Designation Card Manager

MD110 Communication System

User Guide

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What Is Designation Card Manager?

1 What Is Designation Card

Manager?

The Designation Card Manager makes it possible for you to create

designation cards to put on your Ericsson telephones. All you need
is a PC and a printer. Designation Card Manager can be used both
with Ericsson pre-cut papers, or with any paper your printer will
take. A wide variety of standard labels for Ericsson telephones are
available, and translations for several languages are included in the
program.
Producing standard designation cards is a matter of a few key
presses! And what’s more, you can edit each single key label, to
enter extension numbers and names. You can even include
symbols on the designation cards. No more hand-written labels on
your telephones. A free selection of colors and text styles makes it
easy to personalize your office telephones.

Note: On some telephones, the plastic cover over the

designation card is transparent grey, which may change the
appearance of colors.

1.1 Requirements
• Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows 2000
(service pack 2 or higher), Windows XP (service pack 1 or
higher) or Windows NT4 (service pack 4 or higher)
• TrueType font Arial required. Any additional TrueType fonts can
also be used.
• A4 capable printer.

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2 How To Use the Designation

Card Manager

2.1 Creating Designation Cards

To create a new designation card layout

From the File menu, Select New Card.

Make selections of language, telephone type etc.

When you see the generated telephone layout on your screen, you
can edit each label.

Note: As the program does not supply all languages for all
telephone types, some texts may appear in English even if
you selected another language. However, you can edit
these texts and type your own translation.

To edit text

Click on the text to edit.

Type your text, select font, color, horizontal and vertical alignment
etc.

Add new texts in the empty fields.

You can press Tab to go to the next field.
The text fields are quite limited. Use a small text size to fit more
text. You can break the text into more than one line. Always check
the end result by a test print, since the design window does not
show the exact output.

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To use images and symbols

Click the Image radio button.

Browse to find your icon or logo.

See section ’Logos In the Image Directory’.

To enter extension numbers (Dialog 3000 phones only)

You can enter an extension number on the extension number label,
or you can let the Designation Card Manager create a running
number series automatically during printout.

2.2 Saving Designation Cards

From the File menu, Select Save.

Save your designation cards on your computer or network

drive.
It is a good idea to create sets of designation cards for your office,
and saving them in a directory. By default, this is the Cards
directory.

Note: If you are using a network drive to save your

designation cards, the network drive must be mapped to a
drive letter. Otherwise, printout will not work correctly.
Please refer to your Windows help on how to map a
network drive.

Storing and distributing designation cards

By setting up a library of ready-made designation card files, you will
make it easy to reprint cards later, or to make copies for creating
similar cards. It is also possible to create the cards on one
computer, and move them to another computer for printout, as
long as Designation Card Manager is installed on both computers.

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2.3 Printing Designation Cards

To print a single card

You can print the single card that you have created or opened. You
can print on Ericsson pre-cut designation card papers, or any A4
size paper.

Mark the checkbox for each of the card items that you want
to print.
Depending on telephone type, you can select the designation
cards for telephone and the additional key panels, and the cards for
extension number and the pull-out leaf.

Click the Print button.

Now you can choose to print on standard paper or pre-cut paper.
For pre-cut papers, it is recommended to perform an initial printer
calibration. See section ’Printer Calibration’.

Printing using the Print Wizard

Using the Print Wizard, you can print cards for a selected
telephone, without opening the file, or you can print all cards that
you have saved in a directory. The Print Wizard also helps you to
print an automatic numbering sequence for extension number
cards.

2.4 Time-saving Features For Editing

Designation Cards

To change the style for all text fields of a telephone

From the Edit menu, select Change Field Styles.

To be able to change a property, you must first activate the
property.

Click the checkbox next to the property you want to edit.

Apply the changes by pressing Apply or OK.

If you choose Apply, you can undo the changes by pressing
Cancel. If you choose OK, the changes are made and the window
is closed.

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To re-use the style from one field to another

Edit a text field as appropriate.

Text size, alignment, font, color etc. The style settings are saved.

Click in another field which is empty and start to type.

The style of the previously selected field is applied to the new field.

To cut, copy and paste between fields

Any text or image in a field can be cut or copied and later pasted in
another field by using the commands in the Edit menu or the
equivalent keyboard shortcuts.
If you paste text in a field already containing some text, the format
of the pasted text is ignored, i.e. the pasted text uses the same
format as the text already written.

2.5 Creating Your Own Symbols

The Designation Card Manager can use any Windows bitmap file
that you can create in your preferred image editing software. In
order to make the image fit correctly on the designation cards, the
images must be of the correct sizes, see page 8.
If the proportions are not correct, the Designation Card Manager
will resize the image when importing, resulting in bad image quality.

To create an image

Find an image of the correct size in the Images directory.

Use this image as a template in your preferred image editing
software. Or, you can create a completely new image of the correct
size.

Edit the symbol as desired.

Make sure there is a one pixel black or grey dot in each of the
upper left and lower right corners.
This is to assure white space around the symbol or icon.
Otherwise, Designation Card Manager will size up the image to the
edges of the field.

Save the image under a new name.

If you do not want to save your images in the Images directory,
please make sure that you save them in the same directory as
where you put your corresponding cards.

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Image sizes for Dialog 4000 phones

For example Dialog 4223, Dialog 4224 Operator, Dialog 4147 etc.

490x57 pixels: For wide header images on the top of wide

designation cards for Dialog 4224 Operator,
Dialog 4225, 4425, 4422, 4222, 4220 and
4147.

343x125 pixels: For narrow header images on the top of

narrow designation cards for Dialog 4186
and 4223.

216x125 pixels: For symbols on Dialog 4224 Operator, Dialog

4225, 4425, 4422, 4222, 4220 and 4147.

314x125 pixels: For symbols on Dialog 4186 and 4223.

Image sizes for Dialog 3000 phones

For example Dialog 3213, Dialog 3212, OPI 3214, Dialog 3185 etc.

572x125 pixels: For wide header images on the top of wide

designation cards for Dialog 3213, OPI 3214

308x125 pixels: For narrow header images on the top of

narrow designation cards for Dialog 3212,
Dialog 3185.

375x38 pixels: For a low header image on the top of Dialog

3210 designation card.

338x125 pixels: For symbols on the 3210 or analog

telephones.

300x125 pixels: For symbols on other telephones and key

panels.

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2.6 Using Pre-cut Paper

It is recommended to use Ericsson pre-cut papers. They have been
perforated to make it easy to produce professionally looking
designation cards for your Ericsson telephones. For Dialog 3000
telephones, the pre-cut papers have the correct grey background
color. You can order them from your local Ericsson distributor.

Name:
Position:
Company:
Address:
City:
Postcode: Country:
Tel: Fax:
Email:

Pre-cut designation papers in white, for Dialog 4000 telephones.

Quantity Article number Description
x20 LZTBS 160 021/1 Dialog 4224 Operator
x20 LZTBS 160 021/2 Dialog 4223, 4186
x20 LZTBS 160 021/3 Dialog 4225, 4425, 4422, 4222, 4220, 4147
x20 LZTBS 160 021/4 Key panel
x20 LZTBS 160 021/5 Pull-out leaf for Dialog 4224 Operator, 4225, 4425, 4223
x20 LZTBS 160 021/6 Pull-out leaf for Dialog 4422, 4222, 4220
DBY 901 07 R1A Dialog 4000 Designation Card Kit containing 20 copies of
each pre-cut paper type, plus one copy of the Telephone
Toolbox CD

Pre-cut designation papers in grey, for Dialog 3000 telephones.

Quantity Article number Description
x20 LZTBS 203 10/1 Extension number labels
x20 LZTBS 203 10/2 Dialog 3210
x20 LZTBS 203 10/3 Dialog 3211, Dialog 3212
x20 LZTBS 203 10/4 Dialog 3213, Dialog 3413, OPI 3214
x20 LZTBS 203 10/5 Key panel
x20 LZTBS 203 10/6 Dialog 3145, Dialog 3146, Dialog 3185, Dialog 3186
FAB 106 967 R2A Dialog 3000 Designation Card Kit containing 20 copies of
each pre-cut paper type, plus one copy of the Telephone
Toolbox CD

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2.7 Printer Calibration

The position of a printout may be different on different printers. If
you use Ericsson pre-cut papers, it is important that the printout is
placed correctly inside the pre-cut designation cards. If you print on
ordinary paper, you do not have to perform the calibration.
After your calibration is ready, the DCM program will store the
adjusting values (x and y offset) on your computer. Therefore, you
do not have to repeat the calibration, unless you change printer. It
will be valid for all pre-cut papers.

Insert an Ericsson pre-cut paper in the printer you will use.

Check paper orientation!

Click Print Test Page.

Check the position of the calibration mark on the pre-cut

paper.

Read the values where the perforation crosses the printed

scales.
In the dialog box the dotted lines simulate the perforation.

Enter the values by moving the arrows so that the dotted

lines cut through the scales on the same values as you see
on the paper.

Click Back to make a new test printout after your calibration,

and make additional adjustments, until the calibration mark
crosses the perforation at "F" and "6" respectively.
These are the final calibration values that will be stored.

Notes:
The calibration values will be stored in the file “DCM3.ini”,
which is located in the Designation Card Manager program
folder. Make sure the file “DCM3.ini” is present and that it is
not write-protected.

There is no need to discard a designation card paper that

has been used for calibration. To avoid the upper left
position, set the number of designation card copies to at
least two.

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2.8 Logos In the Image Directory

Dialog 4000 phones

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2.9 Hotel Icons In the Image Directory

Dialog 4000 phones

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Dialog 3000 phones

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