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Printing CDs – How to make it easier

A fair percentage of our customers want a CD copy. My wife handles the admin side of the operation and is ending up spending a couple of evenings a week burning CDs, printing address labels and packing items for mailing the next day. It’s getting to be too much of a burden. At one point we almost decided to stop offering CDs as the money we made wasn’t worth the time and effort involved. We carried on though because we felt a percentage of people might not buy if they couldn’t get a CD.

We currently use an inkjet CD printer that takes a fair time to print a CD. We burn the CD contents using a normal CD writer on my wife’s PC. Any ideas on a cheap way of offloading CD production and mailing OR a way we can carry on doing the work ourselves but speed up the process?

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    Posted by MikeL on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 9:44 am. Filed under Business Software, Tech Talk. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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    1. Dipsy | December 16, 2009 at 10:17 am | Permalink

      I hear Blue typing, hes going to say get a cd duplicator / printer, you can put a stack of cds in them and it prints and burns. But the device is quite expensive, about £650 I think, new.

      And the ink is expensive.

      Blue got his off ebay, a bit cheaper and he often says what a great investment it was.

      I’ve played with the idea of doing this and found it too costly to go down this route.

      So I bought another cd printer and an external cd/dvd writer. I have it setup on a shelf downstairs with an old laptop. When I’m running low I set it going on a weekend and we change discs as were
      passing, you can set both the printer and drive to burn and print multiple copies, so all you have to do is put in another disc and or press page feed.

      It works quite well.

      I’ve also spent time over the year refining my ordering system, so all I have to do it put a sheet of label printer paper in and select all the new orders and it prints the labels and the packing
      slips all in one go.

      I guess I could put discs in cd mailers with stamps on ready, but that pay only takes me 10 minutes.

    2. MikeL | December 16, 2009 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

      Thanks, that’s a good tip. I found a 3 Cd duplicator/
      printer for about £200.

      I wonder whether my wife would like it as her Xmas
      present? :)

    3. Dipsy | December 17, 2009 at 7:21 am | Permalink

      Duplicator and printer for £200 ?

      Whats the URL ?

      Yes I’m sure she would he he

    4. MikeL | December 17, 2009 at 11:31 am | Permalink

      Sorry – I read the wrong spec.

      On this site: http://www.cd-writer.com/

      You can get CD duplicators for £200 exc VAT.
      and a CD duplicator/ printer for £286 exc VAT.

      Sounds a good deal for the potential time saved.

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