How do I arrange train sets?

[bc6]

Here are some labels that I made on the P-Touch for the passenger cars.

[Kingmeow]

Next time, do all 10 at once, each separated by a few spaces.  Then cut them apart after printing.  You will save a lot of wasted leader tape.  (Unless that's your desired intention above.)

 

Also, another hint.  You can pick smaller fonts or even narrow fonts to make them more narrow in case they are too big for N-scale.

[bc6]

1 hour ago, Kingmeow said:

Next time, do all 10 at once, each separated by a few spaces.  Then cut them apart after printing.  You will save a lot of wasted leader tape.  (Unless that's your desired intention above.)

 

Also, another hint.  You can pick smaller fonts or even narrow fonts to make them more narrow in case they are too big for N-scale.

Those are good suggestions that I'll use for the next set of labels. Do you know if you can serialize 1-10 with the frame.

 

Hopefully I won't need to shrink the font anymore than what they currently are. I'm 99% sure that they'll fit even with the limited space underneath the E321 hopefully lol.

[Kingmeow]

I remembered reading about serialization in the instruction manual for my unit but I have never tried it.  I think it depends on the firmware of your unit if it can do that or not.  Check your instruction manual.

 

I *believe* my unit can do it but I have no need as I don't need too many of these at a time.  🙂

[bc6]

Oh ok, I see there's an 800 # 8 may give them a call.

[Kingmeow]

OK, I was curious and went and look.  It does have serialization.  Brother calls it "auto-numbering" and the function happens just as you are about to print the label.  Take a look at the instruction in MY manual.  Could be model dependent.

 

 

BTW, my model is PT-2030VP with carry case (room to store blank tapes too) and AC adapter.  It was purchased in February 2013 for Buy.com (not Rakuten I think).  Must have been some kind of deal/sale as I paid...what for it...$15 new, which included shipping!  The outfit was in a mini typewriter (remember those?  🤣) plastic carrying case.

[Kingmeow]

Oh, what the heck.  Here's the entire kit.  😁

 

[cteno4]

Sadly our little d210 puts full leader spacing between the sequence of numbers when using numbering, so about the same as doing them individually! Brother does everything they can to make you waste the tape, it’s how they make their money.

 

It also does not let you turn framing on and off. We had an older model that was more sophisticated that let you turn all the formatting on and off for some of the characters in a label, but that one is long gone. I remember doing a project with a ton of small labels and doing a bunch in a row with different formatting and just spitting the whole thing out and chopping it all up to save tape. 

 

I’ll mess with the Bluetooth one tonight it lets you do a lot of editing and layout with the software, but is very unintuitive.

 

Jeff