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I have labeled 400 individual DVDs by hand for a client, so as you can imagine I can’t wait until all blank CDs, DVDs and the rest of them are pre-labeled and you can write or print directly onto them. They are on the market and coming down in price quickly, but not easy to find in stores. You have to order the better quality printable DVDs and CDs from bulk media outlets on the internet. And if you aren’t lucky enough to own or need a professional duplicator like the Primera Duplicator/Printer (that makes 100 DVD copies at a time) you will need to head off to your office supply store and find the “by hand” labeling systems. Over the last 2 years I’ve been through just about every label software, label sticker and CD and DVD type out there. Trust me, the labeling process is far worse than editing the actual video. I almost had an intimate relationship with Avery Label Company and an HP printer customer service guy, as I tried to get the two to work together. I ruined several packets of very expensive labels trying to resolve a problem that HP eventually said wasn’t resolvable. So I’ve surmised that all these media labels and new media formats are difficult for the printer companies and the label companies, let alone the consumer. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and not print “Family Reunion DVD” on the margins instead of on the label!
So, with media labels you can’t just buy the labels, print them and stick them on easily. There are certain label brands that work best with certain printers, several kinds of labels and several different plastic devices to help you stick them on accurately (and several of them you would quickly want to throw to the ground and stomp into bits even though you just paid $20-$40 for the labeling starter kit).
My picks for labeling CDs and DVDs:
Epson Stylus Printer
Neato Applicator
MediaFace Software
Fellowes Labels
I’ll summarize first — I love my Epson Stylus that prints directly onto DVDs/CDs and does a great job with label sheets.
For label software, even though they are both good, I prefer creating a label with Fellowes/Neato/MediaFace over Avery. With MediaFace software you can manipulate graphics and images more easily. For the life of me I can’t figure out what the relationship is between Fellowes/Neato/MediaFace but they all seem to have combined for a really good labeling product.
Hands down, the NEATO CD Label Applicator works the best. The label fits over that center core and you press the CD onto the sticky side of the label. You have to work hard to mess that up. I looked for another applicator style (which shall remain nameless) that was horrible. It looks like all the label companies have finally copied the Neato type, which was also made as the Stomper brand a few years ago.
In depth, let’s start with label software and the label brands. Marketing evidently works because the first software I considered was the one with market saturation. Avery. Everybody has it, all offices use some type of Avery label and that’s the brand carried by the big stores. (That’s another big problem with media labels … you can’t find a good variety in the stores … more about that later on). So I thought, Avery Labels must have Avery downloadable software on their website and they did. For the most part, I like Avery but I’ve discovered they don’t do media labels as well Fellowes/Neato. Also, when my HP printer was pulling one label through correctly and the next one 1/2 inch too high (consistently over 50 tries…very frustrating), and I was wasting label sheet after expensive label sheet, the Avery customer service wasn’t as helpful as they should have been. The Avery software is easier to use initially but when you try to do anything complicated, like put a picture on the label, it just doesn’t work like a good graphics program should.
All the labels, Memorex, Fellowes, Neato (you will run across those too) and Avery all seem to interchangeably print with each others software. So I have no idea which brand is better. And when you buy them at Best Buy, for instance, you would think they’d carry several brands right? No, they show Avery and Memorex on their website but no Fellowes. That brand you have to get at an office supply store like Office Depot.
And that sentence makes this a good time to warn you about online CD/DVD wholesalers without a brick and mortar store. Yes, the prices look very attractive and they often have items you can’t buy at Best Buy, like mini CDs and CD business cards (finding those labels was worse than locating hens teeth). So I was forced/enticed to order minis and CD business cards and their sleeves from an internet store. They didn’t have CD business card labels so I had to get them from another company. When I put the labels on the CD business cards the labels were too big! I needed to make 100 so I had to trim each CD business card with an exacto knife. No, it didn’t look professional. Then, the business card sleeves had evidently heated to a million degrees because they were wrinkled plastic. I was so desperate I ironed one of them to see if it helped. That is the last time I will order from an internet store where I’m not personally familiar with the people running it. I do recommend Edgewise Media, where I get the majority of my bulk VHS and miniDV tapes.
Now the printer. If you need to print lots of labels like I do (maybe you volunteer to make the church CDs or help a nonprofit with a video fundraiser), use an Epson printer and if you can afford it, the newest versions made for printing CD labels. Just because they are made for photography and video labels, makes them work better for everything media. I had a difficult time deciding between the Canon and the Epson but the Epson’s print right on the CD feature sold me.
A word of warning that comes from computer experts. Sometimes the labels that you stick on can come loose and really mess up your computer’s DVD player so make sure and smooth them out completely. With that said, let’s refer to my first sentence, please manufacturers hurry up and make the printable DVDs and CDs industry standard and bring the price down so we consumers don’t have to be label guinea pigs. There is a technology out there called LightScribe which seems to be popular among young people.
But I just did an online search for DVD/CD label systems and it’s just as confusing as it was when I started learning about labeling 5 years ago. Unfortunately, until everyone can afford a printer that prints right on CDs and DVDs, it will continue to be an inexact science.
Nancy Sutton Smith is a 6x regional Emmy winner, broadcast professional, high school, college and adult educator, webmaster and owner of Sutton Bay Media Company, a video production facility creating marketing and fundraising videos. For tutorials, help and advice about video editing, software and making home movies go to http://www.edithomevideo.com or her blog at http://www.edityourhomemovies.blogspot.com/
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Fellowes NEATO CD/DVD Labeling System Kit – CD/DVD Labeling Kit Fellowes: Kit features MediaFace 4.0 software, a simple point and click package with everything needed to create professional-looking CD/DVD labels in 30 seconds. Includes an assortment of more than 700 high-resolution importable images, user-friendly text and image manipulation tools and predefined layouts and backgrounds. Copy label/inserts designs to other labels and inserts. Open and save projects using the design wizard. Digital FingerPrinting feature retrieves track information from the Internet. Inserts title and artist directly into label. Data can be typed in for other design options. System includes MediaFACE 4.0 application, CD/DVD applicator and 150 assorted labels and booklets. Operating system requirements Windows XP Professional, XP Home Edition, 2000 (SP2 and higher), 98, 98SE, Millennium, NT 4.0 (SP6 and higher). Includes templates for Mac users. read more
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