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 6^th 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.

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. In 2010, over 112,000 UK Mo Bros got on board, raising £11.7 million.

If you would like to support Joe, Scott, Gary, Rory and Lee in the their determined, if not going to end up a little itchy efforts, then please go to: http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1796594/

We’ll be updating the page once a week so that you can have a good old laugh at their efforts, Joe said at the 1^st photo call “Although we all realise we are going to look quite silly at least we won’t be alone, we expect to see many Mo Bros proudly sporting their achievements in the local area”

Personal events in the next few weeks have not put them off, Joe has his 2^nd baby due on the 3^rd November and so his wife can’t wait to see some of those first father/baby pictures.

Scott has a 40^th birthday to attend with his whole family; they may think Scott is having an 80′s revival!

A moustache update

Throughout the weekend we provided networking support, product information and promoted the excellent working relationship between the two companies.

Media Plant provides CD and DVD duplication, printing, mailing and fulfilment services. With additional value added services of parcel tracking, order returns and online order tracking to Your Internet Buddies.
Following this successful event we are providing services to a range of clients that attended the event and we are looking forward to continuing this fantastic partnership.

We have had fantastic feedback from our clients with comments such as: – “Great new image” and “Good to see you moving with the times”.

The world of digital media and print is experiencing challenging times and to reflect this time of change we are providing additional services including new services of vinyl pressing, branded promotional products, USB branding and individual product fulfilment. This means for many of our clients we have become the total solution.

Our dedication to our customers will remain paramount and we will continue to provide the core product range as we always have.

We’re excited about the rebranding and hope that our clients and prospective clients like it as much as we do.

Calm is and always has been run by its parents, patients, their families on a purely voluntary basis, support is also given by medical and other professionals within the community.

Calm charity works largely from within the Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust area. CALM holds no offices and no administrative salaries are taken, keeping running costs to an absolute minimum. This ensures all the money and resources available can go to the families and children who need it most.

Through the strength and support of CALM the children who suffer, together with their brothers, sisters and parents, have become one big family giving support to each other, sharing joys and success together as well as the bad times.

We are exceptionally happy to support CALM and the work that they do by providing a financial commitment for the next 12 months.

What does CALM aim to do?

Our aims and objectives are:

• To improve the quality of life for the children on treatment.
• To give support to the families.

CALM aims to improve the quality of life for both the children going through treatment, and the parents and families during and after treatment. CALM provides support to families to cope with physical, emotional and often financial strain. It is not uncommon for other members of the family to suffer stress related illness.

For further information please visit: http://www.calmcharity.org

 
Part of the package includes the Mediaplant Logo on the shoulders of the home and away strips and as you can see from these photos stands in this prime position, along with this we will have a half page advert in the weekly programme along with match night announcements promoting Mediaplant throughout the game, we will also have a full game sponsorship package allowing Mediaplant 20 people in the VIP lounge and man of the match presentation, over and above these key things we will have our company logo on the Wildcats website with a hyper link to our website along with our business profile sent to 1700 people on the Wildcats e-zine, Mediaplant are looking forward to the season and are wishing the Wildcats all the very best for the coming season.

Here’s one of our recent projects for USB data loading. Branded pen knife USB sticks, data loaded, packed and delivered back to the client.

DVD piracy has evolved. At one time, media was expensive and PC hard disc space was small, but now, consumer access to free and inexpensive DVD ripping software for PC’s, high speed internet connections along with cheap media has made it easy for one person to illegally copy video content for personal use.

Have you thought about protecting your content? Copy protecting your DVD Video product is an excellent way of defeating the freeware and shareware rippers that are also known as casual pirates.

By providing two main modes of protection it defeats the top methods of copying.

• Rip Deterrence technology, thwarts freeware and shareware rippers that download software from the Internet
• Anti Copy Protection – Inhibits copying via analogue ‘out’ port in devices like DVD players and set top boxes

This kind of protection is used on billions of DVD’s worldwide and is the same protection that Hollywood Studios use on major film releases.

There are no separate license agreements needed to add this to your DVD. For a small increase on disc productions costs you can protect your content.

Through our partnership with Rovi Corporation a global leader in digital entertainment technology solutions, we can provide cost effective, successful copy protection for your DVD products, whether it is a major film release on replicated DVD discs or short run DVD duplication.

Media Plant are excited to announce that they are now able to offer the new M5315 USB duplicator, that can test and copy any USB storage device, including USB hard drives, PDA’s, Mobile Phones and PND’s.

The M5315 USB Duplicator, newly released in June 2011, offers more than data duplication from a master drive, with the ability to support USB 3.0 Super Speed and USB 2.0 High speed devices it has 15 target sockets for parallel USB duplication.

This new addition to the range of services that Media Plant can offer opens the ability for mass production of USB devices and hard drives for all intents and purposes, from marketing material to sharing photos from an event. Media Plant can then password protected and brand the USB devices were necessary.

When LPs first came on to the market they were made with very large grooves which meant the playing time for each side of the vinyl album was limited to 5 minutes. This clearly wouldn’t do, this is why they refined the product and created a new fine-grooved vinyl disk which meant you could enjoy around 20 minutes of your favorite album before you would have to turn it over.

The vinyl album remained the preferred way to listen to music in your home throughout the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s not letting the cassette tape take the top spot when it was first released in the 1950′s. However in 1983 along came the compact disk (CD) which gave you the same music without the degeneration of the vinyl caused by repeated playing or careless handling. Once the initial high prices of CD’s and the players had come down, sales of CD’s succeeded to push the LP from its top spot.

Now in the 21^st century vinyl has seen a new surge in popularity which has seen the demand for the LP steadily increase year on year. Artists such as Adele, The Killers, Kings Of Leon and Florence & The Machine have released albums on vinyl to keep up with this current retro trend.

Media Plant want to help you enjoy the deeper, warmer sounds that only a vinyl disk can offer, this is why we are pleased to announce our new partnership enabling us to offer great pricing and service on Vinyl pressing of Albums, EP’s, Singles and Picture Discs. We can also offer our fulfillment and distribution services which would send your vinyl straight from our production facility to your customer.

We can produce a standard black album, colour vinyl or even a picture disc where both sides can be printed in full colour to match the album cover and packaging which we also offer.

This is an exciting addition to the range of services that Media Plant offer, however, if you are still not convinced and want to stick with CD’s and DVD’s, don’t forget we still offer DVD duplication, CD duplication as well Replication and many CD/DVD packaging options.