KBA 74 Karat Offset Printer Has Arrived

At Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. we are pleased to announce the purchase of a KBA 74 Karat 29” waterless digitally integrated offset press.

The KBA 74 Karat is considered to be one of the ‘greenest’ print presses on the planet and, while we definitely require an environmentally-friendly printer for our product line of DVD and CD eco-packaging solutions, the KBA 74 Karat also delivers very high quality print reproduction for our discerning clientele.

“We’re delighted to have been able to purchase this particular press.” states company president Paul Durnie, “It fits perfectly into our mandate for environmentally responsible technology and processes, and it’s the perfect fit for growing our print division and new ‘green’ product offerings. The press-sheet size, quick make-ready and printer speed made the 74 Karat a must-have for us.”

For a 29” printer of this calibre, the KBA 74 Karat has a very compact footprint (12’-9” long, 7’-3” wide and 7’-0” tall) and everything about this printer is designed for efficiency and user-friendliness. For example, the machine holds two cassettes of imaging plates (sufficient to print 10 jobs) which are imaged and changed automatically within the printer.

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. as your factory-direct partner for CD DVD manufacturing and CD DVD duplication along with a wide variety of the most popular eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.

A family-owned and operated company located just two hours north of Seattle, in Surrey, BC (a suburb of Vancouver), Precision Disc ships to clients throughout the United States and Canada daily.
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November VIP Special - CS200 CD DVD Eco-Sleeves

Place your order in November 2010 to take advantage of this month's VIP Special - CD or DVD discs in our mega-popular CS200 Eco-Sleeve at a low low price!

This is a full package deal featuring all of the following:

• Full colour on-disc print.
• Full colour CMYK (4/0) Eco-Sleeve print.
• All set-ups and film.
• Pre-press and one round of .pdf proofs.
• Assembly and wrap.
• Barcode if required.

100 and 200 unit quantities are supplied with duplicated CDR or DVD-R media with full colour inkjet on-disc print.

300+ unit quantities are supplied with replicated CD or DVD5 media with your choice of full colour offset print (CMYK) or up to 5 colour silkscreen print.

Canadian tax is not applicable for goods shipping directly into the United States. Shipping cost is extra.

Our eco-friendly CD sleeves and DVD sleeves are printed using waterless technology and enviro inks on FSC certified 15pt boardstock that is 100% recycled.

If you'd like to take advantage of this month's special but aren't quite ready with your production assets, submit your order forms and downpayment and we'll hold the price for you until you are ready to proceed!

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. as your factory-direct source for DVD CD manufacturing and DVD CD duplication along with a wide variety of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. Located just two hours north of Seattle in Surrey, B.C. (a suburb of Vancouver), Precision Disc ships to clients throughout the United States and Canada daily.
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CD Digipak Special in September 2010

We've got a great deal for our VIP Special this month!

Order your CD Digipak in September 2010 and upgrade from one of our standard 4 panel Digipak styles to one of our 6 panel Digipak styles at NO EXTRA CHARGE.

• Upgrade our CS1000 Digipak to our CS1020 at no extra charge.
• Upgrade our CS1005 Digipak to our CS1026 at no extra charge.
• Upgrade our CS1015 Digipak to our CS1025 at no extra charge.

All of our Digipak's are created using top quality materials and eco-friendly products and processes, starting with 100% recycled and FSC certified 15pt boardstock. Add our waterless printing processes and eco inks and even our CD DVD recycling program, and you'll see that Precision Disc is truly an industry front-runner when it comes to "going green"!

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory direct and professional CD manufacturing and DVD manufacturing, CD duplication and DVD duplication services.

A fixture in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada since 2001 we also provide a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging alternatives to clients throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!

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August VIP Special - Free Promotional Print

August’s VIP Special offer is for promotional print. Place your CD replication or DVD replication order in August and get the following FREE promotional print with your order:

• 100 Printed Posters – 12″ x 18″ printed CMYK 4/0 with 1/2″ gutters on all sides, on eco-friendly 100# text stock.
• 100 printed stickers – 2″ x 2″ printed CMYK 4/0, bleed to edge, not for outdoor use.
• 100 printed postcards – 4″ x 6″ printed CMYK 4/1, bleed to edge, on eco-friendly 15pt cover stock.

This month’s Special Offer is applicable to replication orders only (minimum order of 300 units). Graphic designs must be supplied by the client in final form AT THE TIME OF ORDER and on Precision Disc graphic design templates. This special is offered as is – with no discounts or substitutions and cannot be claimed in conjunction with other special, offer or discount. Standard turn-time orders only – no rush orders.

Can’t take advantage of this month’s VIP Special right now? If you make a 50% downpayment we’ll hold the special until you’re ready to deliver your production assets!

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A fixture in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada since 2001 we also provide a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging alternatives to clients throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!
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Shipping Your CD Duplication or DVD Duplication Order to Seattle

Some Washington State residents may feel cautious about ordering their CD duplication or DVD duplication project from Canada.

To alleviate any concerns about ordering from Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. in B.C., Canada we'd like to provide the answers to the most common questions and concerns we hear:

Do you have many U.S. clients? Yes we do... hundreds and hundreds of them. Some of our oldest and largest clients are in the United States and we ship orders of every size and description to them.

How often do you ship to the U.S.? We ship orders to our clients all across the U.S. virtually every business day.

Do U.S. clients have to pay Canadian tax? No. If you are located in the U.S. and we are shipping the goods directly to you in the U.S., you do not have to pay any Canadian tax.

How Far Away Is Precision Disc From Seattle? We're located in Surrey, British Columbia which is about a 15 minute drive from the U.S./Canada border. You might be surprised at how close by we actually are:

 

• Distance from Seattle to Precision Disc: Approx 100 miles, which is about a 2 hour drive north of Seattle on the I-5.
• Distance from Seattle to Spokane, WA: Approx 230 miles.
• Distance from Seattle to Portland, OR: Approx 145 miles.
• Distance from Seattle to Olympia, WA: Approx 50 miles.

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A fixture in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada since 2001 we also provide a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging alternatives to clients throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!
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CD DVD Duplication - A Job Well Done

It's always nice to get feedback from clients - especially positive feedback. Here are just a few of the unsolicited client testimonials we've received recently:

 
"We received the discs yesterday, and they look great! We'd like to extend a big thanks to you and your team for the wonderful work you do! We look forward to working with you in the future!"  Mike

"Thank you very much for taking care of our school’s CD’s. They turned out very well. I was most impressed by the thoroughness and professionalism of you and your company at every stage of the project. The website was particularly useful. It was great to have some much detail. We intend to make a CD every year at this time, so you will likely be hearing from us again next May."  Bill

"I got them today and they are awesome!!!!!!! Thanks man." Scott

"I got the CDs and I couldn’t be happier with how they look & sound. You guys were true to your word, very professional…and you rock! I will be recommending you to the indie music scene here." Ron

"The DVDs arrived today and look great. I am so impressed with the service at Precision Disc. Very clear communication about the status of the project and easy to follow guidelines, not to mention top quality at the best price I could find. Thank you so much! I will definitely be a return client." Dena

"Got the CDs today and they look amazing. Thanks so much for all your help!"  Dylan

"Hi. Got the CDs last week. They look amazing. Thanks!"  Katie

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory direct and professional CD manufacturing and DVD manufacturing, CD duplication and DVD duplication services.

A fixture in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada since 2001 we also provide a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging alternatives to clients throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!

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Glass Mastering For Audio CD Manufacturing

Just recently we've heard from a number of CD Audio clients who have been concerned with the 'Glass Mastering' aspect of the CD manufacturing process.

Use of the word "Mastering" is giving them the impression that their audio tracks are somehow being modified or adjusted in a similar way to the process of 'Mastering' that follows the mix-down of the songs in the studio.

Unfortunately, the word 'Master' gets thrown around a lot so it can be a bit confusing. This article is intended to give the different uses a bit of clarity.

Mastering, Master and Glass Master

• Mastering: Mastering is a type of audio post-production where the source audio is processed to optimize the sound quality as well as to provide a ready-to-manufacture CDR or disc image for manufacturing purposes. Examples of Mastering processes include equalization, compression, limiting, noise reduction, fade-ins, fade-outs, track sequencing, adding meta-data, etc.
   
• Master: The product of the Mastering stage is your "Master" - the contents of which are intended to be ready-to-manufacture without the requirement for any additional changes or modifications being made. Due to this, it's very important that you listen to the playback of your Master thoroughly - all the way through from beginning to end - to ensure that it performs exactly the way you want it to... this includes checking meta-data too! We have additional instructions on supplying your Master CD that you should read.
   
• Glass Master: The Master copy you provide to us is used to create the replication 'stamper' that imprints the data onto the CDs in the replication manufacturing process. Keep reading to learn more about this process...

The Glass Master and Stamper

Assuming that you have followed our instructions on supplying your Master CD we then take your Master copy and proceed to the first step in the replication process which is creation of the 'Stamper'. Please note: This process is highly specialized and technical, so the following explanation is only intended to be a very basic explanation.

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ISRC Codes For Your Music CD Duplication Project

As times passes more and more audio clients are creating and supplying their own content masters rather than going to the traditional industry professionals for such services.

While it's excellent to see more clients who are empowered in this way, we have seen a significant rise in master issues and confusion about the process.

ISRC Codes is another item that a lot of people have heard of, and they know they want to include them, but don't have any specific knowledge or experience with them. Due to this, we've provided the following overview information:

The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music video recordings.

Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments.

The ISRC system is the key to royalty collection for recordings in the digital information age. ISRC is a unique, reliable, international identification system. ISRC provides a unique tool for the purpose of rights administration. ISRC is a useful identification tool in the electronic distribution of music. ISRC coding is compatible with standards developed in the field of consumer electronics and is readable by hardware already used in the recording industry.

ISRC is cost effective - it can be put into operation without requiring special investment in equipment or technologies. The ISRC consists of twelve characters:

• Country (2 characters)
• Registrant (3 characters)
• Year of reference (2 digits)
• Designation (5 digits).

Important: The four elements should be separated by hyphens and the letters ISRC should always precede an ISRC code.

Four Elements of the ISRC Code

The code elements appear in the following order:

• Country Code: represented by two letters eg (CA) which identifies the country of residence of the registrant at the time the ISRC is allocated.
• Registrant Code: represented by three digits eg (AA2) assigned in sequence from the AVLA database that are unique for each record label/master owner. This code does not change if ownership of the recording changes or if licensed to another repertoire owner.
• Year of Reference: represented by two numbers eg (08) identifies the year in which the ISRC is allocated to the recording which will usually be the year in which the full mastering process for the recording is finalized.
• Designation Code: five digits assigned by the producer/owner as they choose eg (00001).

Get ISRC Codes in the USA

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
10th Floor - 1025 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
Tel: 202-775-0101
Fax: 202-775-7253
email: isrc@riaa.com

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Precision Disc provides professional short run CD duplication and DVD duplication services for residents of Seattle and the rest of Washington State including Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett. We've got all your bases covered with the best combination of price, product and service you're find in the Pacific Northwest including eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.
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Security Tags For Your CD DVD Duplication Project

Do you require security tags for your CD DVD duplication project?

If you need retail Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) security tags for your CD duplication or DVD duplication order, Precision Disc can supply you with Sensormatic Ultra Strip tags.

“Sensormatic” is the worldwide leader in industry-leading EAS solutions backed by more than 1,500 patents and is utilized by the countless companies and organizations around the world to reduce product losses. Today, over 80 percent of the world’s top 200 retailers that use EAS rely on Sensormatic solutions.

The Sensormatic “Ultra Strip” tags are designed to provide the highest level of anti-shoplifting protection in a retail environment using the smallest tag size possible.

The Ultra Strip III Low Profile tag measures just 1.76” in length x 0.4” in width x 0.047” thick, and is placed inside the CD or DVD case. The exact location of the tag is dependent on the type of case and the amount of room available. It features a lower cavity height, requiring the label to be placed on a rigid substrate.

For CD jewel cases and Digipak trays the tag is usually placed on the surface of the disc tray but will be hidden under the CD or DVD disc.

For standard DVD cases, there are less space restrictions so the tag is generally placed at the bottom of inside back cover.

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Digital Printing Provides Eco-Friendly Benefits

At Precision Disc we know it doesn't really matter how you refer to it - eco-friendly, carbon neutral, environmentally friendly, earth conscious, green, sustainable or other popular catch-phrases as it all revolves around the same thing and being ‘green’ is very much front-of-mind these days.

While all of the the attention on being ‘green’ is very important (and completely overdue in our opinion) beware of the shrewd marketers in the marketplace who are simply trying to cash in on what they see as the latest trend. Due to this it's wise to be a discerning consumer and ask questions.

Digital Printing Instead of Offset Printing

• We recognize the responsibility we have as a good corporate, community and global citizen so we have invested in the right equipment, processes and materials to provide the types of sustainable and environmentally-friendly printing solutions that the market wants. As a matter of fact, the bulk of the work we produce is printed digitally and for good reason.
   
• Despite the amount of focus put on the CD DVD duplication and CD DVD manufacturing aspects of what we do, we're also very much a "printing company" as we produce the vast majority of our own print and packaging products ourselves.
   
• The evolution of digital printing has revolutionized the printing industry. While traditional offset printing is considered an industrial process, digital printing is a computerized process which, by its very nature, is less wasteful and less demanding on resources compared to conventional print. Less waste and less consumption equates to a more environmentally friendly method of printing.
   
• Digital printing has eliminated many stages of traditional printing that were time, energy and resource-consuming. This includes processes that were accompanied by liquid waste, solid waste and fumes - some of which actually require specialist treatment for disposal. Additionally, digital printing eliminates the use of chemistry for film and plate processing, as well as the substantial waste of materials used in the 'make ready' stage of offset printing.

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Precision Disc provides professional short run CD duplication and DVD duplication services for residents of Seattle and the rest of Washington State including Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett. We've got all your bases covered with the best combination of price, product and service you're find in the Pacific Northwest including eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.

CD Digipak Special Offer in May

We're pleased to announch another great deal on CD Digipak for May's VIP Special.

This month we're featuring our very popular cs1020 style CD Digipak and, as is always the case, you'll find this to be an all-inclusive CD Digipak package that includes the following:

• Full colour print on disc
• All set-ups
• Assembly and wrap
• Barcode
• Prepress of your artwork files
• One round of electronic (.pdf) proofs

Minimum order quanities begin as low as just 100 units and, of course, there is no maximum order!  :)  CD duplication on quality recordable media are provided for orders quantities of up to 200 units, and professional CD replication manufacturing is provided for order of 300+ units.

The CS1020 Digipak has two folds with printable spines and the disc tray can be placed on the right panel or the middle panel.

This special Digipak offer is available to any Precision Disc VIP Member – it’s free to join and easy to sign up – but you need to place your order in May.

If you would like to take advantage of this month's CD Digipak deal but you're not quite ready with your Master and/or your artwork we can “hold” this price for you if you place a 50% downpayment in May!

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Precision Disc provides professional short run CD duplication and DVD duplication services for residents of Seattle and the rest of Washington State including Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett. We've got all your bases covered with the best combination of price, product and service you're find in the Pacific Northwest including eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.

New CD Duplication DVD Duplication Tower Added

Precision Disc recently added a new disc duplication tower to our short-run CD duplication and DVD duplication department which will increase our ability to serve our clients needs.

The new eleven-drive disc duplication tower consists of one master and ten slave drives which will increase short-run CD duplication and DVD duplication capacity nicely. This extra capacity, in turn, will enhance our ability to meet quick turn-time requirements for the following products:

• CD Audio, CD ROM
• DVDR (single and dual layer)
• Blu-ray (single layer)
• Mini CDR and CDR Business Cards

Our short-run CD duplication and DVD duplication department produces discs in quantities that are not cost-effective enough for replication. With our minimum order requirement for disc replication being just 300 units most duplication run quantities are between 50 and 200 units but, regardless of this, we are happy to produce any quantity of discs you may require as we have the duplication and replication capabilities to do so.

Because we produce almost all of our own custom print and packaging in-house (over 95%), we are able to provide some of our most popular eco-friendly disc packaging solutions in short-run quantities. This includes our Eco-Sleeves and Digipak for both CD and DVD in quantities as low as 100 units.

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Precision Disc provides professional short run CD duplication and DVD duplication services for residents of Seattle and the rest of Washington State including Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett. We've got all your bases covered with the best combination of price, product and service you're find in the Pacific Northwest.

Booklet Design For Your CD DVD Duplication Project

If you’d like to add printed biographical information or song lyrics to your CD DVD duplication project you will likely need to incorporate a booklet into your budget and designs.

Booklets tend to be more popular than “folders” because we’re much more accustomed to the format of a booklet. Just like a book or magazine, a booklet is folded in half and is stapled in the middle, so they are very compact and easy to browse through.

Designing the booklet for your CD DVD duplication project shares many of the same design rules that apply to every other aspect of your project, but there is one commonly overlooked aspect we want to bring to your attention: Printer Spreads.

Through a whole lifetime of familiarity with books and magazines we know that ‘page 3’ comes after ‘page 2’ and then ‘page 4’ comes after ‘page 3’. This is absolutely correct after a book has been printed, cut, assembled and stitched but you actually have to design it counter-intuitively.

For the purposes of your CD DVD duplication project your ‘booklet’ is a series of 2 panel folders that are stacked together, stapled and then folded to create the book. There is a specific page order required to assure the booklet has the correct page sequence after it has been assembled, and this sequence (or page order) is referred to as Printer Spreads.

The best way for you to see this is to make a Printer Spread mock-up of something simple. Here’s how you can create a Printer Spread mock-up of a 4 panel (8 page) booklet using two pieces of scrap paper:

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Precision Disc provides factory direct CD DVD duplication and replication manufacturing services with environmentally friendly print and packaging for clients throughout Washington State including Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett and beyond.

Visit our website for an instant online quote via email and join our VIP Program to gain access to monthly special offers, discounts, prize giveaways and more!
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CD Duplication - What is CD Text?

CD Text causes a lot of confusion. While most CD duplication and CD manufacturing clients have heard about CD Text and want it on their CDs, most do not know exactly what it is or how it works - and this can cause some anxieties.
What is CD Text?

CD Text is a technology exclusive to audio CDs that enables low bit rate information such as the artist name and song name to be stored on the physical media. If CD Text has been added to a CD, applications or devices that can read and display this information will retrieve it and show it to the user.

It's not at all uncommon for clients to play their music CDs on a computer and then panic because the CD Text they were expecting to see wasn't visible. The client's immediate reaction is to think that something is wrong with the CDs themselves, and a flurry of phone calls with the CD duplication company then takes place.

Do all devices and computer applications display CD Text?

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Precision Disc provides factory direct CD DVD duplication services with environmentally friendly print and packaging for clients throughout Washington State including Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett and beyond. Visit our website for an instant online quote via email and join our VIP Program to gain access to monthly special offers, discounts, prize giveaways and more!

Seattle CD DVD Duplication

Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory-direct CD DVD Duplication for residents throughout Washington State including the cities of Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett and everywhere in between.

Whether you require short-run CD DVD Duplication or larger run CD DVD Manufacturing we've got all your bases covered with the best combination of price, quality, product and service that you'll find anywhere in the Pacific Northwest.

Located just two hours north of Seattle at the Canadian border, we ship to clients throughout the United States and Canada each and every day with availability of overnight freight service to Seattle.

When you place your order with Precision Disc you're actually dealing with the people who manufacture your product - not a middleman. We provide full service disc replication, duplication, print and packaging under one roof (ours!) and minimum order requirements for CD DVD Replication is just 300 units. Did you know that we're the only remaining replication plant north of San Francisco on the West Coast, and the only replication plant remaining west of Ontario in Canada? We must be doing something right!

Some people just talk about "going green" but here at Precision Disc we have actually invested in the right equipment, materials and processes to create a growing line of environmentally-friendly CD and DVD packaging products that we're very proud of... and that you can be proud of too! We print, cut and assemble over 95% of our custom printed eco-friendly packaging and we're adding to our product line all the time. Because we make all of our eco-friendly CD DVD Sleeves and CD DVD Digipak ourselves we offer our most popular styles at a minimum order quantity of just 100 units.

Sign up to our VIP Program (it's free to join and you can unsubscribe at any time) to gain access to a growing number of incentives, offers and even a monthly prize give-away that are only available to VIPs. Visit our website to get an instant online quote and contact us with any questions or comments you may have.

We hope we can be of service to you!