CD Duplication and Replication Steps
Those who handle CDs are pretty familiar with terms like CD Duplication and CD Replication. Both can be mentioned as CD Manufacturing. But what actually is CD manufacturing? The art of CD making is CD manufacturing. It can be performed using the follwing steps:
1. Premastering: First, ensure the CD content. This is a fundamental step to for quality mastering. Precise, high quality data is what you need.
2. Mastering: Create a glass master covered with a photosensitive layer and using a laser light, engrave all the information on it. You can prevent piracy, by engraving an International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) number on every disc produced. Prevent vacuum evaporation using a fine silver coating to the glass master’s surface.
3. Electroplating: This glass master is then transformed into a “mould” which is then used for disc pressing.
4. Pressing: When the moulds areready, CDs can now be replicated. Liquefied polycarbonate is injected into the mould and, after a few seconds of pressing, a CD with all the desired data is quickly manufactured.
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5. Metalizing: In order to make the CD readable, it is covered with a micro thin layer of aluminum. The aluminum surface acts as a mirror and reflects all the laser light back so that the information can be read properly.
6. Varnishing: To protect the CD from scratching, bending, or dropping, the discs are covered with a layer of varnish.
7. Label Printing: CD Printing is the final step of CD manufacturing. It is the printing of the label on the disc, either by a silk screen or an offset process using up to six colors.
8. Packaging: The ultimate stage of a finished product is packaging.
I have already mentioned all the necessary steps taken to manufacture a CD or a bulk at the industrial level. Hope it will help you to find out the right manufacturer or you can start manufacturing them by yourself, if you wish to.
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