Quick Setup Guide

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Available Manuals

 Product Safety Guide

This guide provides safety information; read it before you use your P-touch

labeling system.

 Quick Setup Guide (this guide)

This guide provides basic information about using your P-touch labeling

system, along with detailed troubleshooting tips.

 User’s Guide

When you download the installer from www.brother.com/inst and install it, the

“Brother Manual” folder is created on your computer’s desktop and this

manual is stored in this folder.

This guide provides additional information about your P-touch labeling

system’s settings and operations, troubleshooting tips, and maintenance

instructions.

In addition, you can download individual manuals that you need from the

Brother support website.

Visit the Brother support website at support.brother.com

and click Manuals

on your model page to download the other manuals.

Before using your P-touch labeling system, check that the package contains

the following items:

To download and install printer drivers and software, visit our website.

www.brother.com/inst

For more information on installing the driver and software, see the Create

a Label using a Computer section in this guide.

Unpacking Your P-touch Labeling system

P-touch Labeling

system

Keyboard LCD unit Keyboard LCD unit

cable

Product Safety Guide Quick Setup Guide AC adapter

Power supply cord USB cable Tape cassette

Coin cell battery

English

Thank you for purchasing the P-touch labeling system model PT-D800W.

Your new PT-D800W is an intuitive, easy to operate and feature-rich P-touch

labeling system that produces professionally looking, high-quality labels.

This manual contains basic procedures for using your P-touch labeling system.

Read the whole guide before using your product and keep it for later reference.

The available options and supplies may vary depending on the country.

PT-D800W

Quick Setup Guide

D01JFE001A

ELECTRONIC LABELING SYSTEM

General Description

Front

Back

1 Handle

2 Cover open button

3 Top cover

4 Tape exit slot

5 (Label) indicator

6 (Battery) indicator

7 (Power) button

8 (Feed and Cut) button

9 (Wi-Fi) button

10 Keyboard LCD unit

11 Keyboard LCD unit interface

outlet

12 Cable holder (holder for the

keyboard LCD unit cable)

13 USB port

14 AC adapter outlet

Inside

1 Accessory storage

compartment

Use this space to store TZe tape

cassettes and the AC adapter.

2 Coin cell battery holder

3 Tape cassette compartment

4 Print head

5 Tape cutter unit

6 Tape exit slot

IMPORTANT

Before using the P-touch labeling system, make sure you remove the

protective material according to the following procedure.

1 Press the cover open button to

open the top cover.

2 Pull the tape to remove the

tape together with the

protective material.

Summary of content (8 pages)

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D01JFE001A General Description Front 3 5 6 7 8 9 4 ELECTRONIC LABELING SYSTEM PT-D800W 1 Quick Setup Guide English 2 Thank you for purchasing the P-touch labeling system model PT-D800W. Your new PT-D800W is an intuitive, easy to operate and feature-rich P-touch labeling system that produces professionally looking, high-quality labels. This manual contains basic procedures for using your P-touch labeling system. Read the whole guide before using your product and keep it for later reference.
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Attaching the Keyboard LCD Unit 1. 2. Slide the cover on the bottom of the keyboard LCD unit to remove it, and then connect the keyboard LCD unit cable. Install the cover. Connect the USB cable on the keyboard LCD unit to the outlet on the side of the P-touch labeling system. 2. 3. Press the cover open button to open the top cover.
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Using a Rechargeable Li-ion Battery (optional) Attach the battery base (PA-BB-003) to the P-touch labeling system. For more information about attaching the battery base, see its instruction manual.  Installing the Rechargeable Li-ion Battery 1. 2. 3. 4. Press and hold the system. (Power) button to turn off your P-touch labeling Open the battery cover on the bottom of the P-touch labeling system. Insert the battery into the battery compartment. Close the battery cover.
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IMPORTANT • • • 4. When inserting the tape cassette, make sure that the tape and ink ribbon do not catch on the print head. Make sure that there is no slack in the tape. Otherwise the tape may catch on the protrusion (2) and become bent or wrinkled, causing the tape to jam. To fix the slack in the tape, refer to the illustration in step 1 and pull 2 the tape outside of the tape guide. When removing the tape cassette, make sure that the tape does not catch on the protrusion (2). Close the top cover.
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 Label Creation Screen 1 2 NOTE 3 4 5 6 7 8 To exit or cancel this function press the Esc key. 9 12 10 13 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 Caps mode Indicates that the Caps mode is on. 2-8 Style Guidance Indicates the current font (2), character size (3), character width (4), character style (5), line (6), frame (7), and alignment (8) settings. 9 Layout Guidance Indicates the orientation, layout, separator, reverse, and repeated text settings.
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 Battery Indicator LED Indicators (Battery) The indicators light and flash to indicate the your P-touch labeling system’s status. The symbols used in this section explain the meaning of the different indicator colors and patterns: (Off) = Indicator is lit = Indicator is flashing = Indicator can be off, lit or flashing in any color = Indicator is off Example: G G = Green O = Orange R = Red (Off) (Off) R G G (Power) R (1 time in 1 second) R (2 times in 1.
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Product Specifications Model Name PT-D800W Size Dimensions approx. 13.31" (W) x 7.40" (D) x 6.81" (H) (338 mm (W) × 188 mm (D) × 173 mm (H)) (including keybord LCD unit) Weight approx. 7.50 lb (3.4 kg) (including keybord LCD unit) Printing Method Thermal Transfer Cassette • Brother TZe tape cassette: 0.13" (3.5 mm), 0.23" (6 mm), 0.35" (9 mm), 0.47" (12 mm), 0.70" (18 mm), 0.94" (24 mm), 1.4" (36 mm) • Brother FLe label cassette: 0.82" (21 mm) × 1.77" (45 mm) • Brother HSe tube cassette: 0.23" (5.
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Installing the Software and Printer Driver to a Computer To print from your Windows computer or Mac, install the printer driver, P-touch Editor and other applications to your computer. 1. 2. Printing Problems Problem Solution The label is not printed. • Check that text has been entered and that the tape cassette is installed correctly with sufficient tape remaining. • If the tape is bent, cut off the bent section and thread the tape through the exit slot or tape guides.