Graphic Design Tutorial for Silkscreen Printing CD and DVD
CD and DVD manufacturing, print and packaging involves a lot of technology and complicated equipment, so it does seem kind of unusual that such an ‘old school’ method like Silkscreen Printing is still so viable for CD and DVD printing.
Precision Disc offers both CMYK Offset Printing and Silkscreen Printing for our CD and DVD discs, and there’s no doubt that Silkscreen Printing is still the best choice for *some* types of disc designs. Unfortunately there is an inherent difficulty with using such an old school style of print, in the fact that so very few graphic designers are experienced with it and know (A) what the limitations of Silkscreen Printing discs are, and (B) how to properly set-up their design files for Silkscreen Printing discs.
The largest single issue we experience is colour separations… or lack thereof… so we have created a very simple tutorial to get your graphic design started in the right direction.
Additional aspects of graphic design for Silkscreen Printing CD and DVD discs will be covered in later installments, which will include the use of bitmap images, designing using colours that are less than 100% solid, and specifying the correct colour values for Silkscreen Printing on CDs and DVDs.
As always, before beginning the graphic design for your CD and DVD duplication or CD and DVD replication project, follow our artwork specifications and use our design templates – that on its own will help you avoid the most commonly made mistakes!
