All masters should be clearly labelled with your company name, artist name, title and catalogue number.
You should also enclose a copy of the track listing.

Masters can be supplied in one of the following formats:

CD Masters

CD-R (burned at a xslow rate).
Exabyte with PQ Sheet.
DDPi master with PQ Sheet. (Please ensure DDPi is clearly marked on your master and order form.)

DVD Masters
DVD-R (1 per layer)
DLT

Vinyl Masters
CDR (Please complete a Label Copy Form with side breaks clearly labelled)
Lacquers
DMM

You should always keep a back up copy for your own records.

Your CD & DVD masters should then be sent to the following address:

Sound Performance Manufacturing Ltd
Halesfield 14
Telford
Shropshire TF7 4QR

Vinyl Masters should be sent to:

Sound Performance Ltd
3 Greenwich Quay
Clarence Road
London SE8 3EY

Rights clearance needs to be applied for with the PRS for Music on all cover versions and copyright material. An IRMA form needs to be filled out if the content of your disc is original music.

If you are not the owner of the recording, we will require a letter of clearance from the owner.

 

All artwork should be supplied as CTP (computer to plate) print ready PDF files in the correct printer's templates, accompanied by a completed Artwork Form

Please ensure that the pasteboard / template remains the same size as the supplied template, if dimensions are changed, cuts and folds will be in the wrong place.

You can find the size by opening the template pdf in Acrobat and hovering the cursor in the bottom left hand corner of the window.

The bleed and no text areas are clearly labeled on the templates. All full colour images should be CMYK (not RGB) at 300 dpi. Please ensure images that are to be printed in greyscale are supplied as greyscale and not CMYK.

Please ensure artwork is dropped on top of the template so that the blue guidelines do not show, the trim marks need to be left on. Glue flaps need to be whitened out (digipack / card wallet / vinyl sleeves).

If you aren’t using Quark or InDesign to set your artwork to spec and need advice please contact us.

You should always keep a back up copy of your artwork files for your own records.

 

Artwork can be supplied in 4 ways.

1) Uploaded to our FTP site in a file identified by the jobs catalogue number only please.

Please contact your Production Co-ordinator for log-in details.

2) E-mailed to your sales/production contact (we can accept e-mails up to 10Mb)

3) On CD-R clearly labeled as “artwork disc” with your catalogue number.

Your sales contact will supply you with the address to send your artwork disc to.

4) You can e-mail us file transfer website links (yousendit / sendspace for example)

If artwork is not supplied to our CTP specs, then we can amend it for you for a charge. Please contact your Sales Representative for a price.