[Dixielandjazz] Disk Makers

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Lowell:

It is valid indeed,  they are the manufacturing plant of choice for me 
and my artist.   I order them by the thousands, often use them as 
business cards.   Shameless promotion.   Good quality, fast turnaround 
and rarely ever a reject CD that does not work.


Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band



-----Original Message-----
From: Lowell Busching <verbose at daktel.com>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:51:42 -0500
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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