{"id":3045,"date":"2010-06-30T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2021-07-02T07:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:03:55","slug":"cd-duplication-reasons-why-you-should-leave-it-to-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/cd-duplication-reasons-why-you-should-leave-it-to-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Duplication: Reasons Why You Should Leave it to the Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you want to become as indie as possible and create everything on your own from writing the lyrics of your music down to reproducing your CDs? Why freakin’ not? With today\u2019s technology, CD duplication is as easy as making French toast. And besides, you are already an artist. It would not be that hard to awaken your designing skills.<\/p>\n\n\nGood Quality CD burners can now easily be bought with the prices going significantly lower.\u00a0 Home printers have the ability to print on CD labels and there are computer programs that make CD album art fairly easy to create. You would have total artistic freedom and you would most definitely save a lot of money since you no longer need to hire a graphic designer and a CD manufacturing house.\nRight?\nI have to quote National Geographic on this advise I\u2019m about to give you\u2026\nTHINK AGAIN.\nIt is certainly a lot easier and cheaper (and a whole lot better!) if you let a CD manufacturing company do the job for you. The CD manufacturing people<\/a> know exactly what they are doing from start to finish. They\u2019ve been doing the same process for years. So instead of using up all your time and energy researching and learning how to produce a CD from scratch, focus on hunting for a good CD manufacturing company in your area that offers the best deals. This way, you are more confident that the CDs\u00a0 have good quality.\nAnother thing is that these CD Manufacturing companies have high-end facilities that ensure good quality. You do not have the luxury to experiment or totally D-I-Y your album. If you want to make your CD art as personal as possible, no problem. Come up with a concept that\u2019s totally yours. But you need help in technical aspects and the actual CD reproduction. With the CD packaging, most home printers are ink-jet printers which have far lesser visual appeal compared to those made by professionals. If you want to achieve the quality of the album covers of your favorite bands, then you can either gather lots of dollars and purchase really good quality printers which you will not likely use afterward or have them done by a CD manufacturing company at a lesser price.\nYou might also know that reproducing your own album is very, very, very time-consuming. The CD burning process alone could take 20 minutes each disc. Now multiply that to say 500 discs? That\u2019s 166 hours or 7 days without stopping. Phew. I can just imagine how boring it could get. And that\u2019s just with burning alone. Now how about album art printing with home printers? Oh my! Wait, what about the time you need for album art conceptualization, for buying CDs and CD cases, for looking for the right paper, for researching on copyrights and other legal requirements, oh what a pain!\nYou should also erase the notion that reproducing CDs on your own is cheaper.\u00a0 It is not cheap at all! Big, high-end machines are needed in order to make a decent-looking CD- the kind that you\u2019ll not be shy to show-off and sell. It also requires lots of skills and know-how. You may be an artist but you are an artist of a different kind. Graphic design has rules and standards that you cannot learn in a snap.\u00a0 It takes a whole course to even get a grasp of CD art design.\nSo you see, it\u2019s not as easy as it seems.\u00a0 Let the CD manufacturers do it and just focus on your music;-)\nphoto credit: www.amstore.co.uk<\/em>\n \n_________________________________________________________________\nUnified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is a custom CD\/DVD and Vinyl Manufacturing facility based on both sides of the US. Our clients range from indie artists to major label artists such as Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, and Ringo Starr. If you need an Instant Quote on a project AND you want\u00a0FREE SHIPPING<\/strong>\u00a0( free shipping on all quotes from the blog) \u2013 Then\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>.\n ]]> \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So you want to become as indie as possible and create everything on your own from writing the lyrics of your music down to reproducing your CDs? Why freakin’ not? With today\u2019s technology, CD duplication is as easy as making French toast. And besides, you are already an artist. It would not be that hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd-duplication-packaging","category-cd-manufacturing","category-dvd-packaging"],"contentshake_article_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32312,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/32312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}