CD printing is when an image in printed onto a CD or DVD. All band CD’s and all DVD’s will have an image, design or colour printed onto them for two reasons. The first is so you can recognise what the CD is and who the artist is, the second reason is so that you know which way up the CD goes!
There are different methods of CD printing dependant on what you want to print onto the disc. Media Plant offer three different types of CD printing; Digital Print; Screen Printing: and Litho Printing.
Digital Print
Best used if you want a quick turnaround on a small scale. The CD is printed using a one pass full colour printer which seals your images with a UV cured ink. This provides the best possible quality and prevention from smudging.
Screen Print
This method is the original way of CD printing and is now used for large scale orders using a bold or solid colour print image. They can be printed in CMYK (where all colours are a mixture of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black. It is used for full colour documents and is the standard colour model) or they can be printed in Pantone (making sure colours match without direct contact to one another). You can have all your products colour matched so that everything is the same for a particular brand and Media Plant has thousands of Pantone colours available including fluorescents and metallics.
Litho Print
This technique is best for reproducing photographs or artwork with gradients of colour. The bonus of Litho Printing is that it prints CMYK onto a white base and then having the option of adding a 6th colour in Pantone.
Having the three different methods of CD printing available to you allows your images to be transferred in the best quality possible. For more information about Media Plant and the services we offer, please get in touch.
