Precision Record Pressing

Note: do not confuse with the unrelated Precision Record Pressing, Inc., active the 1960s and '70s. Please do not use this company for releases produced before 2017.

Record pressing plant (20,000 square foot) located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, that officially opened May 11, 2017. It is a joint venture (50-50 ownership) between Canadian company Isotope Music Inc, founded by Gerald McGhee, and Czech company GZ Media.

In March 2016, Canadian vinyl broker Samo Media merged with Precision Record Pressing, becoming their sales and service branch located in Toronto.

Most of cutting and all plating and test pressings production is done at GZ Media and runout etchings will look very similar to records pressed at GZ Media.

The presence of Precision Record Pressing ordering identifiers, i.e. a number that begins with 10- followed by five or six digits (example 10-83451), is not enough to determine pressing. For vinyl records with both GZ Media and Precision Record Pressing indicators present in runouts, credit Precision Record Pressing with "Manufactured By" and credit GZ Media with "Mastered At" (reflecting plating).

This is true independent of the presence or absence of any "Made in Canada" and/or "Made in Czech Republic" stickers or printing on releases. (Stickers can be listed in the notes section; actually different printing on jackets merits separate releases, but should not be used to derive pressing).