{"id":529,"date":"2022-08-12T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duplication.ca\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2022-08-12T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:28:31","slug":"guide-to-cd-silkscreen-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duplication.com\/blog\/guide-to-cd-silkscreen-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to CD Silkscreen Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the highest quality printed CDs, DVDs, or Blu-Rays, you will undoubtedly want to choose silkscreen printing. We can print up to four solid colours, or full colour CMYK if you wish to print a photograph or gradients. Designing silkscreen print artwork is a little different from designing album artwork, as colours will have to be separated for us to use the proper ink. Here are some tips for designing silkscreen disc artwork!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"2An example of\u00a02-colour silkscreen printing<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Use Photoshop<\/b><\/h2>\n

While many of us who have dabbled in graphic design are most comfortable using Photoshop, we do not recommend it in the case of silkscreen disc design. You should be using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, or CorelDraw. The main reason is that instead of using layers or colour fills like you would in Photoshop, you\u2019ll want to instead use Pantone swatches. Which brings us to our next point\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Start Using Pantone Colours<\/b><\/h2>\n

Pantone is an organization system for a wide range of colours. Each pigment or tint is assigned an alpha-numerical identifier, so for example Electric Blue would be Pantone 2727c. Ideally, as a graphic designer you would refer to a Pantone swatch booklet which would have every colour number, that way you\u2019re not reliant on a computer monitor whose colour calibration may be a little bit off.<\/span><\/p>\n

By using Pantone swatches in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or CorelDraw, we know exactly which ink colour to use. Your desired hue of blue won\u2019t be too bright or dull, for we know to use the 2727c ink. If you don\u2019t use Pantone swatches, you will need to tell us which pantone number to use for each colour.<\/span><\/p>\n

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