Brother PT-P710BT User manual

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Quick Setup Guide (English)
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9LVLWinstall.brother and install the printer driver and P-touch Editor by
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8. Print from Your Computer
The following software can
be selected for installation: Features
Printer Driver Software required to print from a label printer.
P-touch Editor
Label creation software for computers. This
application comes with built-in drawing tools
that allow you to print a wide variety of custom
labels in complex layouts with text of different
fonts and styles, frames, imported images,
barcodes, etc.
P-touch Update Software
Update applications to the latest version.
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Editor for Mac.
Printer Setting Tool Configure settings for the label printer.
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ready to print a new label.
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