Alt mode (a)

Accented characters or special punctuation marks on the right-hand side of the keys can be added to the text using the Alt mode. Enter or exit Alt mode by pressing a. When the P- touch is in Alt mode, the Alt indicator on the left side of the display comes on.

To add an accented character or a special punctuation mark written in colour to the text:

1Press a. The Alt indicator comes on.

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2To type in a character written in the lower- right corner of the key, press the key of the desired character.

To type in a character in the upper-right corner of the key, hold down h or t (OR press cto enter Caps mode) and press the key of the desired character.

NOTE

☞If the P-touch is in Caps mode, holding down hor twhile pressing a letter key will enter a lowercase letter.

☞To exit Alt mode at any time, press a. The Alt indicator goes off.

Return key (n)

Like on a typewriter or word processor, this machine’s return key (n) is used to end a line of text and start another one. When you have finished entering one line, press the return key to make a new line and move the cursor to it.

NOTE

A single block of text can only contain a maximum of 16 text lines. If the maximum number of text lines has already been entered when nis pressed, the error message “16 LINE LIMIT” will appear.

The number of text lines that can be printed depends on the width of the tape.

 

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Tape width

Maximum number of

 

lines that can be printed

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 mm

3

 

 

 

 

9 mm

4

 

 

 

 

12 mm

6

 

 

 

 

18 mm

10

 

 

 

 

24 mm

13

 

 

 

 

36 mm

16

 

 

 

 

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6

 

 

 

 

Stamp 24 mm

10

 

 

 

 

To create a new line:

●Press n. The return mark ( ) appears at the end of the line.

New Block function (d+ n)

In order for one section of the text to have a different number of lines than other sections of the text or in order to apply a different format to a section of the text (Refer to Block format functions on page 53.), a new text block must be created using the New Block function.

NOTE

☞A single label can only contain a maximum of fifty text blocks. If the max number of lines/per label have already been entered (50) and you press n (OR hold down d and press n), the error message “50 LINE LIMIT REACHED!” will appear.

☞To split a text block into two, position the cur- sor under the character that you want to start the next block, and then hold down d and press n.

To create a new block:

●Hold down d and press n. The new

block mark ( ) appears at the end of the block.

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