A digipak is a type of packaging for CD's and DVD's. Digipak's are usually made out of cardstock or other heavy paper/cardboard material. Digipacks can flip open like a book, or it can have three parts, so that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left, with the CD in the center portion. Usually, the portion of the digipack that hold the CD is made of plastic like a traditional jewel case CD - the plastic part is simply attached to the paper background. Digipak's were first created by MeadWestvaco, and their product, called Digi-Pak, is trademarked. However, as the format became more popular and began to be used by more manufacturers, the generic "digipak" came to be used to describe all soft CD packaging.
Digipacks have many Pro's and Con's:
- They look nice, and many labels like to use them for aesthetic reasons. The three section digipak sleeve opens up more design options because there is more room. However, they're more expensive than traditional jewel cases.
- Digipacks don't crack like jewel cases do, but they will rip and eventually the paper begins to peel apart and separate.
- There's not as much protection since the outer portion is made of paper, so the teeth that hold the CD in place crack and fall out easily.
- When the teeth of the tray does break in a digipak, the CD falls out of the bottom of the digipack, because unlike jewel cases, there is nothing to hold it in.
- Digipaks can be more environmentally friendly than jewel cases because they can be made of recycled paper - however, they aren't always in fact made in this way.
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Josh Barrett
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Metehan Hizli
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