Company gave me a Brother VC 500W to print QR labels with it generated by a different Programm
worked fine
hand to make one myself for a different project
the programm turns of the option to generate a QR code if you select the VC 500W
support says because that printer is designed for small pictures
why would you turn off a function that should 100% work just cause the printer wasnt designed for that specific thing??
i can do text
i can do pictures that inlcude a QR code
but i cant make one just cause i intent to print with a printer you dont want me to use??
Version 6.5.1.0 offers little improvement over its predecessor. I appreciate being able to finally select multiple rows with shift-click and ctrl-click as introduced by Apple in 1984! I also appreciate the new version being able to work with databases that have more columns than the prior version could handle.
But, I don't appreciate the loss of being able to display a dense list of rows in the records panel. Prettiness seems to have taken priority over user productivity. If the market is driven by prettiness, then there should be a panel for advanced users that is optimized for productivity.
And speaking of productivity, speed is the worst aspect of it all in the new version. It is so slow, that it aggravates me every time I use it. That seriously harms the Brother brand image and my expectation of high quality equipment.
I have nine bother printers and decided to buy Epson recently because it is more polished and faster. Time has great value. Brother leadership seems to have has lost this understanding and and have decided to their market focus to attract casual users. I find it hard to understand how they can think these aggravating shortcomings will help them optimize their market share and future value.
Absolute garbage. I have battled for years with this old, limited and simply frustrating software. I have 3 QL printers and they all react differently to this software with their own bugs. The 570, 700 and expensive 800 which I have just thrown out the door in disgust. Brother, you are a big enough company to get something as basic as this software right. I am going to teach the other printers a lesson now and the software is to blame. Miserable to work with. 1 star on a good day.
VERY dated editor, makes it more complicated than it should be.
Editing text box sizes / text size makes no sense as it changes everything
and changing the size needed for a continuous roll just moves everything around so i have to go back and re edit all my labels
I faced the same thing and the behavior can be changed. You can make the size fixed in text box layout property. Choose Fixed Size layout and then choose to clip (or wrap) text which does not fit – instead of Resize. Then, the text will never resize again. Text box layout dropdown menu and dialog box allowing to customize details of its behavior are also directly accessible from the toolbar.
I have been using P-Touch editor for some years with great success together with a Brother QL-700 Lable Printer. However, this weekend I foolishly upgraded to version 5.4003. The result has been a disaster. Now it does not recognize the size of the label that I use - 62 by 29 mm. I cannot print a single label.
Richard, The same with me . I am facing the same issues . Tried to print label for Patch panel using Labeling Wizards .Length is 433 mm and total 48 cell. As soon as I connect data base file to P-touch editor not recognize the length even cell
The editor has so many functions that the learning curve is rather shallow. And let's be honest -- it doesn't always work the way you expect (eg, changing the aspect ratio of the text box also alters the text itself). A huge amount of information is displayed; it's almost as complex-looking as Photoshop. You have to accept that it takes time to master. (There is no specific "user manual", other than the help system.)
The "huge margins" aren't compulsory. You can choose wide or narrow margins. (It's in the Print dialog box.)
On the other hand... Any program can print to a Brother label machine. A draw or paint program might provide just what you need. (I haven't tried this.)
The Editor 5.0 is lame. No exact representation of pixels in the printer. Insufficient zoom. Limit on label lentgth! Erratic frame sizing. No pointer coordinates displayed. And wasting of expensive tape by compulsory huge margins.
worked fine
hand to make one myself for a different project
the programm turns of the option to generate a QR code if you select the VC 500W
support says because that printer is designed for small pictures
why would you turn off a function that should 100% work just cause the printer wasnt designed for that specific thing??
i can do text
i can do pictures that inlcude a QR code
but i cant make one just cause i intent to print with a printer you dont want me to use??
But, I don't appreciate the loss of being able to display a dense list of rows in the records panel. Prettiness seems to have taken priority over user productivity. If the market is driven by prettiness, then there should be a panel for advanced users that is optimized for productivity.
And speaking of productivity, speed is the worst aspect of it all in the new version. It is so slow, that it aggravates me every time I use it. That seriously harms the Brother brand image and my expectation of high quality equipment.
I have nine bother printers and decided to buy Epson recently because it is more polished and faster. Time has great value. Brother leadership seems to have has lost this understanding and and have decided to their market focus to attract casual users. I find it hard to understand how they can think these aggravating shortcomings will help them optimize their market share and future value.
Editing text box sizes / text size makes no sense as it changes everything
and changing the size needed for a continuous roll just moves everything around so i have to go back and re edit all my labels
The "huge margins" aren't compulsory. You can choose wide or narrow margins. (It's in the Print dialog box.)
On the other hand... Any program can print to a Brother label machine. A draw or paint program might provide just what you need. (I haven't tried this.)