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Handle with care

Friday, March 27th, 2009

bad disc

We have a lot of clients that supply us with disc masters for CD and DVD replication and duplication. We have to admit, we’re sometimes surprised that we are able to make copies and glass stampers from these. What are you folks doing to these discs? We receive discs that are scratched, dirty, cracked and sent in wrinkled sleeves, cracked cases and sometimes in nothing other than a plain envelope. (more…)

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Silk-Screened and Offset Printed Labels

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Silk-screened and Offset printed Media

If you are replicating a large quantity of CD-Roms or DVD-Roms (1000 +), you will have a professional label inked directly to the surface of the disc. There are two types: silk-screened and offset print. What’s the difference and which should you choose?

Silk-screened labels are labels where ink is literally pushed through a screen onto the disc. You can typically use up to 5 or 6 colors and each screen represents a color.
Offset printed labels are labels where ink is placed onto the disc using special printing pads. The artwork will always be printed 4 color process over a flood of white ink.

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