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At Precision Disc we have two standard print solutions for our replicated CD and DVD discs – up to six spot-colour silkscreen printing as well as CMYK offset printing.

While silkscreen printing is definitely ‘old school’ technology, when compared to CMYK offset printing spot-colour silkscreen printing can still provide superior print results for some designs. We won’t get too involved in the graphic design aspect within this article but we do have other resource material available on the topic of graphic design.
 

 
The benefits of silkscreen printing on CD or DVD

Silkscreen printing spot-colours for CD and DVD utilizes pigmented inks with a gloss finish. This is different than CMYK offset printing which utilizes translucent inks and has more of a matte finish.

Due to the consistency of the pigmented spot-colour inks they provide better and more consistent coverage for large areas of solid colour and, additionally, the gloss finish is very appealing to the eye.

Basic design rules for silkscreen printing on CD or DVD

As noted above, when compared to CMYK offset printing, silkscreen printing can provide superior print results for some designs… some, but not all. The best results generally come from artwork that is designed as follows:

• Maximum of six colours (including white flood)
• Using line art – not bitmaps.
• Utilizing large areas of solid colour.
• Graphics that are bold and don’t feature a lot of fine detail.
• Text that is relatively bold – not small or featuring fine detail.
• Avoiding drop-shadows and other effects that feature less than 100% solid colour.
• Don’t use Photoshop as it outputs graphics and text as bitmaps – not line art.

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. as your factory-direct partner for CD DVD manufacturing and CD DVD duplication along with eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. Our offices and manufacturing facility are located in Surrey, BC (a suburb of Vancouver) and we ship to clients throughout Canada and the U.S. daily.
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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. has Sensormatic Security Tags available for insertion into the cases for your CD manufacturing or DVD manufacturing project.

Commonly referred to as Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) tags we can supply you with Sensormatic “Ultra Strip” tags.

“Sensormatic” is the worldwide leader in industry-leading EAS solutions backed by more than 1,500 patents and is utilized by the countless companies and organizations around the world to reduce product losses. Today, over 80 percent of the world’s top 200 retailers that use EAS rely on Sensormatic solutions.

The Sensormatic “Ultra Strip” tags are designed to provide the highest level of anti-shoplifting protection in a retail environment using the smallest tag size possible.

The Ultra Strip III Low Profile tag measures just 1.76” in length x 0.4” in width x 0.047” thick, and is placed inside the CD or DVD case. The exact location of the tag is dependent on the type of case and the amount of room available. It features a lower cavity height, requiring the label to be placed on a rigid substrate.

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory-direct CD manufacturing and DVD manufacturing services with eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. Located in Surrey, British Columbia (a suburb of Vancouver), we ship to clients throughout Canada and the U.S. daily.

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Precision Disc recognizes our responsibility as a good corporate citizen and global citizen, so we have invested in the equipment, processes and materials to provide sustainable and environmentally-friendly printing solutions for our clientele. The bulk of the work we do is printed digitally… and for good reason.

The evolution of digital printing has revolutionized the printing industry. While traditional offset printing is considered an industrial process, digital printing is a computerized process – which by its very nature is less wasteful and less demanding on resources compared to conventional print. Less waste + less consumption = a more environmentally friendly method of printing.

Digital printing has eliminated many stages of traditional printing that were time, energy and resource-consuming. This includes processes that were accompanied by liquid waste, solid waste and fumes – some of which actually require specialist treatment for disposal. Additionally, digital printing eliminates the use of chemistry for film and plate processing, as well as the substantial waste of materials used in the ‘make ready’ stage of offset printing.

Digital Printing Eliminates ‘Make Ready’

With an offset printer you cannot simply press a button and immediately begin printing. Time is required to prepare the machine to run a specific job which includes a lot of wasteful ‘test’ printing onto paper. This isn’t simply down-time for the machine as the time and expense of the make-ready process is passed through to the client in the cost of the finished goods.

With digital printing there isn’t any ‘make ready’ required and, due to this, digital printing allows for much shorter run lengths and quicker turnaround times. This in turn leads to less consumption and waste – it is estimated that prior to the advent of digital printing over 50 percent of all print was thrown away unused.

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. as your factory-direct partner for quality DVD CD manufacturing and DVD CD duplication along with a great selection of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. Located in Surrey, BC (a suburb of Vancouver) we ship to clients throughout Canada and the USA each day.

In combination with the Alberta Music Industry Association (AMIA), Precision Disc’s “CDwest.ca” brand is pleased to announce a CD Digipak Prize Giveaway to AMIA members in good standing.

The prize package has a retail value of approximately $1,200.00 and consists of the following:

• 300 CD Digipak
  Professionally replicated CDs with full colour print, CS1000 style CD digipak, clear or black tray, full colour CMYK (4/0), all set-ups, assembly, pre-press, barcode and wrap included.
• 100 Posters
  11” x 17” posters, printed CMYK (4/0).
• 200 Stickers
  3” x 3” posters, square corners, printed CMYK (4/0) – not for outdoor use.

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory-direct CD DVD manufacturing, CD DVD duplication, and eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. Our replication plant and offices are located in Surrey, BC (a suburb of Vancouver) and we ship product to clients throughout Canada and the United States each day.

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DVD CD Disc Recycling Program

DVD and CD Duplication company Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. has launched a new program to keep your unwanted DVD and CD discs and cases out of your local landfill. With the knowledge that these items are not accepted by most community curbside recycling services, Precision Disc will recycle these materials for you as a part of their existing in-house recycling program.

“It’s a simple yet effective program.” explains the DVD and CD duplication company’s Vice President Bruce Durnie, “I’m not aware of any community-based recycling programs that accept CDs, DVDs and their plastic cases, so what are people doing when they want to get rid of them? If you throw them into the garbage they just end up in your local land-fill. To prevent that from happening you can now send those materials to us and we’ll recycle them through our existing in-house recycling program and channels.”

As a DVD and CD duplication company, Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory-direct disc manufacturing services along with a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions for their clients throughout Canada and the USA.

Durnie continues, “As a company that specializes in DVD and CD duplication we recognize our responsibility to be a good global citizen so we’ve been putting a strong emphasis on utilizing environmentally-friendly equipment, materials and processes for quite some time. We don’t just talk-the-talk when it comes to being environmentally responsible so we’re always looking for new ways to enhance what we’ve already put in place and this DVD CD recycling program is a good example of our efforts to make a difference.”

Three Steps To Recycle Your Unwanted CDs and DVDs:

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. as your partner for factory-direct DVD CD replication manufacturing, DVD CD Duplication, along with eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. With our offices and manufacturing facility located in Surrey, BC (a suburb of Vancouver) we ship to clients throughout Canada and the U.S. daily.

May's VIP Special: CD Digipak

The Precision Disc VIP Special for May is another super deal on CD Digipak!

Our CS1020 style CD Digipak is featured and minimum order quanities begin as low as just 100 units.

As always, this is an all-inclusive package so you get full colour disc print, all set-ups, assembly, wrap, barcode, pre-press and one round of .pdf proofs included in the price. Our CS1020 features two folds, printable spines and you can choose to place the disc tray either on the middle panel or on the right panel.

Quantities of up to 200 units are supplied with quality CD duplication on recordable media. Quantities beginning at 300 are supplied with professional CD replication manufacturing.

All you need to do to take advantage of this special offer is become a Precision Disc VIP Member – it’s free to join and easy to sign up – and place your order in May.

If you really like the product and price but you’re not quite ready to take advantage of this offer in May, you can “hold” this special by placing a 50% downpayment and then we’ll hold the special offer pricing until you’re ready!

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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. is your factory-direct partner for DVD and CD manufacturing, DVD and CD duplication, along with a wide variety of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions including CD Sleeves and DVD Sleeves as well as Digipak. We are located in Surrey, British Columbia (Canada) which is a suburb of beautiful Vancouver (host of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games), and we ship to clients throughout Canada and the U.S. every day.

For inexperienced designers, figuring out the correct page sequencing when designing a CD Booklet or DVD Booklet can be rather confusing. This article is intended to clarify the difference between what looks right and what is actually right. In short, Printer Spreads versus Reader Spreads.

If you’d like to include additional information in your CD duplication or DVD duplication project you will likely need to incorporate a booklet into your budget and designs.

Booklets tend to be more popular than “folders” because we’re much more accustomed to the format of a booklet. Just like a book or magazine, a booklet is folded in half and is stapled in the middle, so they are very compact and easy to browse through.

Printer Spread Page Sequencing

Designing the booklet for your CD duplication or DVD duplication project shares many of the same design rules that apply to every other aspect of your project, but there is one commonly overlooked aspect we want to bring to your attention: Printer Spreads.

Through a whole lifetime of familiarity with books and magazines we know that ‘page 3’ comes after ‘page 2’ and then ‘page 4’ comes after ‘page 3’. This is absolutely correct after a book has been printed, cut, assembled and stitched but you actually have to design it counter-intuitively.

For the purposes of your CD duplication or DVD duplication project your ‘booklet’ is a series of 2 panel folders that are stacked together, stapled and then folded to create the book. There is a specific page order required to assure the booklet has the correct page sequence after it has been assembled, and this sequence (or page order) is referred to as Printer Spreads.

Create A Mock-Up

The best way for you to see this is to make a Printer Spread mock-up of something simple. Here’s how you can create a Printer Spread mock-up of a 4 panel (8 page) booklet using two pieces of scrap paper:

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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory direct CD DVD manufacturing and CD DVD duplication in eco-friendly print and packaging for clients throughout Canada and the USA. Get an instant online quote now!