You can run the Brother Wire Label Printer report from the Installation Reports category.
This Brother Wire Label Printer report is intended to create wire labels to easily identify wires when connecting equipment.
By default, only connected wires are displayed on this report. For example, wire shapes are connected to shapes or blocks in a Visio or AutoCAD drawing. However, there is a Report setting if you want unconnected wires to display in this interface.
If you are using the 64-bit version of Visio or AutoCAD, you must run the Brother Wire Label report directly within Project Explorer, not from within either drawing interface.
Supported Brother Label Printers
The two primary print devices that work with this report are the Brother PT-P900W and PT-P950NW. They look like this.
These printers come with Brother P-Touch software that allows you to create your own wire label templates. All stock SI templates were designed to be used with .94" label tape similar to this option. For a complete list of print devices the Brother SDK supports, click here.
Although the Brother SDK may support more printers than the two listed above, those are the only two printers supported by SI.
Printing Interface
When you generate this report, the following interface opens.
The fields you can choose for your labels are: Wire Number (Wire Component ID), Head End, Location, Source Component ID, Destination Component ID, From Manufacturer, From Model, To Manufacturer, and To Model.
You can choose which fields are displayed by clicking the Field Chooser button. A window will open to allow you to choose which fields you want.
To select an order, drag the columns into the desired position.
The Label Template dropdown menu displays the stock SI templates for these wire labels.
You can fill in the Note field if you want to put a message on the labels.
When you select a template, a preview will be displayed.
You must have the Brother P-Touch software installed for the preview to display. Also, the image on the stock templates appears fuzzy in the preview, but that is just a display issue; the image prints nicely.
You can either print all the labels or select the ones you want by using Shift or Ctrl on your keyboard.
There are Print All and Print Selected buttons in the upper left corner of the interface.
The print device automatically scores each label for easy peeling.
Customization
Custom templates can be built based on our existing templates using the Brother P-Touch software.
Check out this article for more details.