Red Book ( Audio CD Standard)

If you are creating an audio CD - you must keep to the following standards:
Redbook Audio Specifications:

1. Maximum playing time is 78 minutes (including pauses)
2. Minimum duration for a track is 4 seconds
3. Maximum number of tracks is 99
4. Maximum number of index points (subdivisions of a track) is 99 with no maximum time limit

Please ensure your master is on a CD-R NOT a CD-RW

Here at I Need Media we use automatic duplicators (which duplicate up to 1,000 discs) Your master information is transferred onto the hard drive of the duplicator to ensure that every copy is an exact copy of the master.

Types Of CD Printing


1. Our Black Thermal Print is for Text and Small Logos Only. We use a Rimage Prism Printer for this process.

2. Our Greyscale Digital Print allows for full cover of the disc in any Greyscale Image (including full black). We use our Rimage Everest Thermal Printers for this process. The end result is a top qualty professional print.

3. Our Full Colour Digital Print allows for full cover of the disc . We use our Rimage Everest Thermal Printers for this process.
The end result is a top qualty professional print.

4. Full Colour Offset Print (as used at our replication factory)
With this process we can produce up to 10,000 Black CD-R Discs
( Please call for pricing )

5. Screen Printing
5. We offer Screen printing for your CD's from 1 to 5 colour.
( Please call for pricing )

Artwork Information

Click Here For Templates & Specifications

File Types We Will Take: PSD (flattened) - PDF (flattened) - TIF (flattened) - JPG
Any artwork text must be at least 5mm away from the bleed edge indicated by the dotted line.

DVD INLAY & BOOKLET SPECIFICATIONS

DVD Inlay Total Image Size Should Be 279mm X 189mm
DVD Booklet Total Image Size Should Be 246mm X 186mm
DVD Covercard Total Image Size Should Be 126mm X 186mm
IF YOUR TOTAL IMAGE SIZE IS NOT THE ABOVE YOUR ARTWORK IS INCORRECT

2 IMAGES ARE REQUIRED FOR A DOUBLE SIDED DVD INLAY
2 IMAGES ARE REQUIRED FOR A 4 PAGE DVD BOOKLET
(4 IMAGES FOR A 8 PAGE BOOKLET)
2 IMAGES ARE REQUIRED FOR A DOUBLE SIDED COVERCARD

Artwork must be: Minimum 300 dpi (CMYK) File Types We Will Take: PSD (flattened) - PDF

(flattened) - TIF (flattened) - JPG

CD BOOKLET & INLAY SPECIFICATIONS

Single Front Inlay Total Image Size Should Be 127mm X 126mm
Booklet Front Inlay Total Image Size Should Be 248mm X 126mm
Tray Inlay Total Image Size Should Be 157mm X 124mm

WITH 4 PAGE BOOKLETS AND DOUBLE SIDED TRAY INLAYS PLEASE BE SURE TO SEND 2 SEPARATE IMAGES CLEARLY MARKING WHETHER "OUTER" OR "INNER".

Artwork must be: Minimum 300 dpi (CMYK) File Types We Will Take: PSD (flattened) - PDF