CD digipak obi strips
We can produce obi strips in-house to wrap around your standard four page digipaks or eco four page digipaks with a single disc tray, adding a collectors element to the digipaks and also helping to keep them closed until removed. These obi strip ‘bands’ are also easily replaced after use for easier storage.
The obi strips originate from Japan (their name comes from the sash worn around a Kimono) on CDs, cassettes, books, games or vinyl releases where presentation of the item is important and they can contain useful additional information such as barcodes (to avoid spoiling the artwork on the item itself with a barcode), tour dates and pricing. CD digipak obi strips have often become collectors items and can greatly enhance the value of a release if retained. Our obi strips are not fixed to the cases at all, so will not be damaged when removed, they just slip off the cases and can be replaced again afterwards.
Our obi strips are full colour printed onto a high quality 200gsm matt card. By request we can also print onto brown Manila, recycled and heavyweight gloss or matt card stocks, although they will add a little to the unit cost.
To add an obi strip to a release, the unit prices are as follows:
- £23.76
Inc. VAT - Full colour printed 30mm width obi strips on 200gsm matt card stock, includes gluing and fitting.
- UK delivery £7.95, Worldwide option
- 5-8 day turnaround
- £41.40
Inc. VAT - Full colour printed 30mm width obi strips on 200gsm matt card stock, includes gluing and fitting.
- UK delivery £7.95, Worldwide option
- 5-8 day turnaround
- £70.80
Inc. VAT - Full colour printed 30mm width obi strips on 200gsm matt card stock, includes gluing and fitting.
- UK delivery £7.95, Worldwide option
- 5-8 day turnaround
- £129.60
Inc. VAT - Full colour printed 30mm width obi strips on 200gsm matt card stock, includes gluing and fitting.
- UK delivery £7.95, Worldwide option
- 5-8 day turnaround
- £183.60
Inc. VAT - Full colour printed 30mm width obi strips on 200gsm matt card stock, includes gluing and fitting.
- UK delivery £7.95, Worldwide option
- 5-8 day turnaround
- £294.00
Inc. VAT - Full colour printed 30mm width obi strips on 200gsm matt card stock, includes gluing and fitting.
- UK delivery £7.95, Worldwide option
- 5-8 day turnaround
Some examples of our work:
CD digipak obi strip artwork template download (also suitable for editing in Photoshop)
The pink line in the artwork is the cut edge of the obi strip and the blue dashed line is where the perforated folds are. Please extend any backgrounds 2-3mm outside of the cut edge to create a bleed margin. The PDF template should open up in Illustrator or Photoshop for example as a 300dpi CMYK graphic. Please ideally send over the completed PDF to us once ready, or flattened bitmap images (e.g. JPEG, PNG, TIFF) can be sent if you prefer, but please hide the guideline layer before exporting so that it does not overlay your artwork.
How to order
When placing your order, please let your account manager know that you wish to add the obi strips to the release and send over the completed artwork for it (along with any specific instructions on positioning the strips if you have a preference) and we will then add them to your order and invoice.
Payment for orders
Payment is required before despatch of the order. Once we have received your artwork files (and audio contents if also being recorded) and verified that they are ready for production then we will email an invoice across to you that can be paid by cheque, BACS, PayPal or credit/debit card. The card receipts and VAT receipt will then be included with your order.
Cassette name place holders and letter racks
Available now on our sister site, RetroStyleMedia.co.uk are some unique items that we have developed ourselves, including a cassette tape letter rack and cassette tape name place holders that are each available with 32 different mix and match cassette tape colours to help fit your décor or colour scheme. Just click on a picture below to visit the relevant page to view pricing and options:
Any questions?
There are often many questions that customers may have that are not answered above, in which case please do not hesitate to pick up the phone or email us and we will try to help. Our contact details can be found here.
We also have an extensive CD and cassette production FAQs section which may help to answer your questions.