There are many many different shades of black, such as plain black and rich black; and often it is difficult to tell the difference on the screen. So if you are putting CD/DVD artwork together that incorporates images with black background, here’s a quick trick to make sure that the black is uniform throughout. Open [...]
Entries Tagged as 'CMYK'
Inside spine printing for digipaks and wallets
May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Printing/Design
On a standard digipak, when it is opened, the inside of the spine is usually white. If you have an image that goes across the panels, you may want to print the inside of the spine as well to make the image continuous. There are 2 options we offer for inside spine printing: 1. PMS [...]
What is CMYK?
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Printing/Design
Colors on a printing press are created using a combination of four ink colors – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (called CMYK). These four inks are called process colors because they are the standard inks used in the four-color printing process. Your artwork must be in CMYK format (as opposed to RGB) before submitting. Share
What is a silver knockout and how to set it up?
June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Printing/Design
Silver knockout is the silver part that shows through the artwork of the disc, as the example here. When designing artwork for the silver knockout, simply use white and indicate on your artwork the white areas will actually be silver. When the discs are printed we will then skip the normal white base and print [...]
Printing tips for thermal printing
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Printing/Design
Thermal printing is a popular printing method for short run CD duplication and DVD duplication. As in all printing methods there are certain limitations, if they can be avoided you can make sure to get the best possible print quality. Tips for thermal on-disc printing: Gradient effect: although it may look good on offset printing, [...]
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Worst woes for a first time producer (part 3): Preparing the art
April 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Printing/Design
What is Bleed? A bleed is the area that will be cut off from the print to prevent the final artwork from having white edges. When scanning images, keep the bleed in mind so you do not have to force a bleed by resizing an image. This will inevitably cause a loss of sharpness and [...]
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