Monday, 23 November 2015

Digipak research- Types of digipacks

Features and the Digipak with recycled tray made from sugarcane.


- Digipaks typically consist of a book like paperboard or card outer binding with one more plastic trays to hold a CD or DVD on the inside. Since Digipaks were among the first alternatives to jewel cases to be used by major record companies and because there is no other common name for Digipak-style packaging made by other companies, the term digipak is often used generically, evne when the media holder is a hub rather than a full plastic tray.

-Manufacturers have sought to reduce enviromental impact by introducing recycled components into its trays; one has announced a 100% post-consumer PET tray made from recycled bottles. Another one goes one step further by toatally eliminating the plastic tray and replacing it with a paper tray made from sugarcane and egg carton. Many pronters use recycled or sutainable material for the board stock.

TYPES OF DIGIPAKS-

Digipak-style packaging isoften used for CD sinles or special editions of CD albums and the tall DVD Digipak is used as a package for DVDs and DVD sets. Such packaging is less resistant to abrasion than jew cases, so it tends to show signs as domestic U.S printer and disc replicatoe Oasis Disc Manufacturing recommend coating the raw printed paper with a protective UV coating, ensuring greater longevity.

Altogh less vulnerable to cracking than a jewel case the disc tray inside the package remains rather brittle and is prone to cracking if the package is crushed. Digipak-style cases grew in popularity among record labels and recording artisits in the early 2000a
                                                         This is a standard 4 panel digipak.
   
This is a 6 panel digipak with the CD placement in the centre


This is a 6 panel digipak with the CD placement on the right



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