Sonopress

Vinyl Pressing Plant · Gütersloh, Germany

Operating periodOpened 1957

LocationGütersloh, Germany

IdentificationStamped matrix details

Plant information and identification

Address					Opened 1957
Sonopress
Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 161F
S - 33332 Gutersloh
Germany

Tel: +49 5241 80-3287

Sonopress					Sonopress

The matrix details for all formats are stamped and are as follows ###### A-1/79S.
An example is A-4086 A-1/79S where A-4086 is the Sonopress catalogue #, A-1 is the side # and 79S is the year and
the S stands for Stereo. Made In Germany would be stamped randomly in the runouts.

7" pressing profile
Pressing characteristics	Outer stamping impression ring diameter 58mm and inner centre hole 38mm.
Example

7" Singles pressed at Sonopress
Format	Catalogue	Year	Release
7"	INT 111.520	1979	Are 'Friends' Electric ?
7"	INT 111.524	1979	Cars
7"	INT 111.534	1979	Complex
7"	INT 111.603	1980	We Are Glass
7"	INT 111.605	1980	I Die: You Die
7"	INT 111.607	1980	This Wreckage

12" pressing profile
Pressing characteristics	Outer stamping impression ring diameter 74mm and inner ring 32mm.
Example

12" Singles pressed at Sonopress
Format	Catalogue	Year	Release
12"	INT 126.501	1979	Are 'Friends' Electric ?
12"	INT 126.502	1979	Cars
12"	INT 126.600	1980	Remember I Was Vapour

LP pressing profile
Pressing characteristics	Outer stamping impression ring diameter 74mm and inner ring 32mm.
Example

LPs pressed at Sonopress
Format	Catalogue	Year	Release
LP	INT 146.510	1978	Tubeway Army
LP	27892-9	1979	Replicas (Club Sonderauflage)
LP	INT 146.519	1979	Replicas
LP	INT 146.510	1979	Tubeway Army Reissue
LP	INT 146.522	1979	The Pleasure Principle (Aves)
LP	304816	1979	The Pleasure Principle (B/B)
LP	INT 146.603	1980	Telekon
LP	INT 146.606	1981	Photograph

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Last Checked or Updated

13 September 2026

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