OUR INSERT COVERS
Retail-accurate replacement inserts for your physical game and film collection. PEGI-correct, printed sharp, shipped flat — because your case deserves better than a pixelated scan.
WHAT IS AN INSERT COVER?
An insert cover — also called an inlay, box art, or inner sleeve — is the paper insert that sits inside your game or film case, visible through the front and back of the clear plastic. It carries the artwork, game title, back-of-box description, ratings, barcode, and all the information that makes a case look complete.
They get damaged. They fade, tear, crease, or go missing entirely. A used game bought without a case, a disc you’ve kept for years, a trade-in that came back without the original insert — all common. Without the insert, even a perfect disc in a perfect case looks unfinished on a shelf.
We produce replacement inserts that are retail-accurate reproductions — correct ratings, correct barcode, correct layout — printed sharp and flat so they slot straight into your existing case and look exactly as they should. We also produce inserts for games released digitally-only that never had physical packaging at all.
By default we ship just the insert. But on applicable listings you can add an optional case at a special discount — or even a matching slipcover if one’s available — so you can complete your copy in one order.
THE PROBLEM WITH WHAT'S OUT THERE
Search for replacement inserts on eBay and you’ll find plenty of listings. UK sellers, reasonable prices. What you’ll also find — usually only after it arrives — is that most of them are ESRB-rated. ESRB is the North American rating system. If you’re in the UK, your game should have a PEGI rating. Putting an ESRB-rated insert in a UK game case looks wrong immediately to anyone who knows what they’re looking at.
This happens because most sellers don’t own the game, don’t scan anything, and don’t create anything. They find whatever image they can online — usually a US press scan — and print it. Quickly, cheaply, and without caring whether the rating, barcode, or back-of-box text matches the version you actually own.
Beyond the ratings issue, the quality is often genuinely poor. Pixelated artwork from low-resolution sources. Muddy colours from uncalibrated printers. And — perhaps most bafflingly — inserts that arrive folded in half with a crease straight down the middle. We’ve bought them. We’ve seen it. It makes no sense for something that’s supposed to go inside a case flat.
We built what we wished existed: PEGI-correct, high-resolution, carefully printed inserts that arrive flat and look right.
HOW WE MAKE THEM
Every insert we produce is built from scratch in Adobe InDesign using our own carefully measured templates, with artwork managed in Illustrator and Photoshop. We work in GRACol CMYK colour profile at 1200 DPI — the same standard used in commercial print production — so colours are accurate and consistent, not guesswork.
For most titles we source high-resolution official artwork — front cover, back panel, spine — and rebuild the design element by element. Typography is matched or recreated in Illustrator. Barcodes are accurate to the specific release. The result is retail-accurate to the point where customers regularly tell us they can’t tell the difference between ours and the original.
For older games or obscure releases where official high-res artwork simply doesn’t exist, we scan physical copies ourselves using a premium scanner, then upscale and denoise with AI tools before rebuilding the design. We don’t use random scans found online — everything we scan we scan ourselves, and every scan gets edited before it goes anywhere near a print file.
Artwork Research
We source the highest quality official artwork available for the specific release and region. For UK titles this means PEGI-rated packaging — not ESRB, not a US press scan. For obscure or older titles, we scan our own physical copies with a premium flatbed scanner.
Template & Dimensioning
Each format has exact physical dimensions. Our insert templates are built from measured specifications — fold lines, panel widths, spine depth — so the finished insert fits the case correctly on the first attempt without adjustment.
Design Rebuild in InDesign
We rebuild the design from scratch: artwork placed at full resolution, typography matched or recreated in Illustrator, barcode verified against the release. For older games, AI upscaling and denoising is applied before artwork is placed. Everything is intentional.
GRACol CMYK Colour Management
All artwork is converted to GRACol CMYK profile before print — the same colour standard used in commercial packaging production. This is why our colours are accurate rather than approximate. Preflight checks cover resolution, bleed, and overprint before anything goes to print.
Print & Inspection
Printed at 1200 DPI on calibrated equipment. Every insert is checked before packing — colour accuracy, sharpness, and edge quality are all reviewed. If it doesn’t look right, it doesn’t ship.
Flat-Pack Dispatch
Shipped flat in a “Please Do Not Bend” cardboard-backed envelope. Not folded, not rolled, not padded. If you order with an optional case, the insert ships already inside it, ready for your disc. Either way, it arrives in exactly the condition it left us.
PRINT QUALITY & HOW IT ARRIVES
We print on specialist silk finish paper — not standard office stock. It holds colour accurately, produces sharp edges on fine text, and folds cleanly without cracking. Every insert goes through machine scoring on all fold lines before it reaches you, which means crisp folds and no stress marks on the paper surface.
Silk finish sits between gloss and matte — deep colour without the over-reflective sheen of gloss, and far more detail retention than uncoated stock. The back-of-box small print, the ratings logos, the spine text — all sharp and readable at the sizes they’re supposed to be.
Printed at 1200 DPI with a colour-accurate ICC profile matched to our paper stock. The colour you see in the design is the colour you receive — no unexpected shifts, no oversaturated results, no muddy shadows from poor colour management.
Every insert is shipped flat in a cardboard-backed “Please Do Not Bend” envelope. We’ve tested what competitors ship and found inserts folded in half with a crease down the middle — which is baffling for something that goes inside a flat case. Ours arrive uncreased and ready to slot straight in.
If you order an insert with an optional case addon, it ships already inside the case, so your disc goes straight in when it arrives. The case itself is a standard PS5 replacement case — same dimensions as retail, same fit.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Paper Type | Specialist silk finish |
| Print Resolution | 1200 DPI |
| Colour Profile | GRACol CMYK, ICC calibrated |
| Fold Scoring | Machine scored, anti-crack |
| Packing | Flat, cardboard-backed “Please Do Not Bend” |
| Rating Format | UK-PAL / PEGI (NTSC on select titles) |
| Optional Addons | Replacement case · Matching slipcover |
THE FINER DETAILS
We primarily produce UK-PAL PEGI-rated inserts because that’s where we’re based and what our customers need. Some titles are also available in NTSC format — check the individual listing. We won’t make an ESRB version and call it suitable for a UK game, because that’s exactly what we’re trying to fix.
Digital-only titles — games released exclusively on the PlayStation Store with no physical version — can still have a physical case and insert. We produce inserts for these too, built to retail specification. Since there’s no official barcode to reproduce, these carry “FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY” in place of the barcode. Everything else is retail-accurate.
Alternative artwork inserts are also available for select titles — cases where we felt the official box art wasn’t the best representation of the game, or where a fan-favourite piece of artwork deserved to be on a shelf.
We don’t take commissions or custom requests. We’re a small operation focused on quality over volume, and we can’t promise timelines on bespoke work. If you need a custom insert designed to our print spec, we work alongside MedsCoverEmporium on Etsy — a designer who uses our templates and matches our quality standard. Once a design is ready, we can print it.
READY TO COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION?
Browse our full range of slipcovers — retail replicas and custom designs — for PS5, PS4, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD. Every one designed from scratch, printed on specialist silk finish paper, and shipped flat in a rigid protective envelope so it arrives exactly as it left us.
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Get in touch. We take requests for both replica and custom designs, and we’re always happy to discuss what’s possible.