[duxuser] Re: Printing labels to stick on the back of business cards
- From: "D Hansen" <donald801@xxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:41:56 -0500
The American Printing House makes a hand held business card
press. The problem is, it takes several weeks to get it, once
it's ordered. If I remember correctly, you can get four lines of
braille with 14 characters per line.
Don
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From: "Susan Stageberg" <stageberg.susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Printing labels to stick on the back of
business cards
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
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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
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