As discussions in forum "Sticky labels can screwup the playback of your DVDR's", a lot of people including me suffered from sticky label problem. After labeling, data closing to the DVD edge will fail to read out. Many wonderful discussions about the reasons also have been posted in that forum. The main reason is the disk warping after labeling due to the unbalanced heat cofficients on both sides, which has been verified by many reseach and testing. However, there is no guide yet on how to solve this prroblem in that forum.

Here I would like to give a complete guide on how to label an DVD without this trouble and how to rescue failed labeled DVDs. So far, by these methods, I have successfully labeled any DVDs and rescue all DVDs failed.

- How to label DVDs with sticky label
No special tricks for label printing. When the label printing is done, put your label on DVD by the following steps:

You don't need to use labeling kit to label, by a little bit more attention, label should be well aligned. Now, put your DVD on a clean surface, hold DVD label's edge by your fingers and align the label edge with DVD edge and stick just 4 to 5 cm long DVD edge with DVD edge. Note, just stick very narrow edge for positioning but not big area. Now leave your fingers from the label, hold up the DVD. Bend the DVD towards laser side(oppsite to label side). While the DVD is bending, the label will automatically attached to the DVD surface. The tips here are, don't stick label to surface by pushing it directly, instead bend DVD to let label stick on. By this way, the label will stick on a pre-warped DVD surface, which will prevent later on the laser heat during the play causes DVD to warp towards the label side.

- How to rescue a failed labeled DVD
If you have some DVDs already failed with label, you don't to tear label off. The following steps can completly save them. Sometimes the way of puting on label introduced in the beginning dose not work perfectly for some disks, especially for data closing to the edge, the following steps will solve the problem.

Blow the hot air using hair dryer towards the DVD label surface, especially its edge part. While heating the surface, you bend the DVD towards the laser side. Turn the DVD around to bend the DVD for all directions. This will rescue the failed labeled DVD. The tips here are, the heat soften the glue of label, then bending DVD caused the label stick on a pre-warped surface. This pre-warped room will kill later heat warping on the oppsite direction.

Some other tips related on labeling:
- What kinds of DVDs are easy to label
The DVDs with thin printing paint are good for labeling with less failure. The best choice will be DVDs without printing on surface. In addition, DVDs with unified printing surface are better for labeling than those with ununified printing surface. This means printable DVDs with unified white printing surface are also good for labeling.

-Adjust compression rate for labeling
The disk warping causes the data closing to edge hard to read out. Therefore, while burning DVD, if you adjust compression rate to make disk not to be fully burned so that data stays in the central part, the DVD will be easy to label. However in most of cases, this sacrifice of quality is not necessary because the two methods described in the beginning should solve the problem completely.