When we are CD manufacturing discs by either CD replication or CD duplication your finished CD product is usually printed.

Two popular methods of CD Printing are Silk Screen CD Print and Offset Litho CD Print.

There are three stages to the CD printing process. First your digital artwork file has to be transferred to film. The finished film looks a little like an over head projector transparancy in black only outputting one film per colour for just the areas of the design which contain that ink colour.

One film is produced per printing colour which is typically 5 in a set being a C – Cyan, M – Magenta, Y- Yellow, K – Black and W – White.

For silk screen CD printing the film transparancies are then mounted on a frame which has a stretched silk across it. This is then exposed before being washed to reveal the negative of the film image on the silk screen.

The silk screen with the artwork  image on is then mounted over the CD printing machine print bay.

The print machine loads each disc into a turntable and holds it in place by vacuum suction. This enables the CD to be held tightly without damaging the disc and a good registration to be achieved.

The turntable will rotate around so each CD is printed with one colour at a time by a rubber squeegee forcing ink through the silk screen onto the disc through the unexposed areas of the design. This creates a negative image of the screen on the disc surface resulting in an identical positive image to the original CD printing film.

The turntable rotates so that a UV Light cures the ink on the disc prior to the next colour being applied. This cycle repeats for each of the printing colours on the disc.

After CD Printing the discs are taken off the cd printing machine onto metal spindles in preparation for CD packaging.

Founded in 1995 Techware Dist has been focused on supplying digital media, cd & dvd printers, and printer supplies to market. Through years of experience; from B2B, B2C and direct thru e-commerce Techware Dist has developed strategic alliances that allow us to bring professional service and knowledge to your business.

This blog represents a new channel of communication for us; as the internet has evolved so has our business. We hope that this blog will become a welcome resource for disc printing, duplication and storage media information.

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If you would like help and advice on any of the following services for your print projects, then please contact us for free advice or a no obligation quote:

• Magazine design and production
• Corporate brochures and design
• Flyers and information leaflets
• Posters and POS material
• Advertisements
• Logos and Branding solutions
• Illustrations
• Picture retouching
• Powerpoint presentations and templates
• CD and DVD duplication and printing

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