Environmentally
Friendly Choices
No matter which
way you choose to say it...
Eco-friendly, Eco-conscious, Green,
Earth-Friendly, Environmentally-Friendly, Eco-Conscious, Sustainable, or scores of
other monikers... it's about the same thing:
Playing an active role in reducing the negative
impact we have on our environment. As a good
community and global citizen Precision Disc is proud to be be
offering an ever-expanding selection of products
that promote low-plastic, no-plastic, recycled and
even bio-degradable content. To put it more
simply... "greener products".
Precision
Disc Goes No-Plastic With The 'EcoCase'
Precision
Disc is proud to offer a completely plastic free packaging
alternative for CD and DVD. The EcoCase! Take
one of our standard Digipak designs printed with
vegetable-based inks on CCNB recycled content
boardstock, then slap our EcoCase tray onto it and
what have you got? The most environmentally friendly
CD/DVD package in the marketplace with all the form
and function of a regular Digipak but with
absolutely no plastic.
Our
EcoCase tray is completely biodegradable and 100%
paper recyclable. Available in several colours
(clear is not available) the EcoTray weights 50%
less than plastic trays (which cuts down on
transport/shipping costs) and is manufactured with
85% to 90% less CO2 versus a traditional Jewel Case.
Contact us for details and pricing.

Precision
Disc
uses FSC Certified Materials
The
Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international
organization that brings people together to find
solutions which promote responsible stewardship of
the world’s forests. FSC is a stakeholder owned
system for promoting responsible management of the
world’s forests and sets international standards
for responsible forest management. The FSC
accredits independent third party organizations who
can certify forest managers and forest product
producers to FSC standards. In the past 13 years
over 90 million hectares in more than 70 countries
have been certified according to FSC standards while
several thousand products are produced using FSC-certified
wood and carrying the FSC trademark. FSC operates
through its network of National Initiatives in 45
countries.
Precision
Disc uses Vegetable-Based Inks
Precision Disc's
Offset Web Printing uses vegetable-based inks which
are less harmful to the environment than
petroleum-based alternatives. Soy and vegetable
products are used in ink for their oils, which act
as the vehicle for the ink pigments. Most
manufacturers of soy and vegetable based inks today
actually "blend" ingredients, much in the
way a winemaker will blend grapes, in order to take
advantage of the unique characteristics of each oil.
Soy and vegetable based inks are widely recognized
as the environmentally friendly choice.
Precision
Disc Offers CCNB Boardstock
Precision
Disc offers Clay Coated News Back (CCNB) as an
environmentally friendly alternative for all of our
card/board printing (eg: Digipak, Disc Sleeves, Disc
Jackets, etc.). It's a coated recycled-content
paperboard and the eco-conscious choice for
applications where a bleached sheet is not needed or
desired. It's ideal for folding packaging
applications where strength, a clean white
appearance and an smooth print surface for
eye-catching graphics are important. While CCNB is
now gaining popularity as a "green" choice
for CD and DVD packaging, lighter grades of CCNB
have been used for years in the food industry - like
cereal boxes and pasta boxes.
A
note about CCNB:
CCNB is a great environmentally friendly choice for
packaging, however, it must be noted that the
'front' side has a clean white surface for printing
but the 'back' side is the non-printing side so it
is unfinished - meaning it has a grey color to it.
You must be aware of this when specifying CCNB for
Digipak and some of our Printed Disc Jackets. Please
see the illustration below.
(A)
Most Digipaks are printed on one side only (4/0).
Using CCNB material, we print on the white 'cover'
side. This is the configuration of a standard 4panel
Digipak (our CS1000 model) before it is folded and
glued. Make note of the orientation of the front
cover, back cover and the disc tray.
(B)
Now we have flipped the Digipak over and we're
looking at the back - using CCNB material the back
side is a light grey color. This is the side that
gets glued. Now imagine taking the top-left and the
top-right panels, and folding them downwards to
overlap the bottom two panels. This is what takes
place to create the finished Digipak product.
(C)
Now that the top panels have been folded downwards
and glued in place, the printed 'front' side of the
CCNB board is visible on all sides except for one
area... the inside of the spine. If you must have
this area in white then we would have to use a
non-recycled paperboard product.
Precision
Disc Offers Chipboard Boardstock
Precision
Disc also offers Chipboard as an alternative for our
Digipak, Disc Sleeve and Disc Jacket packaging
alternatives. There is no mistaking 'chipboard'...
it's the material that has the rich brown recycled
look to it because it is uncoated on
both the front and back sides. Additionally,
Chipboard has a very interesting visual texture and
organic appearance due to the high amount of
recycled content in it.
A
note about Chipboard:
Due to Chipboard's rich brown appearance and
somewhat textured surface, it does not provide a
good finish for all designs. A colorful CMYK design
that looks good on the smooth white finish of CCNB
material will look drab and muted by comparison on
Chipboard. Best results for printing on Chipboard
tend to come from bold imagery printed with solid
primary color. Often a simple black-only print
offers the best results.
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