💭 how involved is it to press a CD

@miyuko You would typically outsource it to a company that does this stuff (they apparently still exist!); they will charge you a fixed cost to create a 'master', which is used as a 'stamp' to then press copies at high speed, at an additional per-unit cost.

Doing it yourself, I think, requires quite a lot of expensive equipment (which is why small-volume CDs usually get burned, not pressed).