I wasn’t sure weather it was a better idea to use a digipack or a jewel case so I did a survey in my boarding house to discover whether more people liked their music in a jewel case or digipack. I asked 40 students and showed them the images of a jewel case and digipack I found that 26 out of the 40 students preferred a digipack presentation then a jewel case. Here are some pros and cons of digipacks which I found on a forum using Google as a research method.
-They look nice, and many bands and labels like to use them for aesthetic reasons. The three section digipack sleeves opens up more design options because there is more room. However, they're more expensive than traditional liner notes and jewel cases.
-Digipacks don't crack like jewel cases do, but they will rip and eventually the paper begins to peel apart and separate.
-The trays in digipacks break much more often then in jewel cases. There's not as much protection since the outer portion of 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 digipack, the CD falls out of the bottom of the digipack, because unlike jewel cases, there is nothing to hold it in.
-Digipacks 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.
-However a small record company may be forced to use jewel cases because they are produced cheaper then digipacks even though they are less ascetically pleasing.
Our group decided to use a digipack in the end because they are a generally more preferable packaging according to our survey.
Digi Pack design and measurements
