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I'd lay odds the covers and CDs are not done on home equipment. It's surprisingly easy to get these covers made up. I was really curious too and went online and found there are a number of companies that manufacture these covers. They look very professional and you can get them as a gate-fold, mini-sleeve, whatever. Options for finishes and such are offered. I think the main demographic is indy bands who want to sell their own music to the public directly. I don't think they are all that expensive, relatively speaking, but I believe you'd have to place your order in some kind of multiple [[so you can't ask to just have one printed- or maybe you can...)
I'm guessing you'd download whatever artwork you want featured on the cover and inlays. Probably there is a page to format the type for any booklet you want as well. They also have a service to print artwork onto your CDs. You can do the same thing now with stickers. There are companies that will print your artwork onto stickers and they won't look cheap at all. I had a few made and was really impressed by how inexpensive that was.
I didn't really check prices at the time, but I thought it would be really great to have your own covers made up for your homemade cds, IF they allow one-off orders of one at a time.
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