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Category : Manufacturing

One of the most common questions for indie labels and musicians is, “how and where can I get my music onto CD?” There’s a billion options out there for manufacturing from burning your music yourself onto CD-R one by one, to going the full 4/4 color 8 page CD booklet with jewel box route.

For those who are interested in something inbetween, cost is always an issue. For doing basic replication of CDs ONLY with no jewel boxes or inserts, we’ve gone with CDCentric twice in the past with little complaints. Let me tell you this up front: as a CD manufacturer, CDCentric is a bit BORING. But that’s just what we wanted. No flashy ads, no extra doohickeys added on, no hidden fees. Just plain old cheap CD/DVD replication is what we go to them for.

The last CD we manufactured with them was in 2004(?) but the prices haven’t changed much. One thing that is rather nice is that unlike many other CD manufacturers, there’s no need to ask them for a quote. You go their website and all of their prices are laid out on the home page. Couldn’t be easier.

Most people go for the “Value Packages” which range from 1000 CDs in paper sleeves for $626 delivered, to the same number of CDs but with a 4/1 4-panel insert with jewel box for $1099. Note that in all cases, these refer to “replicated” CDs (manufactured using a real glass master, etc.) versus “duplicated” CDs (made using CD-R technology). There are a lot of other companies who seem to have cheaper prices, but that’s often because they are duplicating CDs as opposed to replicating them. Another item that is often left out of the prices are the films and outputs… I have seen a ton of other places that tack this onto the end of the bill, and it can be over 100 dollars just for that!

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