[Dixielandjazz] Disk Makers

[John McClernan]

Lowell,
I did not see the news article, but I have used DiskMakers in the  
past and found them to be highly reputable. The plant is only about  
1/2 hour from me and it has been in the same location for quite  
awhile. They were very helpful on the 'phone. Ask for their catalog.  
It's a help. The first time they did a job for one of my bands, we  
were still distributing audio cassettes. CDs were a brand new item  
for them. They also sell duplicators, in case you want to do your own.
My 2¢. That's my story and I"m sticking to it.
John



On Apr 11, 2006, at 4:51 AM, Lowell Busching wrote:

> 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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