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
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