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CD duplicating company recomendation?
balidey - 4/1/10 at 08:13 AM

For my work I have done a project and created a document on CD, now I need a few copies doing so I bought blank discs and the sticky labels but the boss now says he wants 40 to 50 doing, and I would rather farm this out to a company to do it. I can't be arsed burning 50 copies on my machine.

First quote I had from our local printing company was... sit down for this.... over £300 for 50 discs. This does include front and back CD inlays, but I would prefer a slim cd case, so only need a front cover and disc face printing.

Can anyone recomend a company that can do this? I am based in Peterborough, but I suppose they could be mail ordered.

I would rather have a recomendation than just use the first result from a Google search

Thanks in advance.

James - 4/1/10 at 08:34 AM

I'll do it for £275.



Cheers,
James

balidey - 4/1/10 at 08:40 AM

quote:
Originally posted by James
I'll do it for £2.75



Cheers,
James

Deal (slight editing above)

MikeR - 4/1/10 at 09:00 AM

Techpoint / Duplidata in Blackpool. My company uses them and they're very good - although I've no idea of price but we do thousands of CD's a year with them and they're very flexible (perhaps due to us doing thousands of CD's with them).

Give Ian a call on 01253 892333.

(I can never remember if the company is called Techpoint / Duplidata as we refer to them by both names interchangeably here).

Worzey - 4/1/10 at 09:08 AM

That figure doesn't sound too unreasonable (maybe a bit on the expensive side).

Don't forget it's the setup that cost the most and 30 odd disks is a very small number for a duplication company.

If you wanted 30,000 the cost per disk would be much cheaper.

balidey - 4/1/10 at 09:26 AM

Just waiting for a quote back from Techpoint / Duplidata now.

iank - 4/1/10 at 10:26 AM

Might be worth talking to some USB memory companies about distributing it that way. MOQ's are about 50.
Will cost more per copy but no printing costs and people really like getting them and will continue to use them (and show your company logo) where a CDROM just gets chucked into a drawer at best.

Edit: The one at the top of google's list
http://www.usb-flashdrive.co.uk/category.html?cid=23&gclid=CITTusnCip8CFR9o4wodF1rtIQ



[Edited on 4/1/10 by iank]

balidey - 4/1/10 at 10:35 AM

I did look into the USB sticks, but cost is a premium.
We are suppliers to this company (Major high street supermarket beginning with T) and the CD is for their use, its not like I need a promo item. So that rules out the USB stick.

Also got a quote back from who MikeR suggested, well under half the original price.

Now just waiting for my 'middle management bosses' to give me the go ahead. But already within 5 mins of the finished CD being ready to copy somone has stuck their flipping nose in saying 'it would be good if we could include this'..... ARGH

iank - 4/1/10 at 10:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by balidey
I did look into the USB sticks, but cost is a premium.
We are suppliers to this company (Major high street supermarket beginning with T) and the CD is for their use, its not like I need a promo item.

Fair enough, though on the counterpoint the people in "T"'s would get a warm fuzzy about your company every time they use their freebie. (that's people for you)
Don't know if you are/have a sales/marketing group but I bet they pay a sum in excess of your duplication costs on the wine/beer/feed budget every meeting they have with a customer like that...
quote:

So that rules out the USB stick.

Also got a quote back from who MikeR suggested, well under half the original price.

Now just waiting for my 'middle management bosses' to give me the go ahead. But already within 5 mins of the finished CD being ready to copy somone has stuck their flipping nose in saying 'it would be good if we could include this'..... ARGH


Haha, be prepared for that up to and after you've got the box back from the duplicator

mad4x4 - 4/1/10 at 02:50 PM

If you only need about 256 MB of Memory then the sticks could be a cheaper option. A 256 MB stick (or even a 512MB) stick will cost about £4 and you could copy then with a wee dos batch script to format it and then copy the files on.