Avery Full-Face CD Labels, 40 CD Labels & 80 Spine Labels (8960)

Loved everything about the transaction--ease of ordering, how quickly it arrived, great price compared to others, and more!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Avery disc labels are carefully designed and manufactured for superior performance. The paper stock accepts laser printing ink perfectly and with accurate color values. No ink smudging. The pressure sensitive adhesive is applied evenly with no coverage gaps and has superior bonding characteristics to disc surfaces. No annoying static attraction is generated when removing the labels from the backing paper. The finished labels do not curl when removed from the backer and are easily positioned above the disc, facilitating accurate placement. Labels go on with no bubbles or wrinkles. Die cutting of the label sheets is precise and corresponds accurately to the digital overlay template which is available for the sheet. Sheets are delivered dead flat and well protected by the packaging envelope, eliminating annoying paper jams.

I use Avery 5931 labels to create colorful labels for my DVDs and CDs. They are definitely preferable to writing information on the surface of the media with an indelible marker. Output on my color laser printer is outstanding due to several features of the Avery labels: they are a nice bright white; they have excellent hold out (opacity) so that if you apply them to media with a surface that has color, text, or a design put there by the manufacturer, the Avery label covers it adequately. They don't curl because of the heat from the printer, and they apply easily with no bubbles or creases. I don't mind paying a little extra for the removable labels. I've never had to remove one, but that feature is there if I need it. This may seem a bit trivial, but Avery prints text on the label stock so that it's easy to tell which side goes "up" inside the printer. I have tried samples of some discount labels that have no text on the side of the stock on which you want to print, and I have occasionally faced the labels the wrong way "up" inside the printer. I hate to waste my color toner by accidentally printing on the wrong side of the stock. "Stick" with Avery. You'll never be sorry you bought a quality product.

I was a little scared to apply them to my DVDs because I didn't buy a special labeling tool, but I was able to do it by hand quite easily after the initial fear. Just take your time - put the DVD on a flat surface, peel up the label, line up the inner circle of the label to the DVD hole, and slowly lower the label onto the DVD, working form the inner circle first, then moving out to the edges, to avoid wrinkles. The printing template is awesome!!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The labels were the prefect item for my needs. Anyone who has printed CD or DVD covers understands how difficult it can be to align them properly for printing. Using the correct Avery template with the CD labels made printing them much easier. I will buy more labels in the future, because of these products!

I can trust that these labels will stick to my cd, no matter how many times I play one in my truck or how hot it gets, I have confidence that it will never come undone. Other products, the sticker has come off with heat, not this one. Thanks Avery

This is a good product but not great. The center hole of the Avery label is larger than the hole in the CD or DVD disc. Using a fixture that is meant to align the label using the center hole (IE: NEATO or Avery) will not center the label on the disc, so it is easy to have some of the label overhanging the outer edges of the disc. Avery's online printing system has home related templates but few for office use. For example, the picture shown on the front of the Avery packaging, which is attractive, cannot be found in their printing website. 3rd party label printing software would likely provide more office related options.

The labels themselves are good quality. I found the download templates to be miserable. I purchased the labels because I expected the templates to make composing a CD label easy but found that the Adobe Illustrator template did not work with my version of AI and the Word template to be very, extremely, difficult to use, a project that is not yet complete. Many years ago I used Roxio CD software and printing labels with it was a dream. That is what I expected. I could place a photo into the print image but found adding text to be extremely difficult. Word is not the best tool for composing an image but that template was the only one that worked at all.

Would NOT recommend this product. Difficult to align, tabs 'do not' tear-off clean (as noted by other users). I have used three (3) sheets and will probably trash can the rest of the package (17 out of 20) sheets.

All was going well until I applied the label to the disc and tried to tear off the two tabs. I was unsuccessful in over 25 CD's to get the tabs to separate cleanly. They either tore off part of the label or tore off only partially. I ended using an exacto knife to trim the labels, which only made things worse as I scratched the coating of the CD itself, in some cases making them unplayable. This was VERY disappointing.