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- Contacting The Duplicating House -
by Michael Tyler
Computer Music Products
Our precious CD sub-master done, I called the duplicator to give them the news it was ready. We used a company located in Ft. Mill, SC. Jeremy had used them before on some of his previous album projects, so we didn't see the need to search around for anyone else. They have complete facilities for creating the CD glass master from our sub-master, duplication equipment for making the cassettes and CD's for distribution, an art department, a full-color printing service, and automated packaging and shrink wrap. This proved to be a great convenience to have one company take care of all the final details.
We did choose to provide them with our own artwork to hold some of the costs down. I created all the album artwork in CorelDraw 7, and sent the files to them both via e-mail and on a data CD I made especially for them.
In case you're curious, our initial order was for 1,000 CD's and 1,000 cassettes. The total cost for everything, including duplication, printing, and packaging, was just over $3,000. The price can vary considerably depending on what options are chosen and the quantities ordered. Turn-around time was estimated to be about 8 weeks, but was actually closer to 16 weeks from when we gave them the order. The main reason for the delay was that there was a problem with their glass master they made from our master. The cassettes were fine (they used our original master when the cassettes were recorded), but the CD's they made had audible artifacts that were introduced by accident when they made their own CD glass master. As a result, all the CD's had to be returned and redone. To their credit, they admitted their mistake and took care of the situation. Unfortunately, they had to dispose of the original defective CD's -all 1,000 of them!
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