Publicity: Autonomous selection of discs

From the software CD that we bought from the software store, we can see that its printing surface, that is, the surface of the disk is printed very beautifully. If ordinary users want to print their own discs, what should they do? In fact, the printing of optical discs does not necessarily require the use of professional machines. Here I will introduce several common methods for printing optical discs.

1, thermal transfer method

It is relatively simple to use thermal transfer method to print the disc surface. The most important point is that it does not require plate making. Everyone may know about thermal transfer from printing a personalized T-shirt. However, the market price of thermal transfer paper is generally more expensive. The price of one of the cheapest A4 format thermal transfer papers is also more than 4 yuan. The equipment requirements are also higher. The thermal transfer ink is an oily one. Ink, the print head of the printer is a piezoelectric type. The piezoelectric print head extrudes the ink droplets by applying a voltage to the piezoelectric crystal to change the size of the piezoelectric crystal.

2, adhesive stickers

In the computer city, we will find that there are a lot of circular adhesive stickers that are sold exclusively for sticking onto the disc surface. The sticker is placed in the printer for printing. After printing, it can be pasted on the disc surface, but this method Compared to the thermal transfer method, it is relatively backward, because the adhesive stickers on the disc are relatively thick, and sticking to the disc will be very obvious. Also, there may be a problem that the center of gravity of the optical disc changes after the sticking up.

3, the use of printable CD disk printer

Now there are some printers on the market that can directly print on optical discs. For example, Bravo SE of Primera Mayer and its newly introduced 4100 series can directly print compact discs, but not all compact discs can print with this kind of printer. It only Can print the specified disc, the surface of the disc has a coating that can absorb ordinary ink.

4, using a CD-ROM printer

Optical disc printers are not very common in the market. They are used exclusively for printing optical discs, such as Primera's fully automatic disc production equipment.

In the above, four common methods for printing CDs by ordinary users are introduced. Of course, the vast majority of commercially available CDs are printed using screen printers or offset printers. However, as printer technology for printable discs continues to mature, the cost of consumables will continue to decrease.

The quality of disc printing removes print elements, and the level of graphic design is also important. Now many of my friends are proficient in Photoshop and other graphic design software. There are also many softwares on the Internet designed specifically for CD covers, such as SureThing. Using these softwares, beautiful CD covers can be produced.

Although the quality of discs printed by inkjet printers is not as good as that of offset presses, because it does not require plate making and has a high resolution, it should become the mainstream method for disc surface printing. I hope everyone can print a beautiful CD cover.