What do you Need to Start a CD Duplication Project?

While at your local record store, browsing for the CD, notice how smooth and professionally produced CD of your favorite artists see. This can be somewhat daunting if you're the last attempt at a demo band burned a computer at home and marked with a black felt tip marker. Why not go and have your next recording professionally produced? There are a lot of duplication and replication Labs out there that are very affordable. This process is very simple, just a few things You need. What you need to get Your CD duplication project to start?

1. CD Artwork

You have to create artwork for Your face CD and artwork to any insets. Paste is a work of art in a box, "little book" that comes with a lot of CDS is displayed.To create these files, you need a program to edit/create image. I recommend using Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. But there are many different programs available that you can use that will work well together.

When You create Your artwork, take note that most of the printing house (CD duplication facilities including) print everything in CMYK format. PROCESS refers to the different inks used to print Your artwork.

C = cyan

M = Magenta

Y = yellow

K = key (black)

Fun fact: the reason that black ink is represented by k and b is to prevent it from being confused with blue.

Fully described CMYK printing is an article in itself, and most of you do not need to understand in more detail. Just remember that when you create a new file in your program to make the image open, you must set up the format of the file to CMYK. Also, for high quality printing, Your artwork will be at least 300 DPI. DPI stands for dots per inch, and the size of the printing resolution, in particular the number of individual dots of ink a printer or toner within the space can result in one inch. If Your artwork less than 300 DPI, print the final will likely be blurred. Consult Your CD duplication home documentation for more information, such as specifications vary from company to company.

2. audio files

All audio is converted to.CDA format if pressed (replication) or on compact disc (duplicated) burned. If you already have your music recorded in a professional manner, they provide you with a "master". Master is the original copies of your recording to disk (or tape), used to make CDs and records.CD-quality audio File which is normally presented to a double CD of your home in the form of uncompressed 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo.WAV File. You should check with Your company, because the production of the CD case artwork, specifications vary from company to company.

Both items have been properly prepared, you will only see the good (and audibly) a batch of CDs. keep in mind, a fan of video, that most companies are also double-duplicate DVD. I hope you all, musicians and filmmakers, now realize that it doesn't take much to bridge the gap from amateur to professional quality media. Bring your next project to the next level!