Dymo 160 Caring for Your Label Maker, Adding Box and Underline Styles, Creating Vertical Labels

Adding Box and Underline Styles

You can highlight the text by adding a box or underline style.

Five styles are available:

To add a box or underline

Press until the desired box or underline style is displayed.

A label can be underlined or enclosed within a box, but not both together.

When adding an underline on a two-line label, each line is underlined. When adding a box on a two-line label, both lines are enclosed in a single box.

Creating Vertical Labels

You can print labels with the text oriented vertically.

When printing two-line vertical labels, the label will print with the second line of text after the first line.

To create a vertical label

1Press .

2Enter text.

3Press to print.

The underline style will not print on a vertical label.

Creating Two-Line Labels

You can print a maximum of two lines on a label. Only one line of text can be printed on 1/4” labels.

To create a two-line label

1Enter text for the first line and press .

The symbol appears. This symbol is not printed.

2Enter text for the second line.

3Press to print.

Caring for Your Label Maker

Your label maker is designed to give you long and trouble-free service, while requiring very little maintenance. Clean your label maker regularly to keep it working properly. Clean the cutter blade each time you replace the label cassette.

Print head cleaning tool

Print head

Press and hold

Figure 7

To clean the cutter blade

1Remove the label cassette.

2Press and hold the cutter button to expose the cutter blade. See Figure 7.

3Use a cotton ball and alcohol to clean both sides of the blade.

The cutter blade is extremely sharp. Use caution when cleaning.

To clean the print head

1Remove the label cassette.

2Remove the print head cleaning tool from inside the label compartment cover. See Figure 7.

3Gently wipe the padded side of the tool across the print head.

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