The vinyl jacket is making a comeback. Vinyl pressing companies and independent designers are making vinyl jackets their business these days. Both offer single vinyl jackets or large quantities of plain or full-color screen-printed jackets for your full size vinyls or smaller jackets for your CDs.

The comeback of the vinyl jacket is in direct relation to the appeal of the old LP jackets and an appreciation for the old, and becoming rare, big vinyl recordings. It is the art, the visual experience, of the LP vinyl jacket and the act of searching through stacks of old LPs for the hard-to-find vinyl recordings that is turning young people on to vinyl jackets. Another reason for the comeback of the vinyl jacket is the music itself. It is the exceptional art of the mid 20th century music that music lovers are recognizing and appreciating today. The innovative styles of the music, the individual vocalists’ renditions and styles, the originality of the lyrics, and the technological developments that improved sound quality throughout the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s is of significance to today’s music buffs.

Besides enjoying the art of both the music and the vinyl jacket, listeners are also enjoying becoming engaged with the LP, that is, physically handling the record and the vinyl jacket – the removing of the record from the vinyl jacket, the setting of the record on turntable, the placing of the needle onto the record, flipping the record over to play the other side, and caring for the record and the vinyl jacket.

Vinyl jackets are also works of art to musicians who enjoy handling their own recording and promotional processes at home. Recording artists can select from company templates or design their own vinyl jackets and send their software files to these companies, who can tweak designs and reproduce vinyl jackets in small or large quantities. Companies that manufacture vinyl jackets have preferences and restrictions on software with which they work. Discussing company policies and reproduction processes will set designers of vinyl jackets in the right direction.

Vinyl jackets are also made for old LP recordings by those who are really into vinyl jacket art. Glossy white die-cut jackets are made with or without die-cut holes, and personally designed full-color vinyl jackets for old LPs can be designed and reproduced to the art lover's specifications. When playing those old LPs or new CDs, music appreciators can hold the vinyl jacket in their hands and study their art for a complete sensual experience of listening and looking at the same time.

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