Casio KL-8100 About the format menu, To find out preset format character sizes, About Auto Sizing

5.Move the cursor to the start character from which you want to change the character size and then press SET to register your selection.

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6. Move the cursor to the end character up to which you want to change the character size and then press SET to register your selection and change the character size.

•At this point, the label printer returns to the text input screen.

The following shows a character size mark.

a SANS			A
3 ⋅ 3			6 . 5 c m
12	3 ⋅ 3	345FIT

Character size mark

Specifying Character Sizes for Lines of Text Using Preset Formats

With this method, you input the text you want and then use preset formats to specify the character size for each line of text. Note that character size marks do not appear inside of text when you specify character sizes using this method. In- stead, the character size display mark shows the size of the characters where the cursor is currently located.

About the format menu

The format that appears in the following procedure uses symbols to indicate character sizes in each line of text. The formats that appear depend on the width of the tape loaded in the label printer and the number of lines in the block of text where the cursor is located when you press the SIZE key. The following shows all of the formats available for each tape width and the number of lines of text.

•Note that with the preset formats, all character sizes have the same vertical and horizontal measurements.

24mm and 18mm tape, 1 line of text

1 ⋅ 1	2 ⋅ 2	3 ⋅ 3
4 ⋅ 4	5 ⋅ 5

24mm and 18mm tape, 2 lines of text

1	⋅ 1/1 ⋅ 1		1 ⋅ 1/2 ⋅ 2
2	⋅ 2/1 ⋅ 1		2 ⋅ 2/2 ⋅ 2
1	⋅ 1/3 ⋅ 3		3 ⋅ 3/1 ⋅ 1
24mm and 18mm tape, 3 lines of text
1	⋅ 1/1 ⋅ 1/1 ⋅ 1			1 ⋅ 1/1 ⋅ 1/2 ⋅ 2
1	⋅ 1/2 ⋅ 2/1 ⋅ 1			2 ⋅ 2/1 ⋅ 1/1 ⋅ 1
12mm tape, 1 line of text
1	⋅ 1	2 ⋅ 2			3 ⋅ 3
9mm tape, 1 line of text
1	⋅ 1	2 ⋅ 2

Important! You can use preset formats to specify charac- ter sizes for lines of text only when there is no character size specification already made inside of the text. If you press the SIZE key while the cursor is located inside of a block that already contains a character size indicator, the FOR- MAT item will be dimmed on the SIZE menu, which means it cannot be selected.

To specify character sizes for lines of text using preset formats

1.While the cursor is located inside of the block of text where you want to use the preset formats, press SIZE.

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FORMAT

•See page E-16 for details about blocks.

2.Use u and i to highlight “FORMAT” and then press SET.

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– FORMAT –

3.Use u, i, t and y to move the highlighting to the format that you want to use and then press SET to select

it.

•At this point, the label printer returns to the text input screen.

To find out preset format character sizes

Use the t and y cursor keys to move the cursor around the display. The character size indicator shows the current size setting for the character where the cursor is located.

About Auto Sizing

If you do not specify a character size, the label printer auto- matically selects the optimum size in accordance with the width of the tape you are using. If you are using frames (page E-19), characters are automatically balanced with the type of frame being used.

The following are examples of how auto sizing works.

Tape	1 ⋅ 1 (Manual Setting)
width	Auto Fit
6mm

9mm

12mm

18mm

24mm

• The FORMAT menu appears with all of the preset for-	Important! Remember that changing the tape cartridge may
mats that are available in accordance with the number
	make it impossible to print text if there are too many lines.
of text lines there are in the block where you located the
	Note the following relationships between tape width and the
cursor, and with the width of the tape loaded in the label
	number of text lines.
printer.

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