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CD and DVD Printing

Screen-printing is the process of printing directly onto the CD. With screen-printing, you can choose four-color process or individual PMS (Pantone Matching System) colors. Your color design can be placed directly onto the CD or onto a white flood first to match your paper printed materials.

Screen-printing offers the highest quality for your CD printing. This printing  option requires a minimum order (1000 is the minimum order) and usually takes up to a week  or longer to produce. You may furnish us with MAC or PC electronic files or film that  meets screen-printing output specifications.

Offset Printing - is an indirect printing process whereby ink is transferred to  the paper by a blanket that carries an impression from  the printing plate, rather than directly from the plate  itself. This is the most common method of commercial printing at this time.


   Offset Printing Process


In addition to Screen-printing, Foreground Image offers Offset printing for orders meeting specific order criteria. Quality inspections of incoming electronic artwork files are performed in each of the following areas to guarantee legibility and image integrity.

Colors Available
• Four Color Process Only
• White or PMS Color Underlay (If Desired)
• 1 Additional Screen Printed PMS Color    Overlay (Optional)
• Maximum of 6 colors can be used

Print Area: Specification available is 23 mm to 116 mm full Print To Center

Input: Electronic Files only, as this system uses direct-to-plate technology

Platform
• Macintosh
• PC Compatible

Media Types
• CD-WO (CD-ROM Write Once)
• 100 MB Zip
• 1 or 2 GB Jaz

Digital File Transfer
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is available. Please contact your Project Coordinator.

Compression
• Stuffit
• Self-extracting Archive
• ZIP, PKZip, WinZip  

Software
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop (for Placed Art Only)

Trapping: When trapping one color to another, create a .25 pt. stroke.

Proofing: A digital or analog color proof is required (made by Sony DADC).

  Resolution
• All Placed Images Must Be 300 DPI
• LPI is 150
• Maximum Dot Area is 5% to 95%

Maximum Ink Density:
No Limit

Fonts: entire Adobe Font Library.  non-Adobe fonts (screen and printer) are provided with the files.

Line Sizes:
To assure legibility and avoid a broken appearance, the minimum thickness forlines within positive images is .25 pt; and for reverse or negative images, .5 pt.

Type Size: Minimum type size is 4 point positive, 5 point reverse.

Proofs Available
• Remote Proofing
• Digital Proof (Terre Haute only)
• Analog Proof
• Laser Print
• Fax

Include all of the following when submitting electronic files for offset printing:
• A laser proof with colors indicated clearly
• All linked files such as EPS or Tiff
• Scanned color images in CMYK format at 300 DPI(not RGB or indexed)
•  All non-Adobe fonts (screen and printer fonts)

 Please be certain that:
• Names of files submitted, match exactly linked names in page layout programs
• Colors are named consistently in all files

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