Great way to label those dvd jewel cases!!!

[mazinz]

i did this close to a year ago, but i never posted it.

I buy my dvds with regular jewel cases, after burning many discs it can be a real hassle to find your movie among the several hundred you have lined up on a cd/dvd rack. Its a pain to open the jewel case, pop out the bottom and write the name of the film and then flip this over and replace, so you can see the name on the spine of the case.

well here s a super simple/practical method of labeling them quick and easy and making it reusable.

go to any office supply store (or walmart, etc) and get the newer versions of "white-out" that looks more like a regular scotch tape roll. It comes on a small reel and you push it down on whatever needs to be whited out and pull. Easier than the messy tube with the brush versions.

Well those new tape versions are skinny enough, that they fit PERFECTLY
in the spine area of a cd/dvd jewel case (goes for the slim cases as well). Now you can save time and no longer have to pop open the disc. Just go down the side of the cd/dvd case with this newer white out, and then write the name down that way. And if you ever need the case for something else its easy enough to scratch it right off-- have fun

[Moloko_Plus]

I think I'm missing something here.

1. The side-line on a slim case is about 4mm wide, not much room to write anything, but i guess it Could work. Yeah, that would probably work, if you dont need glasses and have a lot of patience.
2. Why not just get dvd-cases and print the retail cover out? Saves all the guesswork I would imagine. For the same trouble you could go through in step #1, you could do this alternatively.
3. Regular-size cd cases..who uses them anymore? A: Theyre too expensive and B: Theyre too big and clunky. I cant even find them for sale anymore. It doesn't make much sense to use a regular-sized cd case, and not print out a back label and use White Out for the spine.

[mazinz]

most people still buy dvd 10 packs and such and they come with jewel cases, their not that expensive, and you can still easily find them for sale.

1. you can still read the side of a slim case quite easily. and it took about 20 seconds to label/write, so unless you are really blind its not that hard to do.

2. dvd cases are bigger and bulkier and take up way more space. Plus unless you get them online/specialty stores, you cannot really go into your local bestbuy and pick them up. If you could im sure they would still charge you more money for them. I still dont see how you think getting/scanning the cover of the disc you want, then making sure it prints out to the right size, then cutting it out, etc, is less of a hassle then just simply using whiteout and writing it down.

3. as already stated its much easier to label the spine then sit there and make/print out a cover and waste more time doing that.

so yes, i guess you are missing something

[RottenFoxBreath]

for about £10 you could get 100 dvd cases,and print off the real covers,or make custom ones in nero or sumthing.

[mazinz]

yes but you still have the hassle of getting the cover, printing it out and then cutting it to make sure it fits the case. Why waste more ink from your printer, spend more on dvd cases and then go through the hassle of printing them out when for roughly $4.00 US , you can go get the white
out, label the spine, and write down the name.


and save a zillion times the space because its not using a completely uneccesary dvd case

[andyp1]

Yes or you can even get the slim DVD cases for less than £10 per 100 which would save a lot of space.
Your not going to find those sort of prices oin the high street. In the UK we have a large number of computer fairs which have a huge variety of cases very cheap , That's where I get mine.

[mike1061]

Thanks for the tip. I appareciate it. All tips should be appareciated, after all you don't have to use them.
Thanks Mike

[mazinz]

Its not even so much the size of the case, i just find it much easier and quicker to label my cases this way. Instead of going through the hassle of printing them out. It makes things much easier to read instead of seeing 100 tdk labels staring at me from the shelf and not knowing what they are.

I just dont have that time to sit there and print/make up a cover for every dvd i do. I just do not have that time, nor funds for the ink cartridge when it gets used up just by doing that.


So what i mentioned was a super quick and easy alternative to label the cases, as most of us have those jewel/cd cases on a shelf with the spine showing.

[mazinz]

i mean i do label the cover itself ( i just write down whats on the disc), but since my dvds are not stored flat, that doesnt help, which is why the spine-label method comes in handy and it's quick

[louthewiz]

Just get a BROTHER label maker at bestbuy or office depot or any superstore and thats it, you can make and customize the labels on dvd/cd jewel cases which i have used hundereds of times... :P

[mazinz]

that works too. Just easier to use the whiteout. If you need that cover for something else (for whatever reason), just a quick wipe and it comes right off, no sticky residue left

[Zetti]

Thanks for the tip. I appareciate it. All tips should be appareciated, after all you don't have to use them.
Thanks Mike

VERY WELL SAID

Thanks, still, I can't figure how properly it would fix to a very thin slim-case side

Lately I've been giving up buying DVD's cause of the cases, men, can't the industry idiots think about packing the discs onto something SMALLER

The regular cases take TOO much room

Zetti