GLOSSARY
Artwork e Packaging
All paper, cardboard, plastic and other components that contributes to the appearance of the end-product.
8cm-disk
8 cm discs are CDs with a diameter of just 8 cm and a storage capacity of approx. 192 MB – ideal for promotional actions!
Cd-card
CD cards (as thick as a credit card, the size of a visiting card) provide the ideal solution for carrying data, music, artwork or programs with you wherever you go. Successful managers will appreciate the discreet elegance of this medium. CD cards are quite simply CD-ROM media of the size of a visiting card and of the thickness of a credit card. These cards are plastic-coated, non-deformable and impact-resistant, and feature a centre hole. Use them with any reader you’d use for a normal CD-ROM to access the data. If you store programs or video games the reader must be connected to a computer. In any case, all readers can play music tracks whether at home or travelling by car. The surface of CD cards can feature customized screen printing according to all needs (single- or multi-colour labels, logos, text etc.). The fields of application of CD cards are practically limitless. Since they are inalterable, like digital CD-ROMs, you can use the card as a data storage medium – N.B. there is a maximum limit! And that’s just for starters. You can use your CD card as a ‘corporate visiting card’. It can store a company presentation, an internal telephone directory and any number of items of information required for PR purposes. Given their size, CD cards are extremely convenient for carrying data or, if you have a digital camera and writer, as a photo album. Music, too! Since they can store albums of songs, prospects are now opening up for combining CD cards and musical events, concerts, ‘sneak previews’ and so forth. The DVD version provides the perfect medium for musical or other brief video productions.
CD-R
CD-R discs are for once-only recordings. They can be used for the production of customized CDs by means of a compatible unit and recording software. CD-Rs can store about 74 minutes of audio or 650 MB of data. They are useful for data storage or superior quality audio files. You can record data either in one session or in repeated sessions (multisession). Once recorded, the data can’t be modified. Various colour solutions/formats are available for CD-Rs with differing specifications (gold for top quality, obtained by phthalocyanide pigment; blue, for a cheaper solution which is of a slightly lower quality than gold, with Azo pigment; green, cheaper, for lower quality, also more vulnerable, obtained with cyanide pigment).
CD-ROM
CD-ROMs (Compact disc read-only memory) are CDs which can be read, but which can’t be written (this is a limitation which shall soon be overcome). CD-ROMs are currently capable of storing about 600 megabytes, as opposed to the 1.4 mega content of high-density floppy disks.
Copyright statement
Copyright statements are statements to the producer that the publisher of an item of intellectual property (i.e. the customer) holds the distribution rights granted by the owner of the intellectual property.
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
DRM refers to the set of technologies used to encrypt digital content, enabling data owners to control access to their data. DRM secures distribution, promotion and sale of digital content.
Dvd
Digital Versatile Discs are high-capacity discs of the same size as a CD which can be used for video, multimedia, games and audio applications. Capacity for read-only discs ranges from 4.7 GB to 10 GB; recordable and rewritable versions have been developed. Although identical in appearance, a certain number of physical parameters of DVDs and CDs differ.
DVD-5
DVD-5 discs are made up of a sandwich of two 0.6 mm discs. One metallized disc contains the data and the other is empty. Labels can be printed onto the disc in the standard manner.
DVD-9
DVD-9 discs are made up of a semireflecting layer and a fully metallized disc. These are joined by a transparent layer. Labels can be printed onto the disc in the standard manner.
DVD-10
DVD-10 discs are made up of two metallized layers joined, and readable from both sides. Labelling is limited to the central ring area of the disc, on both sides.
DVD-18
DVD-18 discs are made up of two metallized layers each of which is composed in turn of two layers joined, and readable from both sides. Production of these discs is an extremely challenging process which requires special technological resources. Labelling is limited to the central ring area of the disc, on both sides.
DVD-r
DVD-Rs are ‘write-once’ discs with a capacity of 4.7 GB per side.
Dvd-ram
DVD-RAMs are rewritable discs with a capacity of 4.7 GB per side.
IRMA
International Recording Media Association, an international association of music and software producers. IRMA set forth the first world anti-piracy certification procedure for CD, DVD and CD-ROM producers.
Jewel box
Jewel boxes are transparent or translucent boxes used to contain and protect one or more optical disks.
Label Print
Label print refers to the surface of the disc which does not contain data and on which the customer’s design work is printed.
Mastering
Transfer of data from customer’s data source to a glass master disc prior to replication.
Serigrafia (Label printing)
Label printing is the process of printing titles and images onto a CD by 6-colour silk-screen printing process with UV radiation cured inks.
