It seems to me that we could have them "pressed" for considerably less time and
money. A gold blank is about a buck, right? I didn't think that professional
pressing and silk screening was much more. The real question is the quantities
required. Does anyone else have pricing information on pressing CD's? I'll see
what I can find out on this end. How many CD's do we want?
mike ledoux wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> >>We talked a little about doing this (burning CDs) on Mon. We'd need a
> >>dedicated machine, and pre-setup to burn images. Another issue was
> >>the time required to do a single burn (what's the common time to burn
> >>a CD these days?)
> >I don't really know. Obviously it depends upon the amount of data being
> >burned. A 100MB cd will burn faster than a 500MB (probably about 5 times
> >faster :)
>
> My 2x burner makes a full CD (650MB) in about 35 minutes. A 4x burner
> will do that same disc in about 18 minutes. The 8x burner at work
> does a full CD in about 10 minutes. I can volunteer my machine and
> myself to operate it for the show.
>
> >I think to burn a RH iso image, we may be looking at a significant amount of
> >time, possibly too much to actually do it at the show. Though we could do
> >this ahead of time and make it worth our while. I was going to volunteer my
> >burner to do this with (the pre-burning) until I realized it's not working :(
> >Hopefully I'll have this fixed soon.
>
> The RH 6.2 iso is pretty close to a full 650MB, so unless someone has
> an 8x or faster burner, one probably won't be adequate. I could make
> up some discs ahead of time if that is necessary.
>
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