Bleed
When you design your CD Covers and CD Inserts you need to leave room for bleed on the printing. Below is an example of Bleed and a cover without bleed. You should not have your text right up against the edge.
Read MoreI notice a funny thing when clients come to my office to do business. They will hand me a business card with their info on it. Usually the card will have their name, their production company name or business name, their email and their website. So after we conduct business an they leave, I’ll hop on my computer and check out their website. Now here’s where the problem begins more than 80% of the people that hand me a business card with their website on it have no website. I go to the site, it either doesn’t exist or it…
Read MoreRecord sales are down, fewer CDs are going platinum and more artists are finding other ways to make streams of revenue for themselves, whether its selling clothing lines, sneakers, crunk juice, or vitamin water. The good ole days of selling 7 million albums looks like a thing of the past. Most music insiders blame it all downloading and the Internet. I have a totally different take on it. I own satellite radio in my car which puts over 184 channels at my disposal at any given moment. Plus I have my local radio stations. I subscribe to an expanded cable…
Read MoreYour CD Insert art work is really important, it’s the first thing your fans or customers are going to see about your project. It has a great effect on who buys your CD. Before they have the chance to listen to your CD, the will see your CD insert art work. It’s important to make sure your insert is appealing to the eye. It’s usually the first impression someone has about your CD job. This article will talk about some design aesthetics that will help you when designing your CD Insert. If you are creating a single panel CD insert…
Read MoreShort Run CD Insert Printing Short run CD Inserts is the backbone of our business. Short run refers to small quantities of less than 1,000 CD inserts. Most of our clients are not looking for a big order of CD inserts. Short run is standard in the indie music market. A lot of companies are looking for the big orders and theirs nothing wrong with that. But we want to work with an artist budget in mind. We know the best way to sell and promote your project may be to press up 100 CD inserts. You can press up…
Read MorePromote Your Next project or Next Show With CD Insert Printing I’m always amazed at how many artists I meet that do a poor job of promoting their music. Artists put hours and months into the creation of the music project. Then press up a 100 hundred CD’s and CD inserts, sell those hundred and call it a day for their CD release. There are 300 million people in America and you think selling a 100 CD’s is your threshold. That is pitiful. You as an artists need to really do some gorilla marketing and get your music out…
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