How to make a calibration or service-due label
Two dates: when it was done, which prints itself, and when it is due, which is the one that gets the size.
Steps
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Start a 2" × 1" label
New label → Roll / thermal → 2x1.
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Add "CALIBRATED" with an auto date
Small, across the top. Press Auto date field so today's date prints itself every time.
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Add the due date big underneath
Type "DUE", press Auto date field again, then set "+ days" to your interval — 365 for a year, 90 for a quarter — and the label works the due date out for you. Make it the biggest thing on the label.
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Add who did it and the instrument number
A small line at the bottom is enough.
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Do not let the due date be the small text
Somebody glancing at a gauge on a shelf is asking one question — is this still in date — and the label should answer it from a step away.
Worth knowing
- "+ days" counts from the day you print, not the day the work was done. That is right when you are labelling something you have just calibrated; if you are reprinting a label for an instrument done months ago, type both dates instead.