As a way to finish the brief, after submitting my designs, I decided to digitally print my vinyl sleeves onto gloss paper and using tabs on the page, fold over to produce a 7" vinyl sleeve.
Stock choice:
I chose to use a glossy, photo paper stock as I felt it would give Lorde's sleeve design the best out come, knowing that glossy paper had a high quality finish and colours were deep and rich on this stock.
Lorde's vinyl sleeve looks very professional, once printed, in my opinion, the colours have lots of hue, are deep and rich, and the photograph is excellent quality and has a great brightness and contrast to it.
The Black Sabbath design looks very good quality also, with the shining gloss making that black and white contrast even more evident.
Ideally I would have preferred to print this design onto a different stock, which was more fitting, but Gloss stock is fine for it's function at the moment.
Problems encountered when printing
After printing and cutting out my piece I noticed that it had various light pink lines running vertically down the print, I wondered why this was and asked the print technician, he offered to re print me my piece, but because a printed version isn't a mandatory requirement and the lines are only very faint, I refused.
After using spray glue to stick the vinyl's tabs together, I decided to use a wet wipe to remove the excess glue from the design, the wipe must have contains too harsh chemicals, which were eating away at the ink on the gloss paper:
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