CD Pressing – Fast, High-Quality Production
We handle the entire process according to your needs and manage orders of any size.
Contact us today for a seamless and affordable end-to-end solution for your production.
Manufacturing at Dicentia – A Complete Solution
Together with our partner Sony DADC, we offer manufacturing of the highest quality, with high capacity and exceptional delivery reliability. This is complemented by our in-house graphic design department, which can help you develop everything from covers and packaging to printing directly onto the disc.
Do you need help with CD, DVD, or Blu-ray production? We handle the entire process—from concept to finished product.
CD pressing or CD duplication
When you want to produce a CD, you can choose between two methods: duplication or pressing. Here at Skivfabriken, we can help you with both options and guide you toward the right choice for your production.
We do all our CD duplication in-house in Stockholm.
For CD pressing, all of our manufacturing takes place in Austria. Therefore, you should expect a delivery time of about two weeks.
At the same time, printing delivers results that meet the highest quality standards in terms of print quality, paper selection, and durability.
Here at Skivfabriken, we’re known for being Sweden’s fastest CD pressing service. Once you’ve approved the proof, we’ll make sure you receive your discs within 10 business days. Need them sooner? Then you can choose our CD and DVD duplication service, where we deliver in as little as 3 business days.
From the moment you place your order until your order is delivered, you’ll receive personalized service every step of the way. We handle all communication with the factory, review your original artwork and print files, and help you make any necessary adjustments. This way, we can guarantee that your order will turn out exactly as you envisioned.
If you need smaller runs or extra-fast delivery, we can produce and duplicate CDs and DVDs right here at our factory in Stockholm—often with a delivery time of just a few days.
- Help with album covers
- Physical test pressure
- Invoice due in 30 days
- Fast delivery times
CD pressing in Sweden and Europe
Since the early 2000s, no factory in Sweden has offered CD pressing. That is why we partner with Europe’s largest and most reliable supplier of pressed discs. We have chosen this factory with great care to meet our own and our customers’ high standards for print quality, paper selection, and production capacity. We know that there are significant differences in quality between different production runs, which is why our choice of supplier is a key part of our commitment to providing you with the highest quality.
Vinyl
If you’re interested in pressing a vinyl record, check out our page on vinyl. We can help you with a wide range of creative options, sleeves, and layouts. Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Delivery Times
After approval of the original, the disks will be delivered to you within 10 working days.
If you want the disks faster, go to CD copying
Prices
Take a look at our online shop. There we have listed the prices and delivery times for our most common productions
Do you have any questions?
Sometimes it can be hard to know exactly which product you’re looking for. Just give us a call or send us an email, and we’ll help you right away.
- Help with album covers
- Invoice due in 30 days
- Fast delivery times
CD copying
CD-Rs (‘Compact Disc-Recordable’) are writable discs on which information can be stored using a so-called ‘burner’ or CD writer. Data is stored on the disk using a more powerful laser that burns the information into the disk by applying a layer of ink to the laser beam. The information can then be read by a normal CD-ROM drive.
CD copying uses blank professional CD-Rs, with a white printable surface. The discs are fed into a dedicated CD robot, which consists of a number of CD burners and a printing unit for printing CDs.
The CDs or DVDs are fed into the various burners and burned in a similar way to how you burn a CD on your own computer. After a disc is burned, it is verified to ensure that the copy is identical to the original. If the record is approved, it will be printed with the chosen print.
Don’t forget to notify the NCB
To be allowed to press a CD production with us, you must register your edition with NCB. You can find more information on this on the page How to report to the NCB.
Nowadays, CD press is cheap. Particularly with larger volumes, you get a very low unit cost.
The reason that CD pressing is cheap is that it uses a production method that is based on first producing an original for the discs, a so-called glass master. This involves an initial cost that is more expensive than copying, but if the series is larger than 500 pieces, CD pressing is usually the cheapest method of producing CDs and DVDs.
The glass master is then used as a forming press to press the sheets. The advantages of pressing discs are that the quality is very good and the production costs are low once the volume is reached.
