You need a printer that has a tray specifically for printing on discs.
bummer. I guess I’ll go get the Sharpie then.
Or you can, despite them being printable, buy adhesive CD labels and print disc art on those.
It’s what most of us do, I’d imagine.
only use adhesive labels if you want your disc to be unusable in a year or two. the adhesive warps the disc when it dries.
What? No.
I’m extremely skeptical about this.Not that I bother with it much though since I have a media server.
This absolutely happens. I printed labels and put them on many discs ~15 years ago. All the discs with printed labels became trash, and everything stored properly is still fine (the labeled ones were definitely otherwise stored well, as they were in individual cases).
You need a printer that has a tray specifically for printing on discs.
bummer. I guess I’ll go get the Sharpie then.
Or you can, despite them being printable, buy adhesive CD labels and print disc art on those.
It’s what most of us do, I’d imagine.
only use adhesive labels if you want your disc to be unusable in a year or two. the adhesive warps the disc when it dries.
At work I’ve seen what adhesive can do to burnable media over time, it is not pretty (and I’m talking like just scotch tape… there were visible “waves” out from it in dye on the other side). Not to say that every adhesive will do the same with every disc, but it has certainly given me great pause in ever considering doing the same at home to anything I care about. Inkjet printable is as far as I go, and I’ve done so with surprisingly good results on a very affordable epson printer, which you wouldn’t even know has a CD tray unless you look just right…
As far as the effect of the label drying, it was the biggest problem for CDs. CD surface/label layer is the data layer. If you damage it, or write on it with pencil or rip it off with a label, that’s your data you’re removing.
DVDs and BDs have their data underneath the plastic rather than on/under the label. So I think the main risk for them is unevenly weighting the disc or having it peel off and get stuck in a drive. I’ve never had a label on a BD-R. But at least for DVD-Rs, those things were already poorly read by many drives and didn’t need anything else causing them trouble!