Wow. I bought some labels to do some last minute Christmas stuff and holy crap - they suck! Every disc (only did 10, thank the maker) was completely unreadable. I'll just wait 'til my printable media gets here Tuesday. I'd rather gift late than gift crap. I'll be returning this junk to the store.

I used Matte-finish Memorex CD Label Refills. I used an empty spindle to align the labels then carefully, slowly, and firmly applied them to avoid bubbles.

It's worth mentioning that the hub-ring label works fine. Here's an 8x scan for "baseline" and a 16x scan I tried as a "stress" test, both with the center label on. Typical, acceptable scans from my drive. (Disc burned on an LG 4166@8x).