2.Move the cursor to the start block from which you want to change the font and then press SET to register your selection.

3.Move the cursor to the end block up to which you want to change the font and then press SET to register your selection and change the font.

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

To change the font for lines of text

1.After performing the two steps under “To change the font for displayed text”, use uand ito highlight “LINE” and then press SET.

2.Move the cursor to the start line from which you want to change the font and then press SET to register your selection.

3.Move the cursor to the end line up to which you want to change the font and then press SET to register your selection and change the font.

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

To change the font for specific characters

1.After performing the two steps under “To change the font for displayed text”, use uand ito highlight “CHARACTER” and then press SET.

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

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

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

To find out current font settings

Use the tand ycursor keys to move the cursor around the display. The font indicator shows the current font setting for the character where the cursor is located.

Important! Neighboring characters with different font settings, may overlap on the printed tape. You can correct for this by changing the PITCH setting on the BLOCK FORMAT menu (see page E-25), or by inputting a space between the overlapping characters.

Character Styles

There are ten character styles: normal, bold, outline, shadow, raised, italic, italic- bold, italic-outline, italic-shadow, and italic-raised.

The following sections describe how to change the character style for displayed text, and how you can find out what the character style setting is for text on the display.

To change the character styles

1.While there is text on the display, press

STYLE.

2.Use uand ito highlight the style you want to change to and then press SET.

What you should do next depends on the range you want to use.

The range setting procedures are the same as those for font range settings.

ALL: See “To change the font for all the text”.

BLOCK: See “To change the font for blocks of text”.

LINE: See “To change the font for lines of text”.

CHARACTER: See “To change the font for specific characters”.

Important! Normal and Italic style settings can be applied to illustrations (ILLUST).

The following table shows how STYLE settings affect illustrations (ILLUST).

STYLE SETTING

EFFECT ON

ILLUSTRATIONS

 

Normal

Normal

Italic

Italic

Bold

Normal

Outline

Normal

Shadow

Normal

Raised

Normal

Italic+Bold

Italic

Italic+Outline

Italic

Italic+Shadow

Italic

Italic+Raised

Italic

 

 

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