page_title: Optical disc packaging
section_title: Paper or Tyvek sleeve
hierarchical_section_title: Optical disc packaging / Paper or Tyvek sleeve
caption_attribution_description: A Paper Sleeve with contain a CD.
context_page_description: Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs. Most packaging is rigid or semi-rigid and designed to protect the media from scratches and other types of exposure damage.
context_section_description: The simplest, least expensive package is a paper envelope. More expensive versions add a transparent window to the envelope allowing the disc label to be seen. The envelope can also be made out of spunbonded polyethylene (trade-named Tyvek). This is both more durable and less abrasive than paper. However, such packaging is rare for commercial releases due to its relative lack of protection compared with other designs, and is primarily limited to promotional and demo discs.
  It is also often used in software packages, where the box is labeled promotionally, but the disc comes in a paper sleeve (to cut costs).
caption: Paper sleeve
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