CD Production... Use a company like Discmakers? Or do it myself with my computer?

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I don't have much to offer here, but I am planning on making a low budget local release in about a year. I plan on only making about a 100 cd's so you may want to burn cd's if your project is small like mine. With this small project, I will not feel the pressure of trying to be a big star and hopefully learn during the process. Anything larger, a professional company may need to be considered.
 
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pisces7378 said:
can you recomend the BEST graphics program that you know of? And then recomend one that is within reason of price and learning curve.
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The best graphics program would have to be Adobe Photoshop. This is regarded as an industry standard. Only recently have I seen what can REALLY be done in photoshop. WHOA!!!
 
So,

How much would the cheapest printer be that could print text or images on a cdr? And where can they be located?
 
Adobe Photoshop is by far one of the best graphics programs on the market. I own an indie label and we do all of our graphics in house and we have been using photoshop for the past two years. We have the current 6.0 and it is a lot more user friendly. In the end it helps in cutting prices as far as having someone else do what your mind sees!

Marty, what is your total price of printing and buring your own project..100 peices?
 
in my case...

Hi all,

I've been reading through this post and I agree with what you are saying - go with the pro's to have the CD done if you are serious about promoting your music.

However, in my case - this is just something I do for fun and the extent of my CD production will probably be 30 CDs or so (just to give to my friends and family). So, I'm going to stick to making my CD labels and inserts at home obviously.

I was wondering if you all could suggest some good materials to do this. Also, someone once told me that putting one of the sticker labels on a CD will slow down the CD reading and may cause it not to play correctly - is this true? I'd really appreciate your advice on all this.

Thanks!
 
Hmm, people are throwing around graphic software around here like it mattered. It's the artist, not the tool. If the guy don't know what software to use he's probably not capable of doing anything worthwhile in it either. Go with a freeware package in that case, or the cheapest around...

I would suggest him to get hold of a good photographer or good traditional artist instead (paintbrush artist), there are alot of them out there who will work for very little money...
 
Graphic software does matter. Even if you have a professional photographer (I conveniently happen to be engaged to one) do a photo you still need to consider the band logo, track list, credits, copyright notice, etc. A photograph does not a CD booklet make.

Figuring out how to scan that painting is even worse ;)

Most CD players will play a CD-R but unfortunately not all. CD stomper's label quality is better than neato's, you get a better result.

I use photo paper and a paper cutter for CD inserts. For the back panel photo quality paper is ok.

Some places will thermal print on blank CDRs for you, a better solution than labels which cheapen the look of your product.

Nothing beats a professional run, but unfortunately I know too many bands with hundreds of unsold cds lying around collecting dust.
 
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