Brother International PT 1800 Support Question
Brother International PT 1800 Support Question
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Question posted by veronicabrezial on January 25th, 2013
Label Maker Not Printing.
My label maker will not let me print pass 12. I need something in a size 24. It's telling me that the text is too high. What am I doing wrong?
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Related Brother International PT 1800 Manual Pages
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 2
...PT-1810 is connected. -Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for a Class B digital device, pursuant to this User's Guide occasionally, we suggest that to which are as you may cause harmful interference to print personalized labels, useful for purchasing the P-touch 1800...for any need. In addition, the four tape widths (1/4" (6 mm), 3/8" (9 mm), 1/2" (12 mm), and...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 3
CONTENTS
Getting Started
GENERAL DESCRIPTION 2 GENERAL PRECAUTIONS 4 BATTERIES...5 OPTIONAL AC ADAPTOR 6 TAPE CASSETTE 7 ATTACHING LABELS 8 PRINT HEAD & ROLLERS 9
Learning the Ropes
DOOR LABEL EXAMPLE 12 ADDRESS LABEL EXAMPLE 16
For Your Information
POWER KEY ...24 CURSOR KEYS 25 CODE, ALT & SHIFT KEYS 27 SPACE KEY ...30 RETURN KEY ...31 TAB FUNCTION 32 DELETE KEY...34 LINE OUT...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 12
...Pass the tape halfway through 48 for 10 to attach it in the stick. 3 Turn the stick three-quarters of cloth and use an iron set to a medium-high temperature (320 to 356 ˚F (160 to 180 ˚C)) to attach a piece of fabric printed...Peel off the label using scissors, place the label on using an iron. After printing the text onto fabric tape and cutting off the label backing.
STAMP ...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 13
.... 3 Print head: Use a dry cotton swab to gently wipe the print head with dust, a blank horizontal streak may need to be cleaned from time to time. The print head and...rotating them with a tape recorder, the machine's head may appear through the label text. Print head
Print head
Rollers Cotton swab
9
PRINT HEAD & ROLLERS
Occasionally, specks of the above works, contact your finger....
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 19
Auto
Length Underline Frame
15 PRINTING THE TEXT
Several format settings are available, however, in this example we will use the default settings pre-programmed into the machine and print out our label.
Alt C O P I E S
Caps
1/ 1
Font 1 Font 2
To cut off the door label:
8 Push down on the tape cutter lever.
To print the door label:
Mirror
7 Press
once...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 20
..., such as this example, we can only be printed on either 1/2"
(12-mm)- Auto
Alt A B C D E F G H I J K L 1: _ Caps
Length Underline Frame
Font 1 Font 2
16
Before entering the new text, we must first erase the text shown in this address label, can choose whether to erase the text. and press
Auto
Alt T E X T & F O R M A T S T E X T Caps O N L Y
Length Underline Frame
Font 1 Font...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 22
... font setting. Alt F O N T Caps H E L S I N K I
Font 1 Font 2
Auto
Length Underline Frame
18
If it were printed, the standard default settings would not be framed or underlined. For this label, though, let's assume we must change the format. The text would be aligned on the left side with NARROW (1/6" (4 mm)) tape margins. Therefore, we want...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 24
... have three letters onto which we could just press
to print it is entered.
PRINTING THE TEXT
Mirror
If we want only one copy of the label:
E Hold down
Repeat
once.
Therefore, we need to attach address labels. To print three copies of the text, we wish to print three copies of each copy is displayed while it .
Font...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 37
...
. T A B Alt L E N G T H Caps 1 . 0 i n c h
Font 1 Font 2
Auto Length Underline Frame
Auto Length Underline Frame
To add a tab:
q Hold down
and press
Tab Length
once.
the label shown below will be printed
ABC
DEF
JKLMNOPQRST
GHI U
Margin Tab (2 inch) EXAMPLE
Tab (2 inch)
Margin
To set the tab length to 1":
1 Hold down
Tab
once. T A B Alt L E N G T H Caps...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 53
...& WIDTH FUNCTIONS
The character size can be printed in wide characters. Tape widths 1/4" (6 mm) 3/8" (9 mm) 1/2" (12 mm) 3/4" (18 mm)
Sizes (in
points)
Width function OFF
Width function ON
6
9
12
18
49 Size setting (in points) 6, 9, 12 6, 9, 12, 18 6, 9, 12, 18, 24 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36
The default size setting is AUTO and the default width setting is always shown by the indicator...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 57
... of this section for samples of
the display.
3 Release
to apply the selected style setting to the entire text.
Alt S T Y L E Caps N O R M A L
Font 1 Font 2
Auto
Length Underline...STYLE FUNCTION
You can choose from nine different character styles to apply to your text.
Characters printed using the smaller sizes may be difficult to read if certain style
settings (e.g., I+SHADOW)...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 65
TAPE MARGIN FUNCTION
The Tape margin function allows you to adjust the size of the margins on the left and right sides of the printed characters may be cut off the label, then use scissors to center the text within the label.
Otherwise some of your text.
The default tape margin setting is displayed. FULL (1" (25 mm...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 68
...-printed labels are attached to glass or some other clear material, they can be read from the opposite side.
When using the Mirror printing function, the text should be read correctly from the tape side of the tape. Alt M I R R O R O N Caps
Font 1 Font 2
Auto Length Underline Frame
Auto Length Underline Frame
64
The default mirror printing...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 69
... 1" (1.0-cm)-steps, hold down
Length
, continue pressing
until the desired units are displayed. LENGTH FUNCTION
Although the length of the printed label automatically adjusts to fit the length of the entered text, there may be times when you to set to ON, the Length indicator on the right side of the display lights...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 71
...
Length Underline Frame
67 To print a label:
Mirror
q Press
once. Pushing down on the tape cutter lever.
In order to prevent damaging the tape, do not try to print.
To cut the tape: q Push down on the tape cutter lever.
PRINT KEY & FEED FUNCTION
After you have entered your text and chosen the desired format...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 72
...
68 Number
and press
(or press just
Mirror
4 Press
(or
) to print many copies of the last number that
End
you wish to separate the labels. appears
in the text by 1 after each copy is
displayed while it , otherwise some of the
printed characters may be cut off. 5 Press down on the tape cutter...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 74
... "COPIES UNTIL 1-9?"
The number of the same text. Length Underline Frame
70 and press
Alt C O P I E S Caps U N T I L
Font 1 Font 2
Auto
1-9?
To feed the tape after printing, hold down
Clear
just
). To use scissors to cut along the printed dots to separate the labels. appears in
the display.
REPEAT PRINTING FUNCTION
This function allows you want.
To...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 80
... replace them
memory are using alkaline batteries, they may be low.
The text and formats in the display and all text files stored in the • If the batteries are low, ...
holding down
Align
and
,
turn the machine back on
through the printed label. A blank horizontal line appears • Clean the print head as explained on . The display stays blank after you are...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 82
... you try to print.
• Shorten the text to less than 1 meter before trying to print.
• This message appears if the Length function is used to set a label length that it is longer than 11.8" (30.0 cm).
Number
ing
.
• This message appears if a high-voltage adaptor is being used to set a tab length...
Users Manual - English and Spanish - Page 84
TEXT TOO LONG!
TEXT TOO HIGH! Cause
Remedy
• This message appears if you try to print a label or feed the tape when no tape cassette is installed.
• Install a tape cassette and try again.
• This message appears if 50 tabs have already been added to the text when
Tab
you press .
• Limit the number...
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