The minimum CD run is 500, but it is more cost
effective to have 1000 units, though if extensive promotion is required, this amount
will not generally be sufficient.
Whenever a product is manufactured on CD or
cassette, the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society have to be advised and an
application for a license to manufacture completed. This ensures that revenue is collected
by the MCPS from the label manufacturing the recordings and passed on to the copyright
owner of the song generally the music publisher and thereafter passed to the composer. We
will complete this paperwork on your behalf.
To enable us
to manufacture, we require the recorded work either on a PQ master 16/10, 16/30, exabyte
or CDR. We can also work from a normalised DAT master recording. Artwork should carry the
information relating to the artiste/s, musical copyright references, publisher engineer
and studio credits, name and logo of your label (we can arrange the logo if required), a
catalogue number and a bar code number, Both of which we will supply as part of our
manufacturing process.
It is obviously important that all this
information is checked thoroughly since, once we have transferred this to film, all the
paper parts are then printed. Any errors would involve new films and fresh printing. To
enable us to be competitive on pricing for all the processing involved, we pay all our
suppliers on order This gives us preferential rates and almost instant access to
manufacturing plants.