[duxuser] Re: FW: Speaking of labels was RE: Re: Printing labels to stick on the back of business cards
- From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:50:10 -0600
I have made such a template for my business cards in the past. I basically set
up the template in DBT and then embossed it from there.
Note of caution:
You can make 2 columns of what you wanted printed on the Braille label.
As well, when you are calculating what you want on the Braille label, make sure
that the number of lines on the label divides evenly into the number of lines
on your Braille page.
EG: 3 goes into 25 8 times leaving 1 blank line left over.
So in this scenario, you either have to add a blank line to the end of your
template, or tell DBT to eject the page after the last line of Braille.
In this way, you can emboss multiple pages and make as many labels as you need.
Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Londa Hauser
> Sent: 2005 May 26 9:40 AM
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: FW: Speaking of labels was RE: Re:
> Printing labels to stick on the back of business cards
>
> Hi Susie,
>
> I'm assuming that you cut these in half for a CD? 8.5 would
> be a bit large for a disk. This doesn't sound like it would
> be difficult. Do you think it is preferable to create the
> file in Duxbury or with a notetaker such as a BrailleNote? Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Susan Stageberg
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:12 AM
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: FW: Speaking of labels was RE:
> Re: Printing
> labels to stick on the back of business cards
>
> Londa, you should be able to use Embossables from American
> Thermoform to label your CD's. They are tractor-fed labels
> with a peel-off backing; each label is 3 inches high and
> 8-1/2 inches wide. I mentioned these yesterday since our
> Library uses them to label Braille books. I got them to work
> fine with Duxbury and a Braille Blazer.
>
> Susie
>
>
> Susie Stageberg
> Project ASSIST with Windows
> Iowa Department for the Blind
> (515) 281-1351
> stageberg.susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Londa Hauser
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:57 AM
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] FW: Speaking of labels was RE: Re:
> Printing labels to stick on the back of business cards
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Londa Hauser [mailto:lhauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:33 AM
> To: 'duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Speaking of labels was RE: [duxuser] Re:
> Printing labels to
> stick
> on the back of business cards
>
> While we're on the subject of labels, has anyone out there
> printed CD labels on an embosser? My fiancé has many CD's,
> and we'd like to label them. It will take forever if we have
> to do it by hand. Thanks. -----Original
> Message-----
> From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> Behalf Of Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:53 PM
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: Printing labels to stick on the back of
> business
> cards
>
> I have not had much luck with embossing labels for business
> cards. Many of the cards now have print on both sides and so
> the braille label has to be clear. We braille lots of
> business cards by hand here at Dolphin Press. We also had
> trouble lining up the label exactly on the card. It is very
> time consuming, but we haven't found a better way. At 09:15
> AM 5/25/2005, you
> wrote:
> >Caroline, in our Library we use cassette labels that are somewhat as
> >you describe, except they have an oval cutout in the middle
> where the
> >innards that make the tape turn are. The only way we can get
> even three
> >lines of Braille on these labels is to use a Braille Blazer,
> which has
> >Label Mode, which sort of scrunches the space between words
> and between
> >lines. Still legible, but compressed. Then we have to create
> the file
> >in a Braille Lite, that has provision for a half a line
> space. Duxbury
> >won't do this. Duxbury works great for the book labels, which are 3
> >inches by 8-1/2 inches; you can use standard line spacing for that.
> >
> >So my concern with Andre's problem is that he's not going to
> be able to
> >get much Braille on the back of a business card. Here at the Iowa
> >Department for the Blind, we send our business cards off
> somewhere, I
> >know not where, (the front office here would know) to be
> Brailled, and
> >you only can get a fraction of the print text on them.
> >
> >It also seems to me that there is a hand-held device that
> you can have
> >custom made so it will emboss your business cards; this doesn't help
> >Andre much. There must be someplace that does this embossing of
> >business cards, as when one attends a tech conference everybody has
> >Braille on their business cards. For the short term, I'd
> suggest doing
> >them by hand.
> >
> >Susie
> >
> >
> >Susie Stageberg
> >Project ASSIST with Windows
> >Iowa Department for the Blind
> >(515) 281-1351
> >stageberg.susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >On Behalf Of Caroline Congdon
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:45 PM
> >To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [duxuser] Re: Printing labels to stick on the back of
> business
> >cards
> >
> >
> >Andre, I am running into a very similar situation. I found
> labels that
> >fit nicely on business cards and that have tractor-feed sprockets on
> >each side.
> >These labels are available from IRTI in the US. However, I have not
> >attempted to emboss on these labels yet for a couple of reasons.
> >First, in order to get as much information as possible onto
> each label
> >you need to
> >
> >make sure that your margins are absolutely precise. I accomplished
> >this
> >
> >using a standard slate and stylus. Using this method, I was able to
> >get 5 lines of braille on each label with 11 characters at
> most on each
> >line. I found that this is such a precise thing that I haven't been
> >comfortable attempting it with my embosser yet. I would
> love to hear
> >from others who have been through this all ready though. Good luck.
> >
> >Caroline
> >
> >Caroline Congdon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> >Mailto:carolinecongdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~carolinecongdon/
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> >
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