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EDIT
ING
A LABEL
Entering and Editing Text
Entering Text from the Keyboard
• The keyboard of your P-touch can be used in the same way as a standard computer
keyboard.
Adding a New Line
• To end the current line of text and start a new line, press the
Enter
key. A return mark
appears at the end of the line and the cursor moves to the start of the new line.
Adding a New Block
• When GENERAL is selected, you can create a new block up to five lines. To create a new
block of text/lines to the right of your current text, press the
Shift
key and then press the
Enter
key. The cursor moves to the start of the new block. In other labelling application
types, you can set the number of blocks when pressing a label application key. Some
labelling application types are not required.
Moving the Cursor
• Press the , , or key to move the cursor one space or line.
• To move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current line, press the
Shift
key and then
press the or key.
• To move the cursor to the beginning of previous or next block, press the
Shift
key and then
press
the
or
key.
• Press the
Escape
key to return to the previous step.
• Serialize mode can be also applied to bar code. A bar code is counted as a character.
• Any symbols or other non-alphanumeric characters in the auto-numbering sequence are ignored.
• Serialize mode sequence can only contain a maximum of five characters.
• Letters and numbers increase as shown below:
0
Î
1
...9
Î
0
Î
...
A
Î
B
...Z
Î
A
Î
...
a
Î
b
...z
Î
a
Î
...
A0
Î
A1
...A9
Î
B0
Î
...
Spaces (shown as underscores “_” in the example below) can be used to adjust the spacing
between characters or to control the number of digits that are printed.
_9
Î
10
...99
Î
00
Î
...
_Z
Î
AA ...ZZ
Î
AA
Î
...
1_9
Î
2_0 ...9_9
Î
0_0
Î
...
Entering and Editing Text
• Maximum number of lines
- 18 mm tape: 5 lines
- 12 mm tape: 3 lines
- 9 mm and 6 mm tape: 2 lines
- 3.5 mm tape: 1 line
• If you press the
Enter
key when five lines already exist, an error message is displayed.
• When PUNCH-DOWN BLOCK is selected, you can enter up to 2 lines.
