Re: TI-H: Re: TIcalc/TIPhiles
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Re: TI-H: Re: TIcalc/TIPhiles
Do we really need the jewel cases though? I mean, i'd be perfectly happy to
get it in a brown cardboard thing like i get my QNX beta CD's. Leave all the
docs on the disk (hell...throw in an autorun). There are a lot of ways we
can cut costs here. Of course, if it is only 80 CD's...i'll gladly do it on
CD-R (for the cost of the CD+Shipping, and a little $$$ for the labor -
prolly $3 to $4 total)
-- Jon Olson
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hill <gregh@xmission.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: TIcalc/TIPhiles
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>Believe me.. I know what it costs here. I have a friend who has produced a
>few CDs on his own. I addition, my school has three show choirs which each
>produce a CD every year. When you've got a CD which needs to be
>commercially produced, you take a copy of it to the duplication place.
>They have a master made (at a cost of like $700) from which the individual
>CDs are produced. I also worked at a CD duplication place, so I know the
>actual parts in the CD are *very* inexpensive.. about a dime for the disc,
>plus 50 cents or so for the jewel case. But there is a lot of labor
>involved in putting the cards into the jewel cases, assembling the cases,
>printing the label onto the CD, quality checking each one, putting the CD
>into the jewel case, wrapping them, shipping them... So the cost really
>does get up there. They have to pay fairly well to get employees who'll
>keep working there very long, and they still have a high employee turnover
>rate. That means lots of time wasted training new workers, fixing their
>mistakes, etc.
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>If you wanted to do a small production run, CD-R would be the ideal
>medium. But I don't think I would be interested in burning batches of 500
>CD-Rs very frequently. At 4x burn, 200 MB would take about 8 minutes.
>Times 500 CDs makes 4000 minutes, or nearly 67 hours. If you spent six
>hours a day burning CDs, it would take 11 days, during which your PC is
>not available to be used for anything else. And then you still need to get
>inserts printed, CD-R labels printed, put the insert in the jewel case,
>put the label on the CD.. it gets very impractical for large runs.
>
>But if you were talking something like 80 CDs, it wouldn't be much of an
>inconvenience.
>
>On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Jon Olson wrote:
>> That's not really true...
>> cover art isn't important, and if i buy disks 10 each for my burner
>> they're only $1.70 a piece (this is of course, for the cheap verbatum
>> disks)...now you figure a commericial place could do it for half
>> that...$.85 each...that seems like a pretty good deal to me...and as for
>> unsold cd's...make it like a subscription thing...if you sign up, they
>> bill it to a cc# and send you the disk, plain and simple.
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>Greg Hill
>greg-hill@bigfoot.com
>www.comports.com/link
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