Engineering Delivery
Turn a cable schedule or equipment list into print-ready labels for a systems-integration job — type or import the data, lay it out on standard Brady media sizes (cable wraps, flags, heatshrink sleeves, equipment and port labels), preview every label at true scale, and print to your label printer.
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On a systems-integration job the labels are the last mile: every cable, patch lead, panel port and piece of equipment has to carry a clear, durable identifier that matches the documentation. Most teams type those identifiers into a label printer one at a time, or wrestle with a generic mail-merge. The Cable & Equipment Labelling Tool is built to do the whole batch at once — from the same data you already keep — and to lay each label out for the exact media you load into the printer.
It starts with a grid. Type the cable runs or equipment straight into a spreadsheet-style table — Tab across, Enter down, paste a block from Excel — or import a cable schedule or equipment list you exported from the other Engineering Delivery tools, and the columns map across automatically. Each row becomes one label (or several copies — both ends of a cable, for instance).
Then you design the label. Pick a label type — self-laminating cable wrap, cable flag, heatshrink sleeve, equipment / asset label, faceplate or patch-panel port — and a media size from a catalogue seeded with the standard Brady M21 tape widths (9.5, 12.7, 19 and 25.4 mm) plus die-cut and heatshrink sizes, or add your own. Build the label’s text lines from your columns or fixed text, set the font size, weight and alignment, and the preview updates at true physical scale. When it’s right, the Print tab shows every label at real size and sends them to your label printer through the browser’s print dialog — the Brady connected over USB is there once its driver or Brady Workstation is installed. You can also export the resolved label data to CSV to mail-merge into label software. It produces the artwork and the data; it doesn’t need a proprietary USB protocol.
Build the whole batch in an inline grid. Tab moves across, Enter moves down and adds a row, and a block copied from Excel pastes straight in. Each row becomes a label, with a per-row copy count so both ends of a cable print together. It is faster than keying identifiers into a handheld printer one by one.
Bring in a project you already built in the Cable Schedule Generator or Equipment List Generator — the JSON imports and its columns (cable number, from / to, type; or tag, description, location, quantity) map onto the label fields automatically, so the labels come straight from the source of truth.
A catalogue of common Brady printers — M210, M211, BMP21-PLUS, BMP61, M410, M610, M611, M710, i3300, i5300, BBP33 — plus any other system printer, each flagged with how it prints. The media is grounded in Brady’s published ranges: real M21 part numbers and tape widths (6.35 / 9.53 / 12.7 / 19.05 / 25.4 / 31.75 / 38.1 mm) across vinyl, nylon, self-laminating, PermaSleeve heatshrink, polyester and QuickFlag, plus M61 / M7 sizes for the BMP61 / M611 / M710 (up to 50.8 mm) and generic rolls and die-cut. The media list filters to the printer you pick; widths and part numbers are real, lengths editable, and you can add custom printers and media.
Pick your printer and the tool says how the labels reach it: desktop / industrial Brady (i3300, BBP33…) and any printer installed on your PC print straight from the browser dialog; the M211 prints from the Express Labels app and the M610 / M611 through Brady Workstation — export the CSV and import there; the M210 and BMP21-PLUS are standalone keypads. No guesswork about whether “connect and print” will work.
Self-laminating cable wraps (with the clear laminate tail shown), cable flags that fold to read on both sides, heatshrink sleeves with a repeating legend, and equipment / asset, faceplate and patch-panel port labels. The label type drives how the artwork is laid out.
Each label is a stack of text lines, every line either pulled from a data column or fixed text, with its own point size, weight and alignment. Empty lines drop out automatically, so a cable with no “to” end simply omits that line. A rotation control runs the legend along the cable for wraps and sleeves.
The preview renders the label at true physical size for the chosen media, including the self-laminating band, the flag fold and the legend repeat. An estimate flags any label whose text is likely to overrun the printable area before you waste a cartridge on it.
The Print tab lays every label out at real size and prints through the browser’s print dialog — pick your label printer (a Brady over USB is there once installed), set the matching media and print at 100 %. Or export the resolved label data to CSV / clipboard for mail-merge into label software such as Brady Workstation. Everything auto-saves to the browser.
Reach for the Cable & Equipment Labelling Tool in any of the following situations.
Yes — if the printer is installed on the laptop as a normal system printer. Pick your printer in the tool and it tells you exactly how it prints. Desktop and industrial Brady printers (i3300, i5300, BBP33) install a Windows driver, so they appear in the browser print dialog and print straight from the Print tab at true scale — as does the M710 (which ships a Windows driver and is commonly used over USB), and any non-Brady printer such as Brother, DYMO and Zebra. The Brady handhelds are different: the M211 prints from the Express Labels mobile app and the BMP61 / M610 / M611 go through Brady Workstation, so they don’t show up in the browser dialog — for those, export the label data to CSV and import it there (the BMP61 also prints standalone from its own keypad). The M210 and BMP21-PLUS are standalone keypad printers; use the tool to plan the run and get the sizes right. The rule of thumb: if you can already print a test page to it from any other app on your laptop, this tool prints to it too.
It ships a catalogue of common Brady printers (M210, M211, BMP21-PLUS, BMP61, M410, M610, M611, M710, i3300, i5300, BBP33) plus a catch-all for any other system printer, each flagged with how it prints. The media catalogue is grounded in Brady’s published M21 range — real part numbers and tape widths (6.35, 9.53, 12.7, 19.05, 25.4, 31.75 and 38.1 mm) across B-595 vinyl, B-499 nylon, B-427 self-laminating, B-342 PermaSleeve heatshrink, B-423 polyester and B-483 QuickFlag — plus generic rolls and die-cut sizes. Widths and part numbers are real; lengths and self-laminating print bands are editable defaults you confirm against your exact part. The media list filters to the printer you pick, and you can add custom printers and media.
Yes. Export the project from the Cable Schedule Generator or Equipment List Generator as JSON and import it here. Its columns map onto the label fields by role — cable number / tag becomes the identifier, from / to and description carry across — so you label straight from the source of truth instead of re-keying.
A self-laminating wrap shows a printable band plus the clear laminate tail that wraps over the print to protect it; the preview draws both. A cable flag shows the two folded halves so the legend reads from either side. Heatshrink sleeves and wraps can repeat the legend along the length so it stays readable once fitted. The label type you pick drives the layout.
The preview renders at true scale, and an estimate flags any label whose longest line or stacked lines are likely to overrun the printable area for the chosen media and font size. It is an estimate to catch obvious overflow before you waste a cartridge — reduce the font size or pick wider media and it clears.
Just the labels. It is a labelling tool — it builds, lays out, previews and prints the labels, and exports the label data. It does not size cables, compute loss or design the network. The platform’s other Engineering Delivery tools build the cable schedule and equipment list that feed it.
Free forever on a Standard account. No credit card.
