Label Design And Specifications

Customer furnished film or label art files are inspected by the receiving inspection department to guarantee image reliability. If deviations are intentional please indicate that in writing.

eDocPublish.com will make changes to your designs upon request. Labor is priced according to our standard hourly rate. Any changes to the artwork will delay the production time by at least 48 hours. eDocPublish.com requires final customer approval on any changes made.

• Avoid using screen tints lower than 15% or higher than 85%.
• Consider using a light color rather than a low screen tint to produce a ‘ghosted’ image.
• Avoid dropping text out of all halftones including process color imagery. Consider adding a spot color for text on top of a four color process image instead of using drop out text in order to maintain readability. Please contact your Project Coordinator for pricing for number of colors used.
• All process color inks are transparent and will take on a metallic quality when printed directly over the aluminum-coated data area of a CD.
• Different amounts and consistencies of ink are required to achieve quality results with halftone dots and solid cover.
  we recommends that the mixing of solid color and halftone printing within the same piece of film is minimized. Please contact your Project Coordinator for pricing for number of colors used. Designing halftone and solid cover areas in different colors or separate color on two separate pieces of film.
• All images will be printed on the silver reflective disc unless indicated that a spot color background needs to be printed first. For images that appear white on a white paper proof, please indicate if these areas are to be printed in white or the reflective silver disc.
• Explore the design possibilities offered by printing directly onto the silver surface of a CD.
• Approximately 41.0 mm inside the data area there is no aluminum coating. This may change the appearance of an image due to the change in background.
• Small text may fall over an intersection of the mesh fibers, rather than on a gap in the mesh, resulting in ‘broken’ text. For acceptable legibility, one-color, drop-out text should be no smaller than 4 points. For multiple-color, drop-out text should be no smaller than 6 points when the drop out areas are intended to overlap.
  The use of serif type faces for small text is not recommended. You should not use positive text smaller than 3 points.
• Consider using bold type or all caps to increase the legibility of small text.