Don't forget your disc labels
Disc labels are a very important part of your end product. Sure it's important that the quality of your content is of the highest standards - but as the old saying goes "you don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
For this reason, you should always budget to include professional disc labels in your CD duplication or replication process.
Here are the four different ways of printing labels onto discs:
- Offset or lithographic printing;
- Thermal transfer printing;
- Silkscreen printing; and
- Inkjet printing.
These are all needs dependent.
Offset printing
Offset printing is used for replicating rather than duplicating discs. It takes longer than other methods but is ideal when you need more than 1000 discs printed.
Thermal transfer
The images are taken directly from a computer, so the process is very fast. Thermal transfer is cost-effective in small runs and looks great.
Silkscreen printing
Silkscreen printing is by far the cheapest for large runs, but can leave a grainy effect around colour gradients and text.
The quality will be low if you use lots of colours, so simple designs with fewer colours are recommended.
Inkjet printing
This has a very high quality finish, but since the price is fixed and does not drop with greater quantities, it is more expensive for large runs of disc printing.
Have you had disc labels printed before? Which method did you use?