VIP Special Offer on DVD and CD Digipak

Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. is pleased to announce this month's VIP Special product offer: Place your order in February to get 10% off all standard CD DVD Digipak packages.

Visit our website to generate your Digipak quote using our web-quote system, and then take 10% off the net price (the 10% discount does not apply to applicable tax, shipping, or any item over-and-above the web-quote price).

Your Digipak web-quote package will include all of the following:

• Duplicated CDR or DVD-R media with full colour CMYK inkjet print and clear-coat for quantities less than 300 units.
• Replicated CD or DVD5 media with full colour CMYK offset print for quantities of 300 or greater.
• All set-ups and film.
• Pre-press and one round of .pdf proofs.
• Assembly and wrap.

Applicable tax and shipping costs are extra (Canadian tax is not applicable for goods ordered from and shipped directly to the U.S.). This VIP Special offer cannot be claimed in conjunction with other special, offer or discount. Package prices are offered ‘as is’ (no discounts or substitutions). No rush orders.

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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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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory-direct CD DVD Manufacturing and CD DVD Duplication with eco-friendly print and packaging to residents throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!
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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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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.

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.