P3D Re: 3-D CD project

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John W Roberts wrote:

> ..., but this ignores the tooling, production of the
> master, and the enormous amount of work that went into designing the CD.

AND

Tom Deering wrote:

> Have you priced this?  I have.  You might be able to get the cost of a
> pressed silver CD down to a buck if you bought several thousand.  But in
> the quantity we're talking here, the costs would be way higher.  I'm trying
> to figure out how he's doing it so cheaply.

For all of you who might think I am producing a mastered disc, then
having an external production house press copies, I am not. The costs
were FAR TOO PROHIBITIVE considering the small scale of the project. 

In fact, I am preparing a master version of the data on my HD, and will
use that to burn the CD's one by one on my computer here at home. I have
been printing the special CD labels here at home as well. Both of these
parts of the project are extremely time consuming... But, even with that
consideration, it is still cheaper this way. In fact, were in not for
being able to burn it at home, this project would not be happening.

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


------------------------------