3M PL200 User manual Creating Industrial Labels, Using International Characters

Using International Characters

The printer supports the extended Latin character set using RACE technology. Similar to using a mobile phone keypad, holding down a letter key will scroll through variations of that letter.

For example, if you hold down the letter a, you will see a à á â ã ä å and so on through all the variations available. The order in which the character variations appear depends on the language you selected to use.

International characters are not available when the language is set to US English.

Creating Industrial Labels

You can quickly create labels for special industrial applications, such as cable or wire wrap, flag, patch panel, electrical panel, terminal block, 110-block, or module. You can also create a fixed length label. Hot Keys are available for each of the label types. The current label type is displayed in the Caption bar. By default, the label type is General with no special formatting, text centered, and the length automatically determined by the amount of text. The Hot Keys always take you to the indicated label type. For example, if you choose Flag and later want a General label, press the General key to remove the Flag settings and return to General label type.

Creating Cable and Wire Labels

You can create several types of labels that wrap around a cable or wire: Cable, Wire, and Flag labels.

Creating Cable Labels

A Cable label is placed around the width of a wire or cable. You can enter up to five lines of text and the text is repeated as many times as possible

depending on the size of the text and the length of the label.

You select from a number of different wire gauges or cable lengths. The printer then determines the size of the label. The following table shows the selections available.

CAT X	CABLE 3.0”
COAX	CABLE 4.0”
22-16 AWG	CABLE 5.0”
14-10 AWG (Default)	CABLE 6.0”
8-4 AWG	FIBER 0.1” - 1/4”
3-1 AWG	FIBER 1/4” - 1/2”
1/0-4/0 AWG	FIBER 1/2” - 1”

To create a cable label

1.Press .

2.Select the desired wire gauge or cable size, and

press .

To create multiple labels quickly, see Creating a Series of Labels on page 15.

Creating Wire Labels

A Wire label is placed horizontally along the length of a wire or cable. The label text is repeated as many times as possible depending on the size of

the text and the width of the label.

To create a wire label
 Press S HIF T +	.

The label length is automatically determined by the amount of text entered.

To create multiple labels quickly, see Creating a Series of Labels on page 15.

Creating Flag Labels

Flag labels wrap around a wire or cable leaving the text part of the label extending out from the cable. The text on Flag labels is automatically printed on both ends of the label, leaving a blank space in the middle that

wraps around the cable. When the label is applied to the cable, both ends of the label are applied back to back leaving a tail or flag. The result is a label that can be read from both sides.

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