Ugh! These things SMELL HORRIBLE!
I've burned a lot of discs in my day, all different kinds, brands, formats, etc.
NONE of them has EVER smelled this BAD.
Kind of like a paint / varnish smell, but multiplied by HORRIBLE.
The earlier batches of PlexDisc White Printable discs that I got before didn't smell like this.
Thinking about sending them back, just so I don't have to smell them.
Edit: The coating has a kind of rubber-ish consistency, and writing on it with a sharpie doesn't want to work so well. They've definitely changed the white coating on these discs.