Flag cable is also called “P typed label” because of its shape. They were widely used on the labeling of optical fiber cables.
Flag cable label consists of three printable areas, A side, B side, and Flag Area. Since Flag Area will be hidden between A side and B side when applied in the field, we usually print information only on A side and B side.
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| Sheet Size: | 215.9 mm x 279.4 mm | Labels Per Sheet: | 30 |
| Number Across | 3 | Number Down | 10 |
| Label Width: | 84 mm (3.31 inch) | Label Height: | 26 mm (1.02 inch) |
| Print Area Width: | 37 mm | Print Area Height : | 13 mm |
| Flag Area Width: | 47 mm | Flag Area Height : | 10 mm |
| Top Margin: | 7.95 mm | Bottom Margin: | 7.95 mm |
| Left Margin: | 7.2 mm | Right Margin: | 7.2 mm |
| Horizontal Spacing: | 6.5 mm | Vertical Spacing: | 2 mm |
| Horizontal Pitch: | 90.5 mm | Vertical Pitch: | 28 mm |
Can you use a Apple Mac computer for the layout tool and print from a apple mac for the MR183 Offline Print Template – 1 x 3.3 inch – US Letter Size Sheet – Flag Cable Labels onto a HP laser printer?? Thanks
Dear customer,
If you don’t change the layout on your Mac the templates is ok. And it’s ok to print using HP laser printer.
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Did you guys delete my last reply? The template for this for the Mac version doesn’t work, all of the letters aren’t symmetries, the spacing is terrible, it prints out of the lines, can this please be fixed or not?
Dear customer,
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience we bring to you.
We sent you an email that day, maybe it failed.
We provide you a new word template for you to print, if you have further questions please contact us directly by email.
Thanks.
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Thanks for your feedback.
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Hey,
I was wondering if i can insert barcode/s in the side A/B. Any suggestion how to insert it, i am using the microsoft excel file to work on.
Dear customer,
Here is the instruction http://mr-label.com/articles/5232
I am using windows 10 MS Word downloaded template for MR183 The label page is somewhat larger than paper tray for standard letter on HP M402 . However how do I adjust sine only one clumn lines up
Dear customer,
Is the paper tray adjustable? You can adjust the width of paper tray to make it fit the paper. And make sure the paper setting in both Word and printer is US letter size.
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WOW just what I was searching for. Came here by searching for a
I downloaded the MR183 template for MS Word for the 8.5″x11″ labels. The line-to-line spacing had to be continuously adjusted by changing the font size at the end of a line (larger or smaller) to keep the text within the template for the next line. I tried to use text boxes that could be positioned where I wanted to print labels with limited success. The text boxes would move if you typed outside of them. Finally, I gave up and just scanned a blank sheet of the labels on a flatbed scanner. I imported the scanned image into Corel Designer 2026. I created a new layer in that program that I could type anything I wanted and position the print anywhere I wanted. By having both layers on I could see where to place my printed labels. Turning off the scanned image layer allowed me to print an entire sheet with perfect alignment.
Hi, Tom
Thank you for taking the time to write this up in such detail — it helped us pinpoint exactly what’s happening.
Why it behaves this way. Each label cell in the MR183 template has a fixed height that’s locked to the die-cut position of the physical label. That lock is intentional: it’s what guarantees every label on the sheet stays aligned with the printed sheet, no matter what you type. The trade-off is that Word will not grow a cell to fit extra text — anything taller than the cell simply gets clipped and disappears from view. Word also has no “shrink text to fit” feature (unlike PowerPoint), so when text runs past the cell, the only lever is the font size. That’s exactly the manual back-and-forth you ran into.
What to do if you hit this. Rather than resizing text line by line, change the paragraph spacing once so the line count becomes predictable:
1.Select the label cells (or the whole table).
2.Home → Paragraph dialog → Line spacing: Exactly, set to 12 pt, spacing before/after 0.
3.Set the font to 10 pt.
With those settings the taller label panels hold 3 full lines and the shorter panels hold 2, consistently, with no clipping and no manual adjusting. We’re keeping the default at 12 pt since most customers print one or two short lines and prefer the larger, more legible type — but the change above takes about ten seconds if you need more room.
How much text fits. These are small labels — roughly 1.45″ wide by 0.5″ tall per panel. At the default 12 pt they comfortably hold about 20 characters per line, 2 lines. They’re designed for short identifiers (names, dates, part or cable numbers), not descriptions or sentences. If your content regularly runs longer than that, a larger label format will serve you much better than fighting the cell size.
On the text boxes. They drifted because Word anchors a text box to the nearest paragraph by default, so it moves as text is typed. Selecting the box → Layout Options → Fix position on page stops that. Your scanner-and-layer workaround in Corel was a clever solution, though — nicely done.
Thanks again for the feedback. Reports like yours are what let us make the templates and instructions clearer for everyone.
Have a nice day!
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