Compact Disc Manfacturing

Today, with instant distribution and advertising on digital services like Spotify if you decide to print a compact disc which format do you use?

Like the automobile industry for example....like compact discs, automobiles are extremely over priced in todays markets.

You have to remember that automotive is a large industry but not as large as agriculture or mining, so today if technology makes mining super cheap and wages are still the same, minimum wage for working in the woods probably cutting down trees then why are the cars so expensive.

Well if the car is over priced, I'd value them a $400 for a basic car by today's standards, and the cost of supplies to build a car is so cheap metals and plastics which hold their value as recyclable material then where is the expense at?

It can't be in design because everyone already knows how to design a car, then it must be at the manfacturing plant.

Then why is it so expensive to manufacture a car when the materials cost nothing to build it?

I don't have the answer but it must be the manufacturing plant because that's the only place it could be at. 

That's where in the automobile industry they need to cut the cost at the manufacturing plant that's where the expense is.

That might create job loss or not, but I don't know...that will depend on how many cars they sell when they are so common they are only sold at $400.

In the dashboard now there is no CD player...it's the Spotify web browser on it with all the music for free...podcasts and Howard Stern are just free in the car on the player now.

However, don't be concerned...jobs in natural resources like farming, mining , fishing and forestry will never be replaced...there will always be money because no matter what happens or what inventions are discovered they all require the same job to make them, natural resources.

Those jobs will always be there.

I was going to include this in my previous post, but it became it's own topic.

Like the Canadian Government in Ottawa blocking our economy and not accepting new University Students with new science and inventions so they can triple job share my position and others like me so is the way of the Compact Disc.

So if the problem is we have no money to print cd's then the answer is to ruin the medium...the compact disc, which is now worthless.

I mean the Sony Redbook disc, that's what we have to ruin - to remove the block that is holding us back from printing our music in the industry, so we throw out the redbook disc the basic silver replicated cd and then we are all set.    

The answer today is if the financial block is the medium, then the official Sony Redbook compact disc, the answer is to throw out the medium to remove the block.

Making replicated cds worthless. 

Like this...

Today there are three types of Compact Disc, I liken the Spotify webplayer on your latop like a school binder that you open with a music player, all students should have a laptop in the class today plus they should be given to them for free, then they can take pencil notes while they work on and learn to use the computer and do their work on the laptop.

Compact Disc Printing:

1. Replicated CD - the main one.

2. Duplicated CD - made on duplicators not replicators.

3. On Demand Printing.

Producing a replicated disc starts at runs of 300 - 500 cds...that is the main disc and the most expensive.

A duplicated disc runs start at around 25 for about $5 each to manufacture. 

The main differences is the replicated disc is made with a "master" like an lp and then run off on the production line - that is the main disc.

A duplicated disc which is easier to manufacture is run off on the duplicator which is like a set of cd burners.

Both cd's have the same top print and booket.

So today we have to throw out the replicator as a valued product because it is a block in the music industry because it's limited to only starting at 300 runs where the other is 25 or less if you just want a few discs.

Of course I would choose the replicator but it is worthless today, it just makes a nicer looking disc that is all it does, the actual album today is on the school binder aka laptop on the Spotify web player. 

Or other streaming service.

The last option is "On Demand"...you send your templates to a company and they duplicate them on the duplicator and sell them as ordered, one at a time...in the future those may be extremely collectable as a rare disc print but today people prefer a pre-manfactured disc.

If you are starting your own record label, be prepared to never leave your desk for the rest of your life, or just starting out in a band your best option after Spotify and web distribution is to start with the cheaper duplicated disc.

Today in music specifically Black Metal, Death Metal and other Heavy Metal it is common to get a first run of discs as duplicated discs.

A label for example can release a part of the pressing on the duplicator and start with 25-50 copy pressings per artist that can begin to sell...remember, no one buys any cd's.

So if you order an album you might notice it was made on a duplicator, that may mean it was an early pressing.

I mean why make 300-500 copies when you didn't even sell 50 on the duplicator.

Plus if you start out on small runs of duplicated cds, no one knows how many you make anyway, that can be the same print and booklet as the replicator, plus no one cares anyway and we ruined the medium of the replicated cd because of it's limited short run capacity.

So there is no difference, it only a nicer looking disc...plus the regular songs are on Spotify anyway.

Think of it as a DVD disc +r versus -r .

A replicated is +r and is minimum runs of 300-500 discs and duplicator is -r with minimum runs of 1 or 25-50.

If you are just starting out and making a record label you might want to make a test press of a small run on the duplicator to see if the disc will sell....if you start selling on the small one you can switch to a larger run to press the cd on the replicator later.

Remember, fans don't care what the disc is so they don't expect anything...plus the official version today is free on the internet web player.

On demand cd's aren't as appealing to me, however on demand book printing which is also offered is.

I love on demand book printing and will probably be using it in the future.

On demand is good for cd's if you just want to get the record out on a printed version in any format, just to have it released.

Later you can change pressing formats and reissue the album and maybe expand the booklet or something to make a new version for a later pressing.

Then after your cds are released as duplicated as a small run first and the label and bands get going, or your independent band, then that will show you that the cd will sell...after that start putting your money into larger runs which are then later CHEAPER on the replicator, if you want the old "official cd version" which is worthless today.

Runs of thousands of cds become super cheap on the replicator but not as small runs.

Remember no one cares, they just want a copy... 

I would say I would pick the replicator as my preferred format but it is ruined in today's markets.

However, when I buy a cd and it is made on a duplicator and if I even notice then I have no reaction. 

That's just how cds come today.

If your like me and want your disc to look like it was printed in 1985, then you need the replicator, but remember fans don't care which one it is.

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