It's only really going to work well on a flat top, unless you use a very stretch substrate to print your design on, otherwise you have all the worries of trying to fit a 2-D object onto a 3-D shape and getting any patterns to match. Rather like trying to wrap up an awkward shape in wrapping paper and not get loads of corners sticking out, or crumpled patches that you use loads of sticky tape to hold down.
As another example of what can be done with stuck-on finishes, here's my '90s Fotoflame Jap Strat with a photo of some (very badly book-matched) flame maple hiding under a badly damaged poly finish.
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