Using P-Touch With A Computer - Brother P-Touch 2480 User Manual

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Using P-touch With a Computer

This P-touch is equipped with a USB port, allowing you to connect it to a computer
running Microsoft
which is installed together with the printer driver, Transfer Manager and Backup
Manager.
P-touch Editor 3.2 is a label-designing software that provides additional
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illustration and layout features enabling you to design more elaborate label
templates and create databases. Once these label templates and databases have
been created, they can be downloaded to the P-touch, where they can be used to
print labels.
Transfer Manager is used to download data created on the computer to this
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portable P-touch, so that it can be used anywhere you go to create labels. The
following types of data can be downloaded to the P-touch.
• Label templates created with P-touch Editor allow you to expand the P-touch's
capabilities to create customized labels.
• Databases created with P-touch Editor or in the *.csv format provide you with
convenient access to large amounts of data (for example, customer lists and
inventory), which can be used to print labels.
• User-defined character images in the *.bmp format can be used to enhance
labels with characters that are not available on the P-touch.
Backup Manager allows you to back up the following types of data from the
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P-touch onto the computer, and restore this data to the P-touch in case the P-touch
data is lost.
• Label templates
• Database
• User-defined character images
• Label files stored in the P-touch memory
☞ The P-touch Editor software and the printer driver must be installed before the
P-touch is connected to the computer or turned on.
☞ Only use the enclosed USB interface cable to connect the P-touch to the computer.
☞ A single computer cannot be connected to multiple P-touch machines at the same time.
☞ Although the P-touch can be connected to the computer through a USB
connection, label layouts created in P-touch Editor cannot be printed directly
from the application.
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Windows . The enclosed CD-ROM contains P-touch Editor 3.2,