How much does it cost to shape and print a CD??

[pablo]

I want to burn the first compilation of my own music, it's not the big deal, I just want to have something for the people to know I exist and make good music, just give one to my g/f, close friends and family, the rest to be distributed into bar owners and that stuff to see If someone likes it and call me to do play at his bar or do a serious recording.

I don't want to make like a 500 copies single! I think about 50 would be more than enough and I have plenty of time to do it on my own CD burner so I won't pay a CD duplicator, one cool thing I thought about was making it a MiniCD, I don't know if you ever heard of it, Its smaller so it fits in the small ring of your CD-Rom, I can contain 180 Mbs so I think that would be about 18 Minutes?? That's enough for me, that must be like 8 of my 2 minutes and so songs... I looked over ebay for these and they were about the same price as a REgular CD, now what about printing on them?? that would really look cool, who does that kind of work?? Is that expensive?? can they print not like 500 CDs but 50 ??

[atomictoyz]

Hey Pablo,

I was looking to do the samething. I went and made me an MP3 site, but there is this place I found I think would be better now that I stumbled onto it, check it out.

http://www.homemademusic.com/production/#ondemand


I hope this helps.

Peace,


Dennis

[Queue]

Handi CD labels: (business card shaped)

http://www.neato.com/default.asp?got...FHANDICDLABELS

Mini CD labels: (80 mm circles)

http://www.neato.com/neato_xt_produc...5Fid=%5FMINICD

Queue

[billycatfish]

even better is www.discs-on-demand.com
his business makes it possible for me to have a label.
in fact, when you talk to him, tell him i sent you. maybe he'll give me a better deal on my next order.

THIS IS EXCELLENT FOR SMALL RUNS! I'M SURPRISED MORE FOLKS DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!

lbc

[pablo]

Thanks for everything, I checked all the links!!
Queue, that's very handy like for labeling you own CDs so you won't forget what's in it, but the idea is printing ON the CD, not on a paper pasted to the CD (That's what I understood from the site)
That CDs on demand bussines is great!! I think I'll go with that!
The one billycatfish showed me is cheaper, and with that money I would be able to do some decent masterizing in a proper studio! no risk

Jesus, that so great, everyone should know about it!

Have you used?? how was it?? the quality on the printing??

[billycatfish]

pablo,
sounds as if you're as impressed with the place as i was!
a friend of mine uses his services for his label... www.royalfuzz.com
he's walking me through setting up my own label using the service. i haven't placed my first order yet (my label's still getting a website and lineup together), but will in the next month or so (probably a bunch at once). i have seen the finished product though (royal fuzz's thin man cd) and quality is great, just like store-bought.
anyway, stay in touch and let me know how it works out.
yeah, i agree, more people should know about his services, maybe if we spread the word we can make sure he gets good business and sticks around.
he also seemed very open to comments and suggestions for future services.

[pablo]

Hey by the way, do you know about the legal stuff you have to do to have a record company??
Someone told it was virtually free to do... and mantain, unless you make very good monmey out of it...

[billycatfish]

uh, not really....
well, like a band, i doubt if you'd really have to worry about income, losses, etc unless you were making a SIGNIFICANT amount of dough.
royal fuzz is actually a collective, so maybe that makes a big difference.
we're just dealing with (mostly) friends' bands, so we don't intent nor expect to make any kind of profit.
anyone else have advice on label legalities? i have no big aspirations here - just wanna put out a few cds by myself and some friends' bands.
how concerned should i be about income, taxes etc?

thanks