On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 14:16 -0800, m1abrams wrote: > The equipment to press a CD is NOT cheap anywhere. I am not talking > burning a CD with CDRs.
Some of this is what is the definition of cheap? Nearly all of the cost of making production CDs (pressing the plastic, printing the cover art, etc.) is setup. Making the glass master, doing the separations for the color printing, setting up the printer, etc. plus cleaning all the machines afterwards. There is nearly zero difference in cost of having 1000 or 2000 CDs made. And having 500 made costs almost exactly what making 1000 costs. In the US, the typical cost is $1000 for 1,000 copies, four color printing, shrink wrapped, with UPC and that damned plastic anti-theft strip for retail sales. The "mechanical" license for each song is seven cents ($0.07) so a 13 or 14 song CD of covers will cost as much for the licenses as for production in the uS. If you want serious volume, the price per CD comes down a lot. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
