[Dixielandjazz] Disc Makers

[D and R Hardie]

Hi Everybody
Do any Australians on the list know of a similar set up here.
Cheers
Dan Hardie
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~darnhard/EarlyJazzHistory.html


On Wednesday, April 12, 2006, at 04:58  AM, Steve barbone wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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