Brother 2480 Printer User Manual


 
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Using P-touch With a Computer
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.