Cable Ctrl

What it is

Cable Ctrl makes fold-over cable flags for the Liene PixCut S1, a photo sticker printer that also cuts. It doesn't print anything by itself: it gives you sheets to open in the Liene Photo app, so you need that printer. Type what each cable is, and it makes the sheets.

What you need

• A Liene PixCut S1 photo sticker printer and cutter.
• The Liene Photo app for Mac.
• Liene 4 × 7 sticker paper.

Cable Ctrl has only been tested with this printer, app and paper. Its sheet size, cut border and settings are made for the PixCut. Other printers haven't been tested, and a sheet made here may not print or cut correctly on them.

The three steps

1. Label Tab Design: set the size to your thickest cable. The header tells you if the design prints.
2. Label Information: add labels one by one, as a numbered run, or from a spreadsheet.
3. Label Print: save the sheets and enter the settings in the Liene app.

Faster labelling

Types give every cable of a kind the same band colour. Change a type's colour and all of its labels follow. Type names are never printed.

Numbered runs make matched numbers without typing each one, with one tab for each end of the cable.

Spreadsheets: press Get template, fill it in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, and open it here as .xlsx or .csv. You'll see what will be added before anything changes.

Printing on the Liene

1. Press Save and open the sheet in the Liene Mac app.
2. Keep the lock on. Type W 90.0, H 170.0, X 0.0, Y 0.0.
3. Set cutting mode to Separate.
4. Set Border to match Cut border in Label Tab Design.
5. Leave AI remove background off, then print.

Putting a tab on

1. Peel the whole tab and hold it printed side toward you.
2. Press the cable onto the sticky back, behind the gray band.
3. Wrap the neck around the cable so both faces swing to one side.
4. Press the sticky sides together, starting at the cable.

On a thinner cable the extra neck sticks to itself, and the faces sit a little further out.

Errors and fixes

Line 2 is small: shorten it, or raise the tab height.

Can't print: the message names the setting to change and the value that fixes it.

Lost track of the size: press Reset to defaults in Label Tab Design. Your labels stay as they are, and Undo brings the size back.

That file has no Line 1 or Line 2 column: start from the template.

An older or protected Excel file: save it as .xlsx or .csv.

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Privacy

Cable Ctrl makes no network requests and has no analytics. Your list and your spreadsheets stay on this device.