Disc Printing

Let Marcan help you determine the best disc printing technique to use for your project.

Full color label

With Marcan's proprietary full color label printing, you receive an image which is both rich in color, and durable. The image is created from a four color image (cmyk) and digitally printed on a proprietary Marcan developed label stock.

Thermal re-transfer

Thermal re-transfer refers to a method of disc surface printing where the entire label image is first transferred to a plastic transfer ribbon one color at a time. The finished image is then retransferred to the disc. Thermal re-transfer allows label designers to create designs that incorporate edge to edge printing and printing on the hub of the disc.

Silk-screen

Screen printing uses a porous mesh screen with an ink-resistant image on its surface as a template to transfer ink to substrates. A silk-screen has a resolution of 75 lines/inch, is ideally suited for pantone and 4-color CMYK process designs. Pantone or PMS colors are identified with numbers much like house paint. They are “pure pigment inks” an are mixed before they are printed. This creates a solid, rich color on your CD or DVD. The selection of pantone colors will help you achieve the best results for designs that include text and a background color on your disc.

Offset printing

If your disc art is a photograph or a full-color scan then the offset printing option delivers superior resolution and clarity. This type of printing is used only for CMYK files which require increased resolution to capture the likeness of an image. Offset printing on the disc has a higher resolution in comparison to silk-screen. It’s resolution of 150 lines per inch can create a realistic representation of a dynamic image. While the result of this process can be stunning for photographic images, it is inferior to a pantone silk-screen for trying to match rich and solid colors.