[Lugcomms] OpenCDs for SFD, installfests and other events

Tue Apr 8 12:34:32 UTC 2008

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 at 09:26, Donna Benjamin <donna at mel8ourne.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If we were to arrange a bulk job of Open CDs - how many would you want?
>
> The price gets cheaper and cheaper the more you do... so it might be
> worth getting a whole heap done and posting them around the country.
>
> I've got a quote for less than $0.50 per disc, pressed, printed and in a
> sleeve - but that's for 10s of 1000's.
>
> Doing them in lots of 1000 - 5000 tends to cost around $0.70
>
> - Donna

For the Education Expo, I obtained a quote from a company here in Sydney, 
Media Movers. The price was $650 for 1000 discs - pressed, colour printed, 
inserted into a clear plastic sleeve and delivered in the Sydney area. I 
could negotiate having a printed cardboard sleeve. Delivery fees are standard 
courier rates, but I think we can arrange something there as well.

They are keen to take up my suggestion of a proper business relationship, 
which should make things easier for us in the future as we won't need to go 
shopping around and experimenting with new vendors.

Here's a note I sent to the LA Council about this, including the official 
quote from Media Movers.

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: CD replication
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:52
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com>
To: Linux Australia Committee <committee at linux.org.au>

Hi Council,

I have been in discussion with some CD replication companies about doing a CD 
run for the Education Expo. We also talked about forming a proper 
partnership. To repeat part of a post I made to the LA list on Monday, I can 
see several possible benefits from this:

* no need to go shopping each time we need to get discs
* we know the vendor is good as we've used them before
* both LA and the vendor will save time as we know each other
* we can negotiate better pricing, perhaps with a little cross-promotion

Most impressive was Media Movers. Below is a summary from them of our 
negotiations. They were very open to a partnership, and responded quickly to 
my initial enquiry. Their quote (see attached PDF) includes the following:

* CD Replication for 1000 discs
* Full colour offset printing on the discs
* Insertion of each disc into a clear plastic sleeve (no manual stuffing!)

For this, they quoted a price of $650. We also discussed delivery of the discs 
and the inclusion of printed cardboard sleeves in lieu of clear plastic ones. 
I think we can either get these for no extra cost or a for relatively minor 
fee.

In return, they ask (but not require) for their logo to be printed on each 
disc. I think this is a tiny price to pay for a beneficial business 
relationship, and I think I am going to take this offer for the Education 
Expo.

Cheers,
Sridhar

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Quote for CDs
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:46
From: "Steve Salakas" <steve at mediamovers.com.au>
To: sridhar at dhanapalan.com

Hello Sridhar,

Thank you very much for contacting Media Movers for your CD quote and to
take the time to discuss the initiatives under way at Linux Australia.
Please find attached to this email your official quote as per our phone
conversation. Sridhar, if your require samples of our CD print quality
and plastic sleeves, I am only too pleased to send you some samples.
Standard turnaround time for this project will take 8-10 working days
from receipt of master and artwork to complete.

The costs we have attached are below our regular trade prices to help
assist Linux Australia. If we are successful with working worth you on
this project and future projects it would be great to have our logo
printed on each of the disk face titles however this is not compulsory.

I have my contact details listed below, so please do not hesitate to
contact me if you require further information.

Warm Regards

Steve Salakas 
Client Relationship Manager 

Media Movers - Your Digital Media Solution
p: +61 (02) 9699 9933
m: +61 (0431) 708 537
f   +61 (02) 9699 9499
P   PO Box 6168, Alexandria, NSW 2015
A  Unit 3, 4 Huntley St, Alexandria, NSW 2015
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