How to make asset tags for equipment and IT
A 2" × 1" asset tag: an ownership line, the asset number big with a matching barcode, and a whole office tagged from one spreadsheet.
Steps
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Start a 2" × 1" label
New label → Roll / thermal → 2x1.
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Add the ownership line
"Property of" and your company name, small and bold across the top. It does not need to be big — it needs to be there.
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Put the asset number in the middle, big
Centred and bold, with the same number as a barcode underneath so an audit is a walk around with a scanner.
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Leave auto-fit on for the number
Asset numbers grow digits as a company grows. You do not want the label that worked at a thousand items breaking at ten thousand.
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Tag everything at once
Put {Asset} in both the text and the barcode, then point the Print window at a spreadsheet with an Asset column. One label per row, numbered and barcoded.
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Put them in the same place every time
Same corner of every machine, so people know where to look.