA) but
Disc Makers has a stellar reputation here in the Philadelphia area. Been in
business a LONG TIME, over 50 years.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone.



Lowell Busching <verbose at daktel.com>
> 
> 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.