OEM & other cheapest car/truck stereos can be more trouble-prone, so you may be right cautioning against using labeled discs with OEM audio systems, especially if the discs are left in a hot car, & especially if you don't let the stereo cool before you insert a disc. PC CD/DVD burning drives are a sub $20 commodity, but with reasonable care I've seen them handle almost anything during their life expectancy, which in my experience is somewhere between 2 - 4 years of fairly heavy use. Balance can be an issue, but that can easily be eliminated by not for example just printing 1/2 of a disc or label, but even if your design is off balance it's not usually a problem AFAIK except in the very cheapest, lightest weight disc handling mechanisms. That said, labels do need to be correctly applied, & they do need to be high quality. I think the weight added by a good paper label is less than the silk-screened paint on some retail discs, but regardless, the thickness of DVD & Blu-Ray writable &/or printable discs varies, so I don't believe total weight is much of an issue. I still have some of the earliest labeled discs, & use them occasionally today without problems. You certainly have had some bad luck, I'll give you that, but I've not had problems applying decent brand, good quality labels to discs since the early-mid 90s when I got my 1st CD burner. You can install one that is smaller, or get lucky and find one with DVD and touchscreen that fits, but normally you will be unable to find something that is a perfect fit. This happened to me in my Ford Bronco and since the Bronco has such a weird big stereo in it, you pretty much have to get a factory set to make it look right. It will cause uneven loading, or spinning high/low, it will also cause problems with ejection because when the CD/DVD is put back into the tray internally, after spinning, it may be so uneven that it refuses to come out. When the CD/DVD gets pulled onto the spinner, it will droop on one side or the other, and thus cause issues with the player. When you put a sticker on top you are adding weight not only to the CD/DVD but you may be adding the weight unevenly. Trying to get a sticker directly to the middle of a CD/DVD is nearly impossible, but as mentioned, even if it is perfect, it can still cause the issues I will describe below. you must use a CD stomper or sticker to put on the front of the CD or DVD. printing to paper labels which are then stuck onto optical media to be played in modern drives is simply not to be recomended, modern drives spin so fast they stress standard media on its own significantly and have been known to cause only slightly damaged media to shatter inside drives, adding an inferior material like paper glued by non-professional methods with less than perfect alignment with no ability to measure and adjust the balance of the final product is just asking for wrecked spindle bearings at best and mangled drive mechanisims at worst, create case inner linings by all means but don't do anything to alter the optical media geomitry just to prettify the discs, get the discs printed professionally or use lightscribe discs and the free lightscribe design software packages found on the lightscribe website or if you are fortunate enough to have a CD/DVD print facility on your printer use that. Is this in any way an improvement over the bundled CD/DVD printing design software that comes with certain epson printers that print directly to printable white or clear media? And will this work with such printers.
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