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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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Tags: cd label, dvd label, offset print, offset printing, silk-screen, silk-screening
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Dressing DVDs

Monday, March 9th, 2009

So you’re making DVDs and don’t know quite exactly how you want to package them? Most people assume they need to package them into a DVD box (those black cases you see DVD movies packaged in on the shelves in stores) with a printed wrap under the clear plastic outer covering. You can do that for DVD packaging, and very easily these days, even with small jobs (quantities of 100-500). With the current mainstreaming of digital print, we can indeed digitally print wraps and assemble your DVD to show it off looking current and professional and you can feel happy that you didn’t need to order 1000 to make it look that way! And if you DO have 1000 or more, we can offset print wraps and you’ll have your easy recognizable DVD packaged up. They will be ready to sit nicely in racks and on shelves, but is that where they will live once they leave your hands?

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Tags: CD, digital print, DVD, offset print, packaging, project management
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Plastic vs Paper - colors can change

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

This one is for all you graphic designers out there creating artwork for CDs and DVDs and corresponding custom printed cardboard packaging and print. Always remember to keep this in mind: printing on plastic vs paper is very different and if you use a specific color for the CD, it may not look the same on the cardboard or paper materials! You need to determine how important color scheme is for your particular product or client. If there are important colors that represent your company or client and that can have no variation, please take this advice: do not use the same artwork on the CD as the packaging!

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Tags: color match, disc printing, offset print, silk-screening
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