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User Guide
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Declaration DYMO Corporation 44 Commerce Road of Conformity Stamford, CT 06902-4561 Phone: (203) 355-9000 Fax: (203) 355-9090 Equipment Information Description: Direct Thermal Printer Model: LabelMANAGER PC (18949) This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC (Federal Communications Committee) rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in
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Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installing LabelMANAGER PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Registering the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The LabelMANAGER PC W
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Chapter 1 Getting Started 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. The LabelMANAGER PC also supports multi-label printing with the Smart Paste command. This feature allows you to print labels by cop
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Getting Started The LabelMANAGER PC Window The LabelMANAGER PC is easy to learn because the main window consists of menus and toolbars similar to those of popular word processing programs. This section summarizes the commands available to you. For more detailed information about a particular command, refer to the Help. To start LabelMANAGER PC ➤ Select Start > Programs > LabelMANAGER PC > LabelMANAGER PC. The LabelMANAGER PC main window is displayed. Standard Toolbar Formatting
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The LabelMANAGER PC Window Edit Menu The following commands are available from the Edit menu. Toolbar Menu Description Icon Command Undo Undoes the last action. Redo Redoes the last action after an Undo. Cut Cuts the selection to the clipboard. Copy Copies the selection to the clipboard. Paste Pastes the clipboard contents onto the label. Smart Paste Performs a multi-label paste. See “Printing Labels from a List” on page 10. Select All Selects the entire contents of the labe
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Getting Started Help Menu The following commands are available from the Help menu. Menu Command Description Contents Displays the Help Table of Contents. Help Index Displays the Help Index. Register Now Displays the Electronic Registration page. About Displays the current version of the software. Ordering Tape Cassettes The LabelMANAGER PC uses DYMO D1 tape cassettes. The tape cassettes are available in 1/4” (6 mm), 3/8” (9 mm), 1/2” (12 mm), 3/4” (18 mm), and 1” (24 mm)
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Chapter 2 Making Labels 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. For more information on any of these features, refer to the Help. Designing a Label The instructions in the Quick Start card showed you how
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Making Labels 2 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. 3 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. 4 Type 2002 Annual Budget Projections in the main window. As the line of text becomes too long for a fixed width label at the current font size, the font size will a
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Designing a Label 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. When you add a border, it surrounds the text and may cause the te
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Making Labels The Symbol dialog box appears. 3 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. 4 Select the symbol you wish to insert and click Insert. 5 Click Close to close the Symbol dialog box. The character you selected appears on the label in a size that matches the text font size. Adding a Date and Time Stamp You can choose to add a d
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Designing a Label The Date and Time dialog box appears. 3 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. The graphic will be scaled automatically to the size of the surrounding text while maintaining the aspect ratio. To add a graphi
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Making Labels 3 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. When you print vertically, the text on your label is reformatted to fit in a single column on the label. You may wish to center the text on the label as well. To print vertically 1 Click in the Vertical Label check box on the Formatting toolbar to sel
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Printing Labels from a List For example, the rows in the following spreadsheet: will print two three-line labels: one for DYMO and one for Esselte. DYMO Corp. Esselte 44 Commerce Road 48 South Service Road Stamford, CT 06902 Melville, NY 11471 Text File Many programs can create a text file, such as a Text Editing program, exporting from a database application, and so on. When you export text from a database, you usually create a delimited file with each entry separated by comma or tab charact
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Making Labels If a blank line is contained in the text, Smart Paste reads the text as multiple labels separated by a single blank line. If no blank line is found, the text is read as multiple, one-line labels. For example, the following two addresses are separated by a single blank line and Smart Paste will print two three-line labels. DYMO Corp. 44 Commerce Road Stamford, CT 06902 Esselte 48 South Service Road Melville, NY 11471 However, the following three lines of text contain no blank line
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Printing from Other Applications Printing from Other Applications The LabelMANAGER PC installation wizard installs a standard Windows printer driver on your computer so the LabelMANAGER PC printer will appear in your list of printers. This printer can be used to print directly from other applications, such as Microsoft Word or Access, in the same manner as you would use any other printer. To successfully print to the LabelMANAGER PC, you need to set the correct page size, orientation, and m
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Making Labels 5 On the Margins tab, enter the margin values for the top, bottom, left, and right margins based on the labels you have loaded in the printer. Refer to Table 1 for the correct settings. 6 Click the Paper Size tab. 7 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. 8 Select Landscape under Orientation and click OK. 9 Click to print the label. Print Settings This secti
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Print Settings 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. To set continuous mode printing 1 Select Page Setup or Print Setup from the File menu. The Prin
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