DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Spiffy CDs

Right...whoa dude!
The moment DSL will go 'BIG' it will be its demise...
And if John can't make the fancy cd available, too bad... enjoy it for what it is.
:cool:

Quote (tunesnake @ Oct. 08 2003,15:48)

[B]EXCUSE ME!
I am a new member, if you really want to get sellable CD's i would suggest a professional Run! I am a CD manufacturer, and if you had a really nice retail package i do believe that you could do Quite Well for moving DSL! Also you could partner with Router/Motherboard companies to include it free as a promotion! Think about this for a moment, CD's Retail Ready, Beautifull FULL COLOR printing on the CD, and a Very Nice looking Tri-Folded CD case Color Printed, Shrink Wrapped and Bar Coded for aroun $4.50 - 7.00 US (retail them around 9.99 and up). You can contact me via email if you have any more questions.

-Tunesnake

PS
Written 5 minutes after installing DSL on laptop. Damn i Love DSL

Personally I don't find the idea bad at all, but it is up to john to decide.

Quote (brotherscrim @ Oct. 07 2003,07:36)

It's a shame they don't make biz-card CDRWs - and not just for DSL, either. They're smaller than a floppy, they hold 50MB, and any computer that has a CD-ROM can read them.

I wouldn't mind paying a tenner for an 8cm cdrw, with nice artwork on it and one of those cute little thin jewel cases. that way I could remaster to my hearts content and still know which cd is the one with dsl on!

Sam

Well Woa! may be right if that is not the goal, but you could just buy a Small Full Color Laser Printer that you can print individualy and then ship them on a need to ship bases in a clear slip in protector, just make the graphic really nice! I can hook you up with a small desktop Laser Full Color Printer (around 130.00) the refills around 18. per color X4. You get around 800 disks per color i believe. I will find a brochure on the unit tosend ...........

-Tunesnake

Alright, there seems to be a fair amount of interest here. This is what I'm gonna do. I'll make a dozen blank CDs with a nice looking label and plastic cases for the discs and send them to John, free of charge. He can charge whatever he likes for them, as a "promo" or "deluxe" disc or whatever as a fundraiser. If they sell out really fast or something, I'll send John some more, but after the first dozen, I'll need to charge for them - just enough to cover my costs so I can buy more later, should it come to that (I currently have almost 100 of the damn things).

These discs will be the business card CD format, and I've already found the artwork I want to use. It's a really neat old picture of a circuit board. I intend to change the text on the chips so it looks like "Damn Small Linux" was printed on them instead of whatever was there to begin with. The image is a big one, and the one image will provide the background for a whole page of CD labels. That means that there will be 8 slightly different backgrounds. It makes my job easier, and it adds a little incentive to buying another disc later on.

If John or somebody else here decides to do something with this idea, then I might do something similar with 80mm CDRWs.

I'll keep you guys posted on how it's going. If I get some free time tonight, I can probably get these discs in the mail to John by next week.

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