Brother manual Using P-touch With a Computer for PT-1650 only

5 Using P-touch With a Computer (for PT-1650 only)

This P-touch is equipped with a USB port, allowing you to connect it to a computer running Microsoft® Windows®. The enclosed CD-ROM contains P-touch Editor 3.2, which is installed together with the printer driver, Transfer Manager and Backup Manager.

●P-touch Editor 3.2 is a label-designing software that provides additional illustration and layout features enabling you to design more elaborate label templates and create databases. Once these label templates and databases have been created, they can be downloaded to the P-touch, where they can be used to print labels.

●Transfer Manager is used to download data created on the computer to this portable P-touch, so that it can be used anywhere you go to create labels. The following types of data can be downloaded to the P-touch.

•Label templates created with P-touch Editor allow you to expand the P-touch’s capabilities to create customized labels.

•Databases created with P-touch Editor or in the *.csv format provide you with convenient access to large amounts of data (for example, customer lists and inventory), which can be used to print labels.

•User-defined character images in the *.bmp format can be used to enhance labels with characters that are not available on the P-touch.

●Backup Manager allows you to back up the following types of data from the P-touch onto the computer, and restore this data to the P-touch in case the P-touch data is lost.

•Label templates

•Database

•User-defined character images

•Label files stored in the P-touch memory

☞The P-touch Editor software and the printer driver must be installed before the P-touch is connected to the computer or turned on.

☞Only use the enclosed USB interface cable to connect the P-touch to the computer.

☞A single computer cannot be connected to multiple P-touch machines at the same time.

☞Although the P-touch can be connected to the computer through a USB connection, label layouts created in P-touch Editor cannot be printed directly from the application.

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