Digipacks are a type of CD packaging made out of card stock or other plastic / cardboard material. Digipacks can flip open just like a book, or usually it has three parts to it, so that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left, with the CD in the centre 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.
Digipacks were first created by a company called MeadWestvaco, and their product, called Digi-Pak, is trademarked. However, as digipacks became more popular and began to be used by more manufacturers, the trademarked digipack expanded and now other media production places are using them
Digipacks have pros and cons:
Pros:
• They look nice, and many bands and labels like to use them. The three section digipack sleeves opens up more design options because there is more room.
• Digipacks don't crack like plastic jewel cases do.
• Digipacks can be more environmentally friendly than jewel cases because they can be made of recycled paper.
Cons:
• They're more expensive than traditional liner notes and plastic jewel cases.
• They will rip and eventually the paper begins to peel apart and separate.
• The trays in digipacks break much more often than in plastic jewel cases. There's not as much protection since the outer layer 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 digipack, the CD falls out of the bottom of the digipack, because unlike plastic jewel cases, there is nothing to hold it in.
• Some digipacks are not environmentally friendly due to the way they are produced / made.
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