New, the Finebilt press cost between $6,000 and $8,000 and included the extruder. The last Finebilt press was made just after Lened came out with the first automatic record press in 1962-63. As a manual press, the Finebilt is very rudimentary and basic though still fabulously effective.

You can press your own vinyl with a cut lathe process with various sizes, colors, and price ranges at Impress vinyl. Pressing vinyl records with more copies will lessen the overall price per copy. The minimum order to press a vinyl record varies in multiple pressing plants.

A record press is a machine for manufacturing vinyl records. It is essentially a hydraulic press fitted with thin nickel stampers which are negative impressions of a master disc. Labels and a pre-heated vinyl patty (or biscuit) are placed in a heated mold cavity. Two stampers are used, one for each of side of the disc.