Brother QL-500 Printer User Manual


 
USER’S GUIDE
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Note
If the card is formatted, data that has been previously written is erased.
It takes ten or more seconds to format a 2-Mbyte flash memory card or
HDD card. The more the capacity of the card, the longer time it takes
to format the card.
When the installed flash memory card or HDD card is formatted:
When you enter this mode menu with the formatted flash memory card or
HDD card installed, the display shows the following menus:
Display Message Flash Operation
EXECUTE DATA Select the data ID and execute the selected
data. This menu appears only when any data
has been saved on the card.
CARD LIST Print out the contents of the flash memory
card or the HDD card. This menu appears
only when anything has been saved in the
card.
SAVE Save received data, macros, and fonts.
DELETE Delete items from the card.
Note
A common use of the flash memory is with FORMS software packages.
With these commercially available software packages you have an option
to send a form to the printer without any data. After you send the form to
the printer, you may save the form in the flash memory as a Macro. Then
the next time you want to print this form, you would setup your FORMS
software package to SEND DATA ONLY - USE FORM IN PRINTER.
This process would save you anything from 1 to 4 minutes per print job.
Select the setting menu and enter the sub-setting menu to change the
settings as follows: