Part 3 Inputting Characters and Symbols

Message Language

You can use the following procedure to select any one of five different languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish) for display of message text.

•All of the display examples in this manual use English as the display language.

To change the message language

1.On the SET UP menu, use u and i to highlight “LAN- GUAGE” and then press SET.

– – – L ANGUAGE – – –

DEUTSCH

FRANÇA I S

2.Use u and i to highlight the language you want to use and then press SET.

Display Contrast

Use the following procedure to make the characters on the display darker or lighter.

To change the display contrast

1.On the SET UP menu, highlight “CONTRAST” and then press SET.

2.Use t and y to make the display contrast lighter and darker.

3.After setting the contrast, press SET.

Sound

The label printer is equipped with sound capabilities that signal when power is turned on and when an illegal opera- tion is attempted. Normally, sound are turned on whenever you turn power on, but you can use the following procedure to turn the sound on and off.

To turn sound on and off

1.On the SET UP menu, highlight “SOUND” and then press SET.

2.Use u and i to highlight the setting you want (ON or OFF) and then press SET.

Unit of Measurement

This label printer can use either centimeters (cm) or inches (inch) as the unit of measurement.

To set the unit of measurement

1.On the SET UP menu, highlight “cm/inch” and then press SET.

2.Use u and i to highlight the setting you want (cm or inch) and then press SET.

Demo Print

After setting up the label printer, you may want to produce a demo print to make sure that everything is working properly.

To produce a demo print

1.Press ON to turn power on.

2.Press PRINT and then SET.

The following are examples of the demo print that the above procedure produces. Note that the contents of the demo print depends on the width of the tape loaded in the label printer.

6mm Tape

9mm Tape

12mm Tape

18mm and 24mm Tape

Important!

•You can produce a demo print when the text input display is clear, immediately after turning power on only. Even if you input text and then delete it, pressing PRINT will not produce a demo print.

•If you experience problems with printing, check your tape cartridge and power supply, and try again.

Part 3 Inputting Characters and Symbols

This part of the manual tells you how to input characters. To make things easier to understand, we call everything you input a character, regardless of whether it is actually a let- ter, number, or symbol. Explanations here all use the de- fault settings that are in effect from the initial power-on screen.

For information on using other fonts, styles, effects and char- acters sizes, see pages E-12 to E-16.

Important! You can input up to 255 characters per label. Further input becomes impossible after you input the 255th character.

Display Symbols and Indicators

Before getting into actual input, you should first become acquainted with the symbols and indicators used on the la- bel printer display.

Font indicator

CAPS on/off indicator

Block number

Function/Shift/Code

Tape length

Format

indicator

Character size

Vertical printing

a SANS

⋅ 1 F

display indicator

[ 9 9 . 9

c m]

indicator

CA S I O

Mirror printing

indicator

Block mark

Manual feed indicator

Character position mark

Cursor

CAPS on/off indicator

“A” indicates upper-case input, while “a” indicates lower- case.

Font indicator

This indicator shows the font setting (page E-12) for the character where the cursor is located.

Function indicator

This indicator appears when you press the FUNC key. Press- ing a key while this indicator is on the display causes the function marked above that key to be executed.

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