Automated CD replication company, no minimum 1.75 each

i think kaini posted their name awhile back but ive forgotten and google is no help.

company is completely automated and web based. you dl their software and design CD yourself and once you pay money the machines take over and you get your CDs shrink wrapped in the mail w/ bar code ready for sale, presumably. all units are $1.75 and there were no minimums. company name was Konuri or Koyuki..something like that.

help

and p.s. has anyone here dealt with them? how's the finished product? etc.

if i did, i have no recollection of it.

does kcinsu still post here? it may have been him. i get you both confused sometimes, no offense. i dont know why.

  On 3/8/2010 at 6:13 AM, plok said:

and p.s. has anyone here dealt with them? how's the finished product? etc.

It's kunaki.com and their prices have dropped to $1.00 each - the quality is fantastic, full color high-res printing everywhere. Also your master CD is uploaded as a bit-by- bit image, no MP3 junk. They are the only way to handle CDs in the 21st century: no upfront money, no stock to store, no money tied up in boxes upon boxes of discs.

  On 3/8/2010 at 7:05 AM, SecondaryCell said:

  On 3/8/2010 at 6:13 AM, plok said:

and p.s. has anyone here dealt with them? how's the finished product? etc.

 

It's kunaki.com and their prices have dropped to $1.00 each - the quality is fantastic, full color high-res printing everywhere. Also your master CD is uploaded as a bit-by- bit image, no MP3 junk. They are the only way to handle CDs in the 21st century: no upfront money, no stock to store, no money tied up in boxes upon boxes of discs.

you sir, are my hero. thank you

THANK YOU! this is shit hot yo

so these are actually replicated glass mastered CDs NOT Cdrs?

I thought it was economically-impossible to do short runs of glass-mastered CDs, so I'm thinking that they are probably doing CD-Rs, but I'd love to be proved wrong.

Anyone?

edit: here we are:

http://kunaki.com/answers.htm

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1.11 Does Kunaki replicate (press) or duplicate discs?

Kunaki duplicates discs. Duplication has made major strides over the last few years. Today mediocre duplication is superior to bad replication. And superior duplication is better than mediocre replication. Lastly, superior duplication is every bit as good as the best replication.

Duplication means they are CD-Rs. e.g. see here: Duplication vs Replication

Their site is pretty vague about the whole thing, apart from that cryptic comment I could find no mention of it. Which is a bit naughty of them.

On the upside, their prices still seem very good for short-run duplication of CD-Rs with artwork etc.

i mean that was my thought too it sounds too good to be true if they are indeed CDs, Cdrs though that's still a good price. I'd like to see the print quality on the surface of the Cds first though, that can make or break the value of doing something like this

agree

are these just printed white CD-Rs? or are they "real" CDs?

there is no actual picture of the CD or DVD itself only from the cover artwork

I found this on google by typing "kunaki"

that either looks like a high quality silk screen job or a sticke/label, im hoping it's the former

  On 3/8/2010 at 10:30 PM, o00o said:

are these just printed white CD-Rs? or are they "real" CDs?

They are CD-Rs, see my post above.

I did this once.

They are real CD's.

I still have my RPM 2008 one I printed 50 copies of it.

They even send you a preview disc for free that you can use to judge if you want to order them or not.

sounds pretty good, im going to try using them

  On 3/9/2010 at 12:20 AM, acid1 said:

I did this once.

 

They are real CD's.

 

I still have my RPM 2008 one I printed 50 copies of it.

 

They even send you a preview disc for free that you can use to judge if you want to order them or not.

can you do things like print only parts of the cd so the blank surface to the cd is visible?

like this:

They are CDRs, but they are so high quality that the average user will not notice the difference. The discs that Kuanki uses are a silvery color and look very close to a "pressed" CD. If you use 300dpi files the printing will look incredible - plus they are shrink wrapped and you get a free bar code which will get you into iTunes, Amazon, etc. They also offer two sales pages for each release, one for credit/debit card purchases and the other for Paypal. You can choose to be paid by check or Paypal if you want to use these sales pages. I don't bother with that, I just order CDs at wholesale and have them drop shipped to the customer.

Also, I forgot to mention that they manufacture DVDs for the same price. Plus you can choose a jewel case or DVD case interchangeably for either CD or DVD.

The only downside is that the company considers itself a machine and to create a release you need to do everything in a very strict Kunaki fashion, for example:

- prepare your release with Kunaki proprietary software (free at their site) which is Windows only. (I have been able to successfully create CDs on a Mac using Virtual PC)

- Once the release is created and uploaded to Kunaki there can be no changes such as updating artwork, swapping out a track, etc. The only option is to delete that release and recreate/upload a new version (which can take up to 2 or 3 hours depending on you connection speed.)

- Support by phone is nonexistent, you can only contact them via email if you expect to get any kind of response.

So yeah, you have to treat the company like you are working with a machine, you wont find any sort of human interaction. That said, I have been using them for around 5 years and have never had a single problem with any CD after it was created. The only difficulty is that sometimes, depending on your graphics things may print differently than expected. I just did a release with a weird sort of turquoise blue and it took four uploads/deletions/test copies to get it to print the way I wanted.

wow,, nice!