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Amazing Value Card Wallets: 10th October 2023

Monday, October 9th, 2023

Check out our Single Card Wallet Eco-Friendly Option for your merchandise table.

These high quality 350 gsm card  house your CD or DVD very snugly, and allow your fans to purchase a great memory to take home. Printed in high resolution colour they allow you to get creative with your artwork and personally sign for your fans if you wish to .

The template is nice and straightforward and free to download from the artwork section of the Website.

Every day we see incredible artwork coming through for printing ….there’s a few inspirational examples below.

colourful lady with multi-coloured hair and cool sunglassesCustomer cd and card wallet, singers image

 

 

 

 

Posters for your gigs: 1st August 2023

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

With our incredible digital printer we can produce fantastic posters or flyers for gigs, and indeed for any events.

They can even be waterproof if you want them to be !

They will soon be available to add to your order at the check out but if you would like to know more straight away, please email:

una@duplicationcentre.co.uk

 I  will be very happy to help you .

Help with Artwork: 13th June 2023

Tuesday, June 13th, 2023

All the templates for every type of printed part are in our artwork section, along with an artwork creation tool that you can download free of charge.

https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/artwork.html

We are aware however, that even with that help, artwork design can sometimes be a daunting prospect and maybe difficult for you to get just as you want it to be.

We can help with this on several levels; for some it may just be getting the text to sit properly on a spine or for others its everything they need help with!

That’s one of the reasons we’re here !!

Drop me an email (una@duplicationcentre.co.uk) if you are struggling with creating your artwork or phone in and we can work out the best sort of help we can offer to you.

We will work with you to create the art that you are happy with and offer screenshot proofs along the way to assist you.

Our basic service is £25 plus vat but for jobs that take up lots of our technicians time, it will a bit more, but we will advise you of that , so there are no surprises!

design office man at computer artistic work

 

Flyers & Posters: 6th June 2023

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023

Just to let you know that we print flyers, leaflets and posters on both silk finish normal printed paper and on waterproof paper!

So if you need any for concerts, gigs or for any other advertising give us a call on 01702 530354 or email :

una@duplicationcentre.co.uk

 

If it is waterproof you are after check out our Website that is dedicated to this!

https://www.waterproofprint.com/

 

Artwork files: 27th March 2023

Monday, March 27th, 2023

This is the third article in our series to help you unlock some of the technical gargon, associated with the Duplciation process.

Artwork Files:

Beware, we are now moving into the area of artwork and the word image no longer relates to a disc image! When talking about artwork, and image is simply a picture, a graphic or photograph

 

PDF

PDF stands for “portable document format.” Adobe Systems designed this format, which has become the standard for exchanging electronic documents. Its a very complex and powerful format used extensively in artwork design and printing, perfect for supplying your artwork supporting the other artwork formats below, as well as special print formats, colours and vector graphics.

 

JPEG,  TIFF, and PNG

These image formats are ideal for photos and similar images containing many colours offering good quality and acceptable sizes are possible. The quality / file size of a jpeg can be altered through the use of compression.

The three formats all vary slightly in the way they apply compression to the images, each with its own advantages. For printing its best to keep the compression at a minimum so the files are larger and better quality.

 

PSD

This format is only used by the graphics programs Photoshop. The files are generally large and contain lots of additional information and layers which are not needed for print. The complexity of the files make them perfect for editing and designing, BUT not ideal for printing. You should save your artwork to PDF or JPEG when ready to submit for printing.

To learn more about artwork formats this article is a good place to start, offering beginner guides to the various types: Further information on artwork formats.

Our Templates: 25th October 2022

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022

Once you have decided on the cases or wallets that you are going to use for your discs, you will need to design the artwork.

In addition to needing disc artwork ( we call it onbody art) you will need art for the card/paper parts that we will be printing for you.

As well as all the templates in our artwork section on the Website , we have a free artwork creation tool that you can download.

 

The templates are free and available to download as PDF’s or to use in Photoshop and you will be able to upload these directly to us once you have placed your order.

 

Everything that you send us is checked to make sure that it meets our print requirements( we don’t proof read however so you need to spell check before you send it to us !!!)

 

If you have any questions about producing your artwork we are happy to chat on the phone ( 01702 530354) or you can email us : support@duplicationcentre.co.uk

Dont worry if your questions seems small …we are happy to help.

A Customer’s Story: 22nd April 2021

Thursday, April 22nd, 2021

At the start of the first lockdown, I was furloughed and wanted to try do a project I had been wanting to do for years but never had the time for. Making a song a day for a whole month. So, I decided to make a song a day for thirty days. I was doing a masters in music innovation at Waterbear in Brighton at the time and thought it would also be interesting to write about for an upcoming essay.

The songs were uploaded daily to my bandcamp and I would post about them every day on social media and it was really lovely having a very small group of people keeping up with the project daily and getting feedback constantly and feeling like I was creating something original.

Anyway, people were asking if I would make a CD, and I wanted to see if I could keep the CD’s in ethos with the project. I had gotten really into the number thirty and I liked the symbolism of having thirty cds for thirty songs. I also loved how each day in the project I had to try create something new and so I wanted each CD to be new and differentand so I liked the idea of painting each one.

In the end it was difficult and challenging but really exciting seeing everyone getting unique CD’s! I also painted a lyric poster for every song so you would get a numbered print and cd. I sold them through Resident Music in brighton and sold out like 6 hours after putting it up for preorder! It was really rewarding.

I then made thirty days 2 and 3 and for the second decided to have the cd’s more conventionally made through your site but had custom badges and for the third I am going to put an order through soon for conventional CD’s again but will be making thirty unique hand made tiny zines with lyrics and drawings in them.

young male customer holding hand painted double card walletwater colour double card wallet hand painted solo project 30 dayshand pained card wallet and colour printed cd covid 19 project

Raf’s story is both inspiring and heart warming.

We love to hear about our customers projects…the more detail the better. It gives us great pleasure to work with cutomers and see the final product that they are achieving.

 

If you want to speak to us about a project that you may need some advice with drop me an email :

una@duplicationcentre.co.uk or call us on 01702 530354 we would be happy to chat and help you where we can.

 

If you want more information on Raf Batchelor’s story , you can follow him on FaceBook.

 

Valentines CD: 7th February 2021

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

There’s just time to get a Valentines CD duplicated for the one you love.

black disc with white text Peace & Lovecard wallet with red heart in teh centreLOVE three sisters happy hugging

 

Get a quotation now & you can order just 1 copy from us:

https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/prices.html

Follow Us On Instagram:September 10th 2020

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

We would love you to follow us on Instagram where we share Amazing Artwork and Important News.

Dont miss out on seeing some inspiring, cool, thought provoking and sometimes humerous art from customers; along with Important News and Offers.

Follow us on Instagram..and keep in touch …multi coloured shape logo for instagram app

.https://www.instagram.com/duplicationcentreltd/

Why do Colours sometimes look different on my Monitor & Printer:July 13th 2020

Thursday, August 13th, 2020

Why is it that your printed colours look different to what you see on your monitor? Everything looks great on the screen but the prints come out subtly different.

The truth is you will never see a perfect match between images on the screen and images on paper, they are simply put, two very different entity’s.

Colour Space, RGB and CMYK

You monitor image is made us from pixels, these are thousands of tiny lights, and each of these lights can produce around 16 million colours, which is more than our eyes can recognise! These lights are know as  the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) colour space.

A printed image is made up from dots of ink splashed on a piece of paper. We use 4 ink colours for this, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key black. These 4 make up the CMYK colour space. The first three colours are used to reproduce colour, in a similar way to your monitor, the final ‘Key black’ is needed for practical reasons, but its not so important to this topic.

When light hits an colour ink splash on the paper, only the same colour light is reflected, which is a small part of the light which hits is. In contrast the same dot of colour on screen it a light source itself and much stronger than a reflection. So it should already make sense why printed paper would not be as bright on screen, they exist in a smaller range of brightness!

There’s also another restriction on printed images which is because the reflected light is relatively small they only produce a relatively small range of colours, perhaps a few thousand at the most. This is a big reduction from the 16 million available on your monitor! Now you don’t need to worry about this too much, our computers and printers are very good an handling these difficulties, but you should try to keep in mind the subtle details in images can be lost, for example, dark grey text on a black background that is only just visible on screen, will probably as solid black.

You cannot print light!

The next experiment, take a printed image and hold it next to the computer monitor. Now turn the lights off, which one can you see!

The fact is you cannot print light to a piece of paper. So the bright and florescent Reds, Pinks, Yellows, etc which which have so much energy can only be produced with a light behind them. The moment you convert them to print they will be much duller. There are techniques which might help a little when converting them, but really is no fix for this one. If you are designing artwork for print the ideal solution is to use the CMYK colour space from the beginning. This way there are no surprises at the end.

Other factors

The reflection of an ink splash on paper is only a close approximation of the intended colour. Even the type of light bulb in the room your in can affect the colours you see! The same is true for the type or paper you are printing on. So imagine if the the papers are different, or one of them is not paper at all, perhaps a plastic CD. Or maybe the printers are made by different companies, or use different printing technology. Variation is the prints will be expected.

Again, this is not something you need to look at fixing yourself, printers and the things they print on are carefully ‘tuned’ so they produce images as accurately as possible.

The Proof is in the pudding

So you’ve carefully designed some art, keeping in mind all the possible variations, but have you done it right?

You could ask us to check, we’re the experts right? Well yes, but even experts can make mistakes but more importantly this is the first time we have seen you art. We have no way of knowing what effect you are trying to achieve, we don’t know if you have a golden Sun tan or an orange glow, we don’t know if the car in the background should be Green or Blue, or if there way supposed to be the outline of a cat in the shadows.

So who is best placed to check this then? Easy, the same person who knows exactly what the artwork should look like…. You!

I know, we’ve gone full circle, but the solution to this problem is a proof print. Proofs are very common in the print industry and will show you exactly how the print comes out. They are not always necessary, especially if your experienced enough to know what you might receive but if this is you first venture into print, and the details for this one need to be perfect then a proof is definitely the way to go.

You can have a free hard copy proof before we print your full run ….just ask for this in the notes when you order and we will print & send you a proof copy to check and approve before we print the full run.

You can read about this here in our artwork section on the website:

https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/artwork.html

 

 

 

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