These are all variations on the 2panel theme, like this:

Very roughly these are 5 inch, or starting at 12.5cm square. But if you’ve read any other parts of our site, you’re not surprised to know that we even have variations on these! We like doing custom, and we’ve been in business for so many years, that we have lots of variety to offer.

Extra wide (like wide dvd mailers) and tall (7inch, pinch pockets) and 3inch mini disc size are also available.

Japanese style jackets (usually oversized, thick paper stock, OBI strips and resealable bags) have become a popular version of 2pp Jackets. Be sure to check out our page on releasing your Japanese LP style title :Japanese-LPs-CD-Jacket-OBI-Packaging

If you need to include a booklet or an inner sleeve, we’re going to need to go a touch bigger, like this:

Inner sleeves can be white windows, or plain white, or we can do colors (black and parchment are popular), and we can print the sleeves 1C or 4C.

If you’re holding a larger booklet and / or a inner sleeve, you’re going to need to go to a modified spine so it has the thickness required. Sometimes we refer to this as an LP style.

Check out our special LP Page for packaging features and options
and our LP/Vintage and LP/Retro

One doesn’t normally think of gluing a booklet to a 2panel, but it certainly can be done. Note that the jacket is just a bit oversized to accommodate it. Optionally the booklet could be a touch undersized.

Our standard paper stock – contains 20%-30% recycled content. Recommend for special effects printing.
Our Truly Eco paper stock – contains 70-80% recycled content and post consumer waste. A bit softer.
Our fiberboard – lovely unbleached , brownish material, slightly fuzzy texture, uses end of chain material/pulp so very Eco.

Uncoated Papers – for that matte," feel me, touch me" look.

And we can do all kinds of thickness too. If you need additional choices, ask, but these cover just about everything you might want to create. What don’t we use? We don’t use individual sheets of paper that you might pick up in a stationary store, for example. We use big rolls of paper.
Here's some additional information on paper stocks :
Art Department: Special Paper Stocks
Featured Title- Molly (uncoated paper stock with soy inks)
Featured Title - Magic Mama- fiberboard stock
Shop by Packaging: Eco Jackets
Shop by Packaging: Fiberboard Jackets
Style: Eco & Organic

For USPS mailing, you can actually just shrinkwrap a jacket and mail it, or you can consider using a zipper strip. SEE our MAILER PAGE for more examples.
Some key considerations for you are – how will you be doing the addresses?
Handwritten? On sticker or on jacket?
Ink jetted Printed directly on jackets? Or printed labels?
Let us know so we can guide you on the details and help you as much as possible.

We tend to call jackets that have a special zipper pull, mailers. These too come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.

You may want to see our special mailers page for packaging features and options and of course, photos!

Example: Hot Foil Stamping:

Example: Metallic ink
(very matte)and embossing.

Featured Title FreezePop has some great hot foil stamping effects.

Example: Spot Gloss

Featured Title Subswara has some beautiful spot gloss examples in it.

For more examples of special printing effects, check our our Art Department - Special Printing Effects page.

Disc Varnish:

See Art Department, disc printing - for tips on how to set this up in your artwork.

We can do cd, dvd5, dvd9, dvd10, clear substrate discs, vinyl discs, recordables, mini discs, and even flexible dvds! USBs as well.

Our replication includes a glass mastered test disc, fully printed. We’ll send that along with a color matchprint of your jacket. It takes us about a week to make the glass master, set up the press, run one, print it, and FedEx it to you. During that time we also print out the jacket matchprint. So if you have time, allow for a week in your schedule so that you can test your replicated disc, and make sure the printing is coming our right on the disc and packaging.

Production only takes about a week. The discs go very quickly and the 2pp jackets about 5 days.
Assembly & Shrinkwrap are included, very roughly that takes another day.

We generally say that projects take 2-3 weeks – some art editing, the pdf proofing, the physical proofing, the production, and the shipping back to you. If you have a particular in hand need date, just let us know. We don’t charge for rush schedules and we’re very good at making them happen. We may need to adjust the proofs and bypass them or do emails only. Art ahead of master gives us extra options to play with.

By the way, discs include 5C offset printing - the very highest quality there is, and it comes-with.

We’ve had a lot of requests from clients who want to hang a disc in some sort of package off of a piece of clothing. Here’s a special hangtag we can recommend. This one was done with a printed sleeve and a booklet, in a vinyl sleeve:

We can also do bottle necks, for bottle of course.
SEE OUR RETAIL PAGE

See Eco jackets
See Fiberboard Jackets
See Styles: Whimsical Notions
See ART DEPARTMENT: proofing Process
See ART DEPARTMENT: Disc Printing for special things you can do with the disc.

Template Creation
Templates are created and sent out when an order is officially placed and the job is set up. Custom Dies take us a little longer.

Disc Manufacturing & Packaging
Disc replication projects include CD or DVD glass master manufacturing, full color disc printing, packaging, assembly, and shipping. Projects do not have overrun charges. Printed packaging is generally full color/cmyk unless special pantone inks are being used.

Test Disc & Color Matchprint — Proofing starts with pdf softproofs and progresses to hardcopy proofsets with a glass mastered test disc and color matchprint.
Additional options: Unprinted Mockups and Press Proofs. Be sure to check out our proofing process page!

MINIMUM QTY ORDER IS 300 / 500 UNITS
If you need a small quantity order of packaging only, you might check out our Surplus Unprinted Packaging Page