[duxuser] Re: Printing call cards with print and Braille using duxbury
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:31:01 +0100
20 or more years of repairing and maintaining braille
embossers from manufacturers including E.T., Index and
Theil, and I can assure you that trying to get double-sided
(Interpoint) braille out of a single-sided embosser is risky
at best.
Braille dots are generally approximately 2.5 millimeters
appart. That's about point zero one of an inch in old
money. (Well at least it is old money here in Europe as
we've gone metric.) At their base on paper, a braille dot
is about 1 millimeter in diameter - about point zero four of
an inch.
In order to achieve true and accurate interpoint braille,
having produced side one, you have to re-insert the paper
into the embosser in such a way that it is off-set point
zero zero 5 of an inch (1.25 millimeters) vertically and
horizontally.
With sight, and tremedous care, it is possible to do this.
However, all it takes is the very slightest snag in the
paper, and a movement of just one hundredth of an inch, and
front and back dots are touching each other.
And if you have an embosser which uses pins, as opposed to a
positive and negative anvil, and there is a risk that a pin
may get stuck in the reverse side of a braille dot, get
stuck there, and not only tear the paper, but bend the print
when it line feeds. We have fast pin type single-sided
embossers which cost around $30,000 each, and a pin change
can cost a fortune.
Trust me guys - I'm neither a lawyer nor a dentist. (Smile)
George Bell.
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brett
Winches
Sent: 11 July 2008 21:58
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Printing call cards with print and
Braille using duxbury
this may be possible with the TIGER PRO and some other
embossers. I have heard that some will do this but do not
recall just now.
Contact me off list if you need further help.
Merci!
Brett Winchester KD7JN
bwinchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
208.639.8386
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Francis
E. Khan
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:27 PM
To: Duxuser
Subject: [duxuser] Printing call cards with print and
Braille using duxbury
I have received a request about making call cards with both
print and Brailleand would like advice on doing this. For
example, where can I access continuous card stock to print
two cards across and 7 or 8 down. To do the inkprint part
of the process will probably mean using a dot matrix printer
but is there a facility in DBT to braille each card?
Alternatively, is there a company in the USA where this can
be done at a reasonable cost?
Another alternative is to have some sort of seal so that
when it is placed over a card and depressed the Braille will
be reproduced. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Francis Khan
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