Precision Disc Blog

If there was one thing as big as the expectation and excitement about the launch of Blu-ray technology in the marketplace – it was the utter disappointment at the high cost of Blu-ray replication and all the hoops that needed to be jumped through.

Blu-ray may be all well-and-good for the major motion picture studios, but independent videographers and film makers don’t often see a cost/benefit number that lines up in their favor. The result of that is a strong demand for DVD5 and DVD9 replication by the ‘indie’ industry.

Despite those realities there’s still an alternative, so at Precision Disc we’re please to provide Blu-ray Duplication services in a wide range of packaging solutions.

Packaging options include the standard blue Blu-ray cases with printed paper inserts and, of course, any of our popular Digipak and Eco-Sleeves. We’ve also got some interesting ‘combo’ packages that feature DVD5 or DVD9 *plus* a duplicated Blu-ray companion disc.

That being said, if there’s a specific packaging solution you’re looking for but don’t see it published on our website, just give us a call. The fact that we have our own in-house commercial printing division (which includes digital printing, offset printing, variable printing, die-cutting, folding, gluing and packaging) means that we can provide the custom solution that you’re looking for.

Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. is pleased to announce the purchase of a KBA 74 Karat 29” waterless digitally integrated offset press.

The KBA 74 Karat is considered to be one of the ‘greenest’ print presses on the planet and, while we definitely require an environmentally-friendly printer for our product line of DVD and CD eco-packaging solutions, the KBA 74 Karat also delivers very high quality print reproduction for our discerning clientele.

“We’re delighted to have been able to purchase this particular press.” states company president
Paul Durnie, “It fits perfectly into our mandate for environmentally responsible technology and processes, and it’s the perfect fit for growing our print division and new ‘green’ product offerings. The press-sheet size, quick make-ready and printer speed made the 74 Karat a must-have for us.”

For a 29” printer of this calibre, the KBA 74 Karat has a very compact footprint (12’-9” long, 7’-3” wide and 7’-0” tall) and everything about this printer is designed for efficiency and user-friendliness. For example, the machine holds two cassettes of imaging plates (sufficient to print 10 jobs) which are imaged and changed automatically within the printer.

A complete job change with automated plate change, imaging and inking only takes about 15 minutes, with a maximum of just ten make-ready sheets. That’s quite amazing for an offset printer, when you think of the waste that is prevented by such efficient operation and technology.

And speaking of efficiency, the KBA 74 Karat has a maximum production speed of 10,000 sheets per hour, with waterless offset plates that can allow print-runs of up to 100,000 copies.

This press does away with paper waste, ink sludge, toxic cleaners and chemical developers that are typically associated with offset printing. Through its use of soy based inks, completely waterless printing technology, and inline aqueous coating, the KBA 74 Karat provides the highest quality eco-friendly print solutions you’ll find anywhere without sacrificing print quality one bit!

When combined with Precision Disc’s existing Indigo printers, not only does the KBA 74 Karat enhance our print production capacity and speed, the 29” press sheet also increases the number of products we can provide.

Printer features and highlights: 

• Waterless offset – brilliant colour, sharp dots
• Soft reproduction of the finest gradients
• No ghosting
• Superb solids
• In-line water based (aqueous) finishing.
• Solid densities and tone reproduction to ISO 12647-1/2/3
• Make-ready: 10 sheets
• Press dimensions (L x W x H):  12’-9” x 7’-3” x 7’-0”
• Weight:  26,500 pounds
• Power: 65kVA
• Max sheet size:  29.125” x 20.5”
• Max speed: 10,000 sph (job dependent)
• Resolution: 100 dots/mm = 2,540 dpi
• RIP: Creo Brisque

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory-direct DVD CD manufacturing and DVD CD duplication with a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.

With offices and replication plant located in Surrey, B.C. (a suburb of Vancouver), Precision Disc ships daily to clients throughout Canada and the U.S.

Every month Precision Disc has a new VIP Special, and in November 2010 we’re offering CD or DVD discs in our ultra-popular CS200 eco-friendly sleeve!

Order as few as 100 units or as many as you’d like - we’ve got a great price for you. These are fully-packaged products, everthing from full colour on-disc print all the way down to barcode and shrinkwrap! 

100 and 200 units quantities are supplied with CDR or DVD-R media with full colour inkjet print. 300+ unit quantities are supplied with replicated CD or DVD5 media complete with full colour CMYK offset print or up to 5 colour silkscreen print.

To take advantage of this month’s special offer, just sign up to our VIP Program (which is absolutely free – and easy to join) and then follow the ‘Star Your Order‘ instructions on our website.

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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory-direct CD DVD manufacturing and CD DVD duplication services along with a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.

Located in Surrey, B.C. (a suburb of Vancouver), Precision Disc ships daily to clients throughout Canada and the U.S.

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It’s always great to hear back from clients so we thought that we’d share a few of our most recent testimonials with you!

“I would like to pass on many thanks to yourself and your team. You were all amazing throughout every step of the way. I’d also like to say a big big thank you for getting the product to us on time, for the EP release party. Precision Disc did a fantastic job, as always! And I will definitely be coming back again with MORE TIME to spare!”  ~  Disa C.

This client sent this comment to the members of his Professional Videographers Association:  “I just received 1000 replicated DVDs all packaged up and I’m really happy with the company that did it for me.  Precision Disc (http://www.predisc.com) is a company that has a manufacturing plant in Surrey, B.C.  I tried working with a local outfit that is an agent for a big replication house in eastern Canada. I had used them before but they have changed hands and the new owners haven’t got a clue. Precision Disc has a great system that keeps you up to speed on the progress of the job and they’re super easy to work with.  You can get a quote online very quickly unless your job is outside the normal in which case you just call them. Their prices were lower than I expected. If you have a replication job, these are your people!  I can’t recommend them highly enough.”  ~  Steve B.

“Thanks for all your hard work on my last project.  I’ve featured your company on my website, which is designed to help artists save money so they can continue to make art.”  ~  Punam

“I got my discs back, and I phoned… but wanted to follow up with an email as well. I just could NOT be any happier with how it all came out. It looks EXACTLY how I imagined. There is always so much room for disappointment in these matters, but, you guys did a magnificent job. Also, it was ready a bit early, and for that, I must say thank you! (anxious girl that I am). What a great surprise. For any future projects, I would not dream of going through anybody else. Thank you, thank you, thank you a million times over!”  ~  Kelly H.

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory-direct CD DVD duplication and CD DVD replication with a wide variety of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.

From our offices and replication plant in Surrey, B.C. (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.

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!

CS225 eco-sleeve for DVD duplication

Precision Disc has a new eco-packaging product that’s just perfect for DVD duplication of virtually any quantity. 

We call it our CS225 eco-sleeve which features 3 panel construction, a single fold, and a vertical slit pocket for the disc to fit into. 

Printed using environmentally-friendly materials and processes onto durable 15pt. boardstock, this no-plastic DVD duplication packaging solution features 3 panel construction, a single fold and a vertical slit pocket for the disc to slide into. 

Minimum order requirement is just 100 units and 4/4 full colour print is included in the price! We’re so pleased with the CS225 that we’ve made it our “March Special Product Offer”. 

With the same physical dimensions (length x width) as a DVD Digipak the CS225 provides lots of room for graphics and text to promote the disc within. Graphic design templates are available on our website. 

While the CS225 eco-sleeve is DVD size, it’s a perfectly suitable packaging solution for CD duplication as well, and the price is certainly right! Please visit our website for a convenient and instant on-line quote for short-run CD and DVD duplication quantities of up to 200 units, as well as larger CD and DVD manufacturing quantities of 300+.

Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. is pleased to announce the launch of our new brand and website dedicated for people looking for DVD manufacturing and DVD duplication in Western Canada.

The brand/site is called DVDwest.ca and is a sister-site to our CDwest.ca brand which, as the name would suggest, is dedicated for people looking for CD manufacturing and CD duplication in Western Canada.

DVDwest.ca features a quick online quote function for all of our most popular disc and packaging combinations including the incredibly popular DVD Sleeve, DVD Jacket and Digipak. Simply enter your e-mail address then select from the “quantity”, “product type” and “disc type” options, click ”Submit” and then an automatically generated quote will be sent instantly to your email inbox. 

Also featured on the site is the 1.4gb capacity Mini DVD with a few popular packaging options including Eco-Sleeves.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a videographer, independent film maker, post-production house, business, student or anything in between, DVDwest.ca is here to provide Western Canadians with the opportunity to work with and benefit from a factory-direct relationship in their own back yard. This saves you time and money, reduces stress, and removes all types of obstacles such as tax confusion, cross-border shipping, currency exchange, time zone headaches, etc.

Please visit the website or give us a call to discuss your needs… we hope to be of service to you in the near future!

Precision Disc Special CD/DVD Offer for November 2009

Precision Disc’s special offer for November…

This month we’re doing something a little different. Instead of offering up special pricing on a product we’re offering a great FREE upgrade to a variety of products!

Place your order in November to get a *FREE 4/4 print upgrade on the following Eco-Sleeve and Digipak products:
Disc Sleeves: CS200, CS206, CS210, CS215, CS220, CS221
Digipak: CS1000, CS1005, CS1015, CS1020, CS1025, CS2000

*Stock is limited to our standard C1S stock… gloss finish on the cover side and ‘natural’ finish on the inside. There is a front-to-back print registration tolerance of approx 1mm. Clients who want the inside-spine print to line-up EXACTLY needs to be aware of the possibility of variance. This variance does not qualify as defective print.

For complete details please visit our website… this special offer is only available for orders placed in November so act now!

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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory-direct CD/DVD manufacturing and eco-friendly print and packaging for clients throughout Canada and the USA. In addition to CD replication and DVD replication services we also provide a great product line of short-run CD duplication and DVD duplication in Digipak and Sleeves in quantities as low as just 100 units.

Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. is pleased to announce a new eco-friendly CD and DVD packaging product that we’ve named the “CS221″.

This new eco-friendly disc sleeve is constructed with six panels which, after die-cutting, folding and gluing, creates a durable double-walled disc sleeve that features two folds with a printable spine, and two closed pockets. This is the perfect format for a two-disc packaged set, or for a single disc with a supplemental printed folder or booklet in the second pocket.

As with all of our standard eco-friendly CD and DVD Packaging Products, there’s only a 300 unit minimum order requirement which includes the superior quality and durability of replicated discs.

Place your order in October 2009 to receive special pricing on CD or DVD dics in the CS221 eco-sleeve. This limited time offer includes all set-ups, pre-press and one round of .pdf proofs, assembly, wrap and even a free barcode if you require one. Applicable tax and shipping are extra.

If you are in need of an alternative packaging solution for your CD or DVD disc needs, Precision Disc provides a full line of styles including CD Sleeves and DVD Sleeves, CD Digipak and DVD Digipak, CD Cases and DVD Cases, and Unprinted Sleeves.

Visit the website to generate your own quotation sent directly to your email inbox, or contact us if we can be of additional help in any way.

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