What's the best duplicator?

[NickSpringfield]

Me and my buddy, who are both working on full length cd's, got sidetracked a little and started working one something together. And being a lot of the people in my area wanna hear some more stuff from us, we decided to speed write and record a 13 track album and do a short-run of like 100 cd's to sell for somewehre around $5. We figured it would be cheaper and look much nicer if we had them made professionally instead of burning them ourselves and printing up labels and stuff.

My question is if any of you have pressed up cd's, and if you have any opinions on which duplicator is good and which ones are bad.

Right now, after just doing a small search, we might go with ELS Productions.

As I said, we want only 100 (to start... maybe more if they sell well) and just black and white cover... very simple. I'm submitting my own art.

Thanks a lot.

-Nick Springfield

 

[stray411]

In a short run like that, I don't think you'll find a rate that would be cheaper than doing it yourself. Burning CDRs and using labels is a cheap way of doing it yourself, although nowhere near as professional looking. Inserts are very easy to do on your own.

If you want printing on disk I would look at just having the printing done and do the burning and inserts yourself. Or have the printing and burning done, but still do the inserts yourself. www.diskmakers.com has some pretty reasonable rates you might want to take a look at.

Stray

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