Producing a Boxed Set? 43
Roger Cox asks: "You've probably seen them in the 'cheap cd' section at your local store. They are all over the place anymore. Box Sets. CDs/DVDs in a nicely designed 'box'. I happen to work for a music group overseas who has out 5 full length albums out in the US. With the band's permission I was given the ok to put the 5 releases in a box set format. Despite how readily available box sets appear to be at stores, where does one go online to get pricing for such a box. Almost an entire week of researching this with search engines has turned up nothing but junk. The problem is 'box' appears to be widely associated with cardboard shipping boxes, which also are available to be 'custom printed'. I figure if I can buy a 2 DVD box set of the Little Rascals at Walmart for $5.88, it should not be this hard to find a source to do the packaging. Any pointers?"
Re:Interst does not indicate worth (Score:3, Insightful)
Searching for box sets..... (Score:1)
You're welcome. Drive through.
Google-fu must be practiced. (Score:1, Informative)
In this case, -cardboard, with the additions of custom and cd [google.com] were enough. No where near as specific as I could have been, but 6th on the list [paramountsw.com] seems to be a winner.
A little more refinement let's a few others worth considering (like these guys) [cd-duplica...turing.com].
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Box is so overused (Score:2, Funny)
People use 'box' for so many things. Reminds me of my favorite bumper sticker:
MY GIRLFRIEND CAN'T WRESTLE
BUT YOU SHOULD SEE HER BOX!
I don't know if this will help. (Score:4, Informative)
Assuming you want reasonable quantities (like maybe 100,000), go to www.smythco.com, or call them and ask for sales.
Disclosure, I work for them.
Re:You know those IBM commercials? (Score:1)
When I say "not online" I really mean "no retail web presence".
Re:idea (Score:1, Funny)
Re:idea (Score:1, Offtopic)
Ohmigawd that's funny!!
(In this context anyway.
If I get mod points any time soon I'll come back and mod you up!
Re:idea (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:idea (Score:2)
You can then go ahead and mod whereupon you receive a warning stating that your comments will be removed, which would be fine in this case because I hadn't commented anywhere else in this article. Et voila'!
Try a local printing shop. (Score:2)
A Wiliiam Shatner Boxed Set? (Score:1)
Try This (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Try This (Score:3, Informative)
Not saying the case you mention has these faults, though I'd get a sample first just to be careful.
Clue by four (Score:2)
jewelboxing and burgopak (Score:4, Informative)
Re:jewelboxing (Score:4, Informative)
Digibox / Digipack (Score:2)
Talk to a printing press... (Score:2, Informative)
Most of the time it's just a matter of designing around a template, then sending it off to press. They will handle the assembly.
Problem solved! (Score:1, Informative)
Call Discmakers (Score:2, Informative)
No, I'm not affiliated with them in any way, no kickbacks, nothing. I do know the owner of the place, though, and he's a very honest guy. A lot of people in the CD manufacturing industry are not.
The answer to your searching woes (Score:1)
It's that simple.
8cm discs? (Score:2)
"anymore" (Score:1)
All you need to know about Box Sets (Score:2)
01234567890123456789 I never thought that you would love me the way that you do.
01234567890123456789 I never thought that you would love me half as much as I do.
01234567890123456789 You say you wanna know everything about me. Well here you go.
01234567890123456789 You say you couldn't live your life without me. I don't know.
01234567890123456789 But if you want it girl, you've got it,
01234567890123456789 it's all right here,
01234567890123456789 in my box set.
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YASFJC (Yet Another Source For Jewel Cases) (Score:2)
Digipack (Score:2)
Most boxed sets are made using Digipacks [digipack.com]. I have tons of Digipack CDs and one five disc box set (Iced Earth's Dark Genesis) Digipack. They can do basically anything you want. A standard four discs on the outer two panels with a book in the middle and a fifth disc stored on the back page of the book (like the Iced Earth box set) is certainly doable (all bound into one nice box with four color printing on the entire thing and with an outer protecting box). It can't be terribly expensive because the Iced Earth
Print Broker (Score:2)
Try the people who did "Little Rascals" (Score:1)