A Factory Sample

{{Infobox album

| name = A Factory Sample

| type = ep

| artist = Various artists

| cover = A Factory Sampler.png

| alt =

| released = 24 January 1979{{cite book | last1 = Hook | first1 = Peter | author-link1 = Peter Hook | title = Unknown Pleasures | publisher = Simon & Schuster | year = 2012 | pages = 208 | isbn = 978-1-4711-4833-0}}https://www.discogs.com/release/11395-Various-A-Factory-Sample?srsltid=AfmBOoqs-9TuLhV7eVwYCqTS4YV3pkdUo-h6hbMZK4trnqOTRbJv_hYO

| recorded = July and October 1978

| venue =

| studio = * Cargo, Rochdale, England

• Western Works, Sheffield, England

| genre = Post-punk, industrial, comedy

| length = 27:40

| label = Factory

| producer = Martin Zero, Laurie Latham, C.P. Lee and Cabaret Voltaire

| chronology = Joy Division singles and EPs

| prev_title = An Ideal for Living

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = Transmission

| next_year = 1979

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = The Durutti Column

| type = EP

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| title = A Factory Sample

| year = 1978

| next_title = The Return of the Durutti Column

| next_year = 1980

}}

{{Extra chronology

| artist = John Dowie

| type = EP

| prev_title = Another Close Shave

| prev_year = 1977

| title = A Factory Sample

| year = 1978

| next_title = It's Hard to be an Egg

| next_year = 1981

}}

{{Extra chronology

| artist = Cabaret Voltaire

| type = EP

| prev_title = Extended Play

| prev_year = 1978

| title = A Factory Sample

| year = 1978

| next_title = Baader-Meinhof" / "Sex in Secret

| next_year = 1979

}}

}}

A Factory Sample is a 7-inch double sampler EP released in January 1979 by Factory Records of Manchester, England. Funded by a small inheritance which had recently been bequeathed to Tony Wilson,Touching From a Distance. {{ISBN|978-0-571-17445-4}} p. 68 it was the first vinyl recording to be released by the label, assigned the catalogue number FAC-2 (FAC 1 was a concert at The Factory). The cover of the EP is made of rice paper, dyed silver and sealed inside a thin plastic bag.

The Joy Division tracks were later re-released on the band's 1988 compilation album Substance.

The Cabaret Voltaire tracks were later re-released on the 1990 double disc rarities compilation Listen Up with Cabaret Voltaire.{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Cabaret-Voltaire-Listen-Up-With-Cabaret-Voltaire/master/3193 |title=Cabaret Voltaire - Listen Up With Cabaret Voltaire at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-15}}