[Dixielandjazz] Disc Makers
D and R Hardie
darnhard at ozemail.com.au
Tue Apr 11 17:11:35 PDT 2006
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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