The DYMO LabelMANAGER PC electronic labelmaker allows you to quickly print high-quality permanent labels directly from your PC. With your LabelMANAGER PC, you can create labels that include borders, graphics, formatted text, and date & time stamps. You can even print labels horizontally or vertically.
Saves the current label to disk. Save As Allows you to name the label prior to saving. Printer Setup Displays the Printer Setup dialog box and allows access to the Driver Properties. Print Prints the current label. The menu command displays a dialog box asking how many copies to print.
See “Adding Borders” on page 7. Allows you to set tabs. Allows you to select the tape cassette color combination currently in the printer to provide optimal print quality. See “Tape Cassette Color Setting” on page 14.
1/4” (6 mm), 3/8” (9 mm), 1/2” (12 mm), 3/4” (18 mm), and 1” (24 mm) widths, and come in a variety of colors. For a complete list of D1 tapes and the names of dealers who sell the tapes, visit the DYMO Web site at www.dymo.com...
The LabelMANAGER PC can print your labels horizontally or vertically with text in a variety of fonts, sizes, and styles. You can add borders, graphics, and special characters. You can also add a date and time stamp to your labels. This chapter will give you an overview of creating and printing labels with LabelMANAGER PC.
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Select 1/2” (12 mm) from the Tape Width pull-down menu. The text area of the main window changes in size based on the tape width you select. Select Fixed At and enter 3.50 (8.5 cm) in the Label Length Fixed At text box. Notice the size of the input area change on the ruler.
Now that you have created and saved your label, let’s introduce additional features you can use to customize your labels. Additional Formatting Features To further customize your labels, you can add borders, symbols, graphics, and even date and time stamps. You can also choose to print the label vertically. Adding Borders You can choose to add one of several pre-defined borders to your label.
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The Symbol dialog box appears. Choose the font that contains the special character you wish to insert from the Font pull-down menu. The Symbol, Dingbats, and Wingdings fonts contain many unique characters you can add to your labels. Select the symbol you wish to insert and click Insert. Click Close to close the Symbol dialog box.
The Date and Time dialog box appears. Select the date and/or time format you wish to insert and click OK. The date and/or time appears on the label in the format you selected. Adding Graphics You can add a graphic to your label from the clipboard or from a file. If the graphic is in a file, the format can be BMP, JPG, PCX, PNG, TIF, WMF, or EMF.
Select the graphic file you wish to insert and click Open. The graphic you selected appears on the label. Printing Vertically You can print your label vertically, for example, to be placed on the spine of a binder or a video tape.
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For example, the rows in the following spreadsheet: will print two three-line labels: one for DYMO and one for Esselte. DYMO Corp. 44 Commerce Road Stamford, CT 06902 Text File Many programs can create a text file, such as a Text Editing program, exporting from a database application, and so on.
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For example, you can change the font, size, and the horizontal position on the label. Select Smart Paste from the Edit menu. A dialog box appears telling you how many labels will be printed. Click OK. The labels begin printing. DYMO Corp. 44 Commerce Road Stamford, CT 06902 Esselte 48 South Service Road...
Type the text to be printed into a Microsoft Word document. Select Print from the File menu. The Print dialog box appears. Select DYMO LabelMANAGER PC from the list of printers, if not already selected, and click Close. Select Page Setup or Print Setup from the File menu.
Refer to Table 1 for the correct settings. Click the Paper Size tab. Select the label size you have loaded in the printer from the Paper size drop-down list. The width and height values should now match the values given in Table 1.
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Continuous Mode Printing Continuous mode printing prints multiple labels with no space between the labels. This is especially helpful for conserving label tape. Continuous mode printing is turned off by default. NOTE The Continuous mode printing ON selection only applies to printing from other applications. This selection has no affect when printing from the LabelMANAGER PC software.
This chapter describes how to clean the LabelMANAGER PC and offers suggestions for identifying problems that can occur when you use the printer. If you are unable to solve the problem, this chapter also describes how to contact DYMO for technical support.
• The print head is clean. See “Cleaning the LabelMANAGER PC” on page 17. • The tape cassette color setting matches the tape cassette in the printer. See “Tape Cassette Color Setting” on page 14. Tape is jammed If the tape appears jammed, do the following: Carefully lift out the tape cassette and remove the jammed tape.
Technical Support. See “Contacting DYMO” for a list of DYMO telephone numbers. Contacting DYMO The following table provides a list of telephone numbers to reach DYMO Sales and Support departments. You can also reach DYMO at www.dymo.com. Country Australia België/Belgique...
Technical Specifications The following are the technical specifications for the LabelMANAGER PC printer. Print Method Thermal Transfer Print Resolution 180 dots per inch (7.09 dots per mm) Print Speed 0.4 inch per second (10 mm per second) Maximum Print Height 0.53 inch (13.54 mm)
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DYMO continuous mode printing creating a label delimited files, printing graphics from the clipboard installing LabelMANAGER PC label tape see tape cassettes main window...
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