Strategies For Effective Disc Design

Spot Color Inks - Spot color = mixing inks in a bucket; CMYK process = mixing colors with the eye

The Clear Inner Hub - near the center, the metal stops and severe color variation starts

The Mirror Band - a slender, highly reflective ring that can interfere with type

Printing on Silver - several ways to use the CD's reflective surface to your advantage

Limitations of Screen Printing - dot gain, tonal jump, and other gremlins

Flood Coats - like using primer before painting

Managing tonal range - when to limit ink percentages, when to clip them

Two Ink Greyscale - a trick for making a screened back image print properly on disc

Stylize! - effective artistic disc design through aggressive tweaking