Friday, 23 June 2017

Digipak's the history of them.



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Digipak's became popular in the early 2000s amongst the record labels and the record artist as a alternate to jewel cases.It is often used for premium/ special CDs. The downsides of a digipaks compared to a jewel case is that they show signs of wear very quickly compared to jewel cases.
The original owners of the digipak was IMPAC after being sold then folded the rights to the term digipaks was sold to different companies world wide. Digipaks are custom made out of cardboard that can hold more than one disc which are held in place with plastic trays that are glued to the cardboard. Although digipaks are not commonly used anymore they still give the product a expensive professional look and feel. A 6 panel digipaks allows a lot of space to express a art style or mood on the digipak with embossed text also to give it a unique different feel.

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