CD Packaging in Album Cases

The most popular type of CD packaging is the CD Album Case, it has been with us for as long as CD itself existed. CD manufacturer’s, distributor’s and retail shops love them as they are all fitted out to deal with this standard size of CD packaging and they also fit perfectly into your home storage units.

The CD Packaging Standard

Many alternative forms of CD packaging have been introduced over the years but the Album Jewel Case remains the number one product for music retail. We consider it a design classic.

Album Jewel Cases offer excellent protection for the disc and contains CD booklets that can range from 2 to 32 pages. This gives you plenty of space to show off your creative designs and given enough pages, can even detail all your song lyrics.

The inlay in the rear of the case is generally used for the track listings and the placement of the barcode, which is free of charge and is vital should the product go into any serious type of distribution. The spines on the side of the case give enough room for the band name and title so it can be easily read when in a CD rack.

CD in Album Cases with Printed Booklet Prices below Include:-

Glass Mastering up to 79 minutes and 40 seconds | CD Printing up to full colour (silk screen or offset-litho) | Album case with clear or black clip trays | booklet and inlay printed full colour on all pages | Barcode (if required) | Over-wrap | Delivery to one UK mainland destination.

CD 4 Page Booklet & Inlay	Quantity	Price	Template
	500	£450.00	Click image to download
	1000	£540.00
	2000	£940.00
	3000+	Contact

All Prices Exclude VAT

CD 6 Page Booklet & Inlay	Quantity	Price	Template
	500	£500.00	Click image to download
	1000	£590.00
	2000	£1010.00
	3000+	Contact

All Prices Exclude VAT

CD 8 Page Booklet & Inlay	Quantity	Price	Template
	500	£510.00	Click image to download
	1000	£600.00
	2000	£1020.00
	3000+	Contact

All Prices Exclude VAT

CD 12 Page Booklet & Inlay	Quantity	Price	Template
	500	£550.00	Click image to download
	1000	£650.00
	2000	£1080.00
	3000+	Contact

All Prices Exclude VAT

Further information on our CD Packaging in Album Case Prices

All of the above CD package prices are for what we refer to as “shop ready” CD product. What this means is that the job will be delivered retail ready with the cases and print fully packaged, the inlay with a barcode (if required, but recommended) and over-wrapped /cellophane wrapped.

Below you will find information about CD album packaging and the elements that are included in our prices. You can find more technical information on our blog, if you cant find the information you need on our site, feel free to contact us with any questions you have.

We only manufacture CD’s pressed from stampers made using the glass mastering process, we do not duplicate CD’s on recordable discs. All masters go through a thorough inspection prior to glass mastering to ensure the data is not corrupted and the master conforms to Red Book standard.

The maximum running time for an Audio CD is 79 minutes and 20 seconds, we are unable to exceed this time under any circumstances. The maximum data for CD ROM is 650mb.

The above prices also include the manufacture of Enhanced CD (Audio + Data). If you have a large amount of audio and data to be pressed on the CD please contact us to calculate the maximum audio running time with the data required.

All of our prices include printing on the CD in either full colour offset litho or up to 5 colour silk screen print. Offset litho printing is best suited to photographic printing or designs that contain a large amount of halftones and graduations. Silk screen printing is best used for large solid blocks of colour, as it gives better ink density. Silk screen colours should be selected from the PANTONE colour matching system. With silk screen print you can specify one of the colours as a spot gloss or spot matt for creative effects. CD Packaging Album Cases.  All of the above prices include a CD album case, sometimes called a jewel case. The CD tray can be black or if you require print in the reverse of the inlay we provide clear trays at no extra cost. We can also supply coloured trays, please contact us for available colours and prices.

CD Double Album Cases. If you require double CD packaging we can supply standard album cases with double CD trays. The double CD trays can be supplied clear or black and with or without “2 x CD” logo on printed on the spine.

CD Multi-boxes. If you are require CD packaging for a 3 – 4 CD compilation in one case, we can provide multi-boxes. Prices available upon request. Slip Cases & ‘O’ cards. We have a wide range of slipcases available for single and multi case box sets, and can provide ‘O’ cards for single/double album cases.

Slimline Cases. We can supply CD’s in slim-line single cases, with J-card inserts, contact us for prices.

CD Booklet Colour Printing. All of our booklet & inlays are printed full colour on all pages and both sides on the inlay if you would like a clear album case. All printing is off-set litho CMYK print, using computer to plate technology for the best possible registration. We can also print Spot / PANTONE colours on the paper parts at additional cost.

Paper type. All 4, 6, 8 & 12 page CD booklets and inlays are printed on 150g /90g  gloss paper as standard, this is the type of paper used for the majority of CD releases, as you will notice from your own CD collection. We can print on other types and weights of material, however please note that on runs less than 5000 units this will add considerable cost to the print, as we loose the economy of scale by changing the type of material that is running on the printing presses.

Additional CD Booklet Pages. We can print CD booklets up to a maximum of 32 pages. We also provide longer folding & poster style booklets.

Our package prices include provision of an EAN13 barcode. The barcode is printed on the rear inlay, it’s entirely up to you where the barcode is printed on the inlay. Please leave a space of approximately 15 x 30mm on your artwork for us to drop the barcode into. It would help if you placed some text in this area saying “BARCODE”. All CD album cases are supplied Over-wrapped / Cellophane wrapped as standard. If you do not want the cases wrapped please make this clear on your order. All prices include delivery to 1 UK mainland address, if you require delivery to multiple addresses please add £ 25.00 + VAT per extra delivery address regardless of quantity. Please contact us for prices for delivery to any non mainland UK addresses. We can also deliver internationally, prices available on request.