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IF you 'd liek to make your own CD screens here's showing you how to do it: http://www.instructables.com/id/EFAN6S16FTEQ2W3MOV/ Also, remember that most Radio Stations do NOT like CD's that aren't in something close to a jewel box. They like to be able to see spines with info. Also, If not on the CD then somewhere you should have track numbers with times. Not a necessity in todays day and age but it makes Dj's lives easier. ~peace~ Plish Music from the Infinite Horizon... www.michaelplishka.com www.myspace.com/michaelplishka Quoting goddard.duncan@mtvne.com: > my band ships a lot of cd stock overseas. we have found a guy who doesn't > mind if we order 5 or 500- he does them as cd-r (never had one faulty) & > keeps the master audio & artwork so all I have to do is call him or email > him. he does dvd too.... cuts the art, folds & inserts.... we get these >for > about $2 each, irrespective of quantity or whether it's a new title. > I didn't have to shop around much for this deal, & he keeps it nicely > personal but professional. I hope everyone gets as lucky when they need >this > kind of thing. > > but anyway. > > my main point is that for overseas sales, we can cut down on shipping >costs > by negotiating with the distributor for him to source & assemble the >jewel > cases locally. thus we only have to ship the discs & the artwork. most > stores & mail-order sellers will have access to such things. > OR.... > for most of our titles I have formatted the artwork to fit in a clear > polythene sleeve (you may have seen these in boxes of 100 in radio shack >or > stationery/office supply/computer stores). > > here's the DTP part: > > the artwork is much simpler than you get with a jewel box, obviously, > although you can get adventurous & print both sides of the paper (I > generally don't, though).... it ends up looking like a mini LP sleeve. > I start with the front image, 200dpi & 123mm across by 125mm high. I > position this at the top of the canvas which is 123mm by 250mm & then >rotate > it so I can do the rear image/text layout. I use corel photopaint, which > lets me print external crop marks. my printer (a cheap colour laser) is > pretty accurate for size, so the 123mm x 250mm is exactly right for these > poly sleeves. > in any case, I only use my own printer for mock-ups & one-offs, like > vinyl-restoration work. > > for the discs- I scanned an ordinary cd I happened to have that was a >solid > block of colour, again at 200dpi, & used this to generate a mask for the > on-body artwork. usually, though, this is just a couple of lines of text >in > a font (made from my handwriting ages ago using fontographer). > this makes the cd-r look home-made, even though it isn't. > actually this started as a wry comment on the snobbishness we >occasionally > encountered about our perfectly decent home-made cd-r's back in the days > when we didn't sell enough stuff to justify farming it out. > > hope some of this is useful- > > duncan/r.m.i. > > > >*************************************************************************** > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user > of the e-mail address to which it was addressed, and may also > be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail you may > not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it or any part of it > in any form whatsoever.If you have received this e-mail in error, > please e-mail the sender by replying to this message. > > It is your responsibility to carry out appropriate virus and other > checks to ensure that this message and any attachments do not > affect your systems / data. Any views or opinions expressed in this > e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of MTV Networks Europe unless specifically stated, > nor does this message form any part of any contract unless so stated. > > MTV reserves the right to monitor e-mail communications from > external/internal sources for the purposes of ensuring correct > and appropriate use of MTV communication equipment. > > MTV Networks Europe > >*************************************************************************** > >