information handling system 10 configured to manage optical disc labeling by an optical disc drive 12 information handling system 10 includes processing components such a processor that runs applications that generate information to write to an optical disc 14 optical disc drive 12 writes information to and reads information from optical disc 14 with a laser pickup unit 16 write operations of laser pickup unit 16 are managed with a write engine 18 write engine 18 includes a data engine 20 that manages data writes to the storage side of optical disc 14 and a label engine that manages label writes to the non storage or label side of optical disc 14 data writes occur with optical disc 14 in a storage orientation having the storage surface of the storage side exposed to laser pickup unit 16 label writes occur with optical disc 14 in a label orientation having the label surface of the label side exposed to laser pickup unit 16 read operations of laser pickup unit 16 are managed with a read engine 24 read engine 24 includes a data engine 26 that reads data from the storage surface of the storage side of optical disc 14 when in the storage orientation information read by data read engine 26 includes information stored in the storage region of optical disc 14 the embedded information stored in the storage region and bar code identification information inked on the surface of either the storage side or the non storage side in order.