Specifications: Colour Ink-jet Printing
- Two sizes of discs are available to print by inkjet:
- CD and DVD printing with a small centre circle of 23mm.
- CD and DVD printing with a large centre circle of 38mm. - If we are printing with the inkjet disc that has a 38mm centre, then the print image extends to the edge of the clear circle in the centre of the disc.
- If we are printing with the inkjet disc that has a 23mm centre, then the inkjet image surface goes up to the physical small hole in the centre of the disc.
- FOR INKJET PRINTING PLEASE SUPPLY ARTWORK WITH A 2-4MM BLEED BEYOND THE INNER AND OUTER DIAMETERS.
- This means that you need to extend the area of your disc artwork beyond the template border so it is not exactly the same size as the template. The area beyond the template (the bleed) will not print, but it ensures that the disc print does not have edges of white surface showing where there should be print.
- Artwork needs to be at least 300dpi. Images from a website are NOT suitable for inkjet printing.
(Screen resolution is only 72 dots per inch and print resolution is over 300 dots per inch (dpi)), usually 1800 dpi. If we try to print from the web at 72 dpi the result is an unprofessional, fuzzy print with unreadable text.) - Make sure you supply your artwork with relevant images and fonts, or outline the fonts.
- Please make sure the key lines (template circles) on your artwork are NOT printable, or can be easily removed.
- (Our templates have the key lines set for viewing and positional purposes only.)
- Inkjet is printed CMYK, not PMS, but it can be quite accurate at matching some PMS colours.
- We cannot print metallic or fluorescent colours with inkjet.
- Although our graphic designers are extremely capable, remember that you are printing on a disc, so the result will not be exactly the same as paper. Also every printer, even of the same brand prints a little differently, so precise colour matching is not always possible.
- The inkjet printer does not re-produce heavily saturated-colour areas very well, ie; if a solid black and red are close together, a lot of wet ink is being laid down in the same area which will result in the colours running together as it dries.
- Please supply your artwork in one of the following programs or formats - Illustrator,Photoshop, InDesign, Quark Express or a PDF with fonts and images embedded.
- We can accept high-res jpgs as long as the artwork is setup correctly, as we cannot make any adjustments to jpg files. We can also accept artwork created on an Apple Macintosh. However fonts are not transferable to Windows unless outlined.
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