CD Mass Duplication Question

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 16 Feb 2003 12:30 pm

Anyone able to recommend a CD duplication service that won't kill you financially for small copy runs (probably 50-100 at a time)? It seems like there are some great deals out there once you hit 1000 retail-ready copies or so but I truly need small lots. Ideas?

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 16 Feb 2003 12:44 pm

Retail copies are made with a glass-master. That's why it becomes cheaper on bigger runs.

You may want to set up one or two machines and run copies yourself. I know, it is a lot of work, but it is a cheap way of doing this.

Altrenatively, phone an educational place where they have a lot of computers with CD burners, and ask the lecturer or the students do do all the burning. Very fast and cheap. At our school we get this request often.

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Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 16 Feb 2003 8:50 pm

Try calling the Disc Factory at 1-866-747-5325. I used to have their web address, but lost it (it is NOT [url=http://www.discfactory.com;]www.discfactory.com;[/url] that is somebody else with worse prices). But these guys have really low prices. Check them out and if you call them, get their web address and please post it to this thread.
Jim

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 19 Feb 2003 7:49 am

I bought a new CD burner for my "music" computer yesterday. It's rated at 52x and cost $109 Canadian! .. that's about $72 US this AM! I burned a CD of 25 Gene Watson songs from 3 LPs that I recorded as .wav files..took about 3 minutes, and those 25 songs filled the CD. I also did a 10 song ET album. That took 1 min 32 sec.

Don't know if this info helps, but it seem to me that if you already have a computer (or two!) you could set up a low volume reproduction system quite cheaply

I should add that, to realize maximum record speed, you have to be sure you either get top grade CD blanks, or scale the speed down to match what you have.

Also, the recording times I got were from .wav files to CD. It's much slower doing a CD Copy.

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[This message was edited by Don Walters on 19 February 2003 at 12:06 PM.]