Mark Harrison wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 20:49 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> Rob, > > As it happens, I was with a disk publisher today sorting out a new > audiobook series I've done for them. > > Sadly, they don't do duplication for other people, just their own stuff, > but given I was getting the "factory tour" I spent a bit of time in the > "production room." > > They have moved AWAY from the cheap disks, and moved onto the Sony ones... > > ... because in the last million they produced on Sony media, 6 failed ! > > The break-point in producing glass masters seems to be around the 500 > disk mark - beneath that, big robotic duplication machines that are > basically a stack of DVD-R drivers, a printer, and a robot arm to move > disks between them (about 6 drives per printer seems to be the balance > for speed purposes) are the way they go. > > The biggest cost they were facing was full-colour printing, which > actually cost MORE than the disks themselves. They've, again, moved to a > high-end system that literally has 7 "ink wells" connected to the beast > by tubes that they literally refill from bottles live. > > Oh, and the fancy machines also connected to a 4 Tb over Gb ethernet, so > they could just pick any image, enter the number they wanted produced, > and click "go". > > I was, it must be admitted envious :-) > > M. > Nice, bet it was an interesting tour. I tried doing a small run of Ubuntu & OpenCD discs for a local event, just doing 200 discs took ages. It wasn't the burning itself that took a while but the swapping of discs, that was before printing. If this project I'm working on goes off we'll need a few thousand discs I think. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
