Dymo 1000 Printer User Manual


 
DYMO 1000
DYMO 1000
Introduction
The Dymo 1000 Electronic Labelmaker enables you to create a
wide variety of high quality self-adhesive labels of up to 100
characters.
The Labelmaker uses 12mm (
1
/
2
wide tape cassettes in a
number of label colours.
Normal or double width, full and half-height text can be printed
in a single line, or in half-height on two lines.
Text can be set horizontally or and is
always centred on the label.
ON/OFF
Switches the power on and off.
Switches off automatically after
three minutes if no keys are
pressed. The last label created
will be stored and displayed
when next turned on.
Note: If the batteries are removed
for more than a few seconds, or the
external power supply interrupted,
all text and settings will be lost.
When power is restored, the
display will show a flashing cursor
(no text) and the settings will be full-
height, normal width, auto length,
and
CAPS
off.
CAPITALS
CAPS
Press for all subsequent
characters in UPPER CASE
(CAPITALS), as confirmed by
the indicator in the top left
corner of the display.
Press again to cancel and
return to lower case.
SHIFT KEY
Press and release before
pressing an alphabet key to
produce an UPPER CASE
character, as confirmed by the
indicator in the lower left corner
of the display.
For dual purpose keys, press
first to produce the legend
above the key.
• Pressing
while
CAPS
is set,
will give lower case characters.
DELETE
DEL
Press to delete the character to
the left of the cursor, or to
cancel certain function key
operations.
Function keys
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This label has
two line text.
TEXT SIZE
SIZE
Press to display the symbols
representing the four text print
sizes:
normal height and width
normal height, double width
half-height, normal width
half-height, double width.
The cursor will be positioned
over the current selection.
Press
DEL
to cancel, or use
<
or
<
to move the cursor
over the size symbol required,
then press
SIZE
to confirm the
selection, or
PRINT
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to fix the new
size and print the label.
TWO-LINE TEXT +
2-LINE
CAPS
Labels comprising two lines of
text can be printed on the 12mm
(
1
/
2
") wide labels.
Press to insert the special
character
at the point where
you want the text to break, eg:
This label has two line text.
on the display will print as:
Only one
can be included in
a label at a time.
Press
DEL
to delete , as for
normal text characters.
Note: Two lines cannot be printed
vertically.
VERTICAL TEXT +
VERT
SYM
Rotates the text through 90°
so that the label is printed
, as
confirmed by the indicator in the
top right of the display.
Press again to cancel and
return to horizontal text.
CLEAR TEXT +
CLEAR
DEL
Press to clear all the text and
the length setting, but leave the
print size and style settings
unchanged.
CURSOR KEYS
<
<
These keys move the cursor
along the text.
Pressing
+
<<
<
or +
<<
<
moves the cursor to the
beginning or end of the text.
When used in conjunction with
certain function keys, use
<
or
<
to select options and
numerical values.
To insert characters into the text,
use
<
or
<
to position the
cursor under the character to the
right of the insertion point, then
type in the characters required.
PRINTING
PRINT
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2
,
3
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Press
PRINT
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2
,
3
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to print the label.
Press the cutter button to
release the label.
SPACE KEY
Press to insert a
space into the text.
FEED +
FEED
Press to feed out 25mm of tape
without printing.
SYMBOLS
SYM
Press to select a symbol
character – see ‘Symbols and
special characters’.
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Creating your first label
Fit batteries or connect the AC adaptor, and
insert a tape cassette.
Press
to switch on.
Type in your text using the alphabet keys; each
character will appear in the display. If you make a
mistake, press
DEL
to delete the error, then type
in the correction.
Press
PRINT
1
,
2
,
3
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to print the label, then press the cutter
button to release the label.
The Display
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The display shows:
Up to five text characters, plus the cursor, at one
time. Use
<
or
<
to move along the text.
Four indicators, one in each corner – as shown
above.
The display will flash if you press an incorrect key in
a function sequence.
Vertical textCAPS lock on
Shift on
Fixed length on
CURSOR
Label cutter
button. Press to
release label.
NOTE:
Always remove
a cut label
before printing
another.
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LABEL LENGTH +
SIZE
LENGTH
Displays the current label length.
The length is normally calculated
automatically, according to the
length of the text on the label.
Press
DEL
to cancel the length
function without changing the
length, or:
use
<
or
<
to increase (up to
400mm or 15" max.) or
decrease the length in 5mm
(
1
/
5
") steps. The display will
flash if you try to make the label
shorter than the text.
If the length displayed is
preceded by the > symbol, the
length has already been fixed;
the label is too short for the text
and it will not print. Either press
<
to increase the length in
5mm (
1
/
5
") steps until the >
symbol disappears, or press
+
CLEAR
DEL
to cancel fixed
length; the label is now long
enough for the text and can be
printed.
Press
+
SIZE
LENGTH
again to fix
the length for all subsequent
labels as indicated in the lower
right corner of the display, or
press
PRINT
1
,
2
,
3
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to fix the new
length and print the label.
Pressing
+
CLEAR
DEL
will cancel
the fixed length and restore the
automatic length.
INCREMENTAL
PRINTING
+
PRINT
1
,
2
,
3
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Prints a label then increments the
last digit of any number in the
label by 1, ready for the next print
command.
Press
PRINT
1
,
2
,
3
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to print the next
label, or
+
PRINT
1
,
2
,
3
.
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to print the
next label and increment again
by 1.
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