ive noticed a lot of you guys on here sell your beat tapes on bandcamp in cassette form, ive copped a few from some of the board members and i always wondered.
Where do you buy your blank colored cassettes?

How do you get those stickers/art work for the cassettes and case?

Do you copy all the cassettes yourself with a tape deck?

Is this a process you handle yourselves or do you have your independent label handle all of that?

You could use a company, like: http://www.inthepockettapes.com/

Or, you could look for color blank cassette tapes in bulk and do it yourself.
I like having a company so you get a professional printed product. Quality product sells.
Do the math at how much you want to make after spending and sell your tapes accordingly. Try a smaller run of like 50-100 at first, so you're not leftover with much stock sitting around.

Yea i mean i wanted to sell cassettes with the plastic cases and my own designed art work. I have no problem creating my designs from a template but everyone knows how expensive ink is.
Mostly wondering if anyone knew somewhere to get all the artwork and stickers for the cassettes done at one site. ya know just upload my art using their templates and they sent me back the sheets with my design so i can assemble my packages.

I know where to buy cassettes for bulk but theres no way i can use my own ink for the designs.
I was looking at these links. Any advice on which ones to get? or have a better site for my needs.

http://www.deltamedia.com//pg_blank_aud ... d=xiCjSV4g

Id be making copies using a double cassette deck..if thats a factor. The projects would probably be around 30-45 mins long.

Thanks for you help in advance

These people do cassette duplication and they also do imprinting on the tape and full color inserts:

http://www.commandproductions.com/Duplication/index.htm


I just Googled: cassette duplication +insert

You could do the same and find a list of others and shop for the one you want to work with.

cassetro.com is the cassette duplication division of National Audio Company, which is the biggest cassette manufacturer in the USA, they do all this for cheap... you can get 100 as minimum tho... but they will take your project from 100 to 100,000 if you need...
then if you want to make smaller runs you can contact:
http://crypticcarousel.com/duplication.html

This guy can make 50 tapes for $125 shipped, fast turn around 1-2 weeks, with artwork, cases, colored shell tapes, etc...

or you can try:
http://www.atozaudio.com

I am at this time working with Cassetro in making some cassingles, they turn around is the downpoint from 4 to 6 weeks since they are a big company and have LOTS of work, but my project is on the lineup already...

and I am also working in another project with Cryptic Carousel, I saw the pics he has in his FB and it looks like hes work is quality...

I didn't received any package yet since I just send all this a couple days ago, but I can trust they will do a great job because the pics they have online...

I also just bought my self a cassette duplicator, so maybe the next beat tapes I will duplicating the tapes my self, but I will be sending the artwork to print to a professional, that way you don't need to worry about ink cost, cutting papers, etc etc... it is better quality if you send it to a professional place and this people actually do not charge too much for it... of course, the biggest the amount you order, the cheaper you will pay x each