Hi Andrew,
The braille Buddy is an embosser from www.irie-at.com … It costs $1495. It
works with Duxbury but also comes with its own translator for word and you can
print from any windows app you wish. It takes both tractor and cut sheet paper
up to 8.5x11 inches paper size and paper from copy paper up to plastic labels
and thermoform permabraille sheets. It prints tactile graphics with lighter
colors with lower dots and darker colors with higher dots. It embosses 25cps.
It is a personal very small volume embosser and is about the size of one of
those small personal cannon inkjet or hp inkjet printers. It is relatively
quiet compared with other embossers and it does not have a fan in it like other
embossers used for schools, offices, and commercial use. It does not talk. You
set its legacy options for embossing to notetakers or Duxbury and apply
settings using your computer’s printer properties in windows. When you apply
the settings the printer beeps to let you know it accepted the changes. I also
managed to change paper size and make it emboss on postcards and junk flyers I
get in the mail. I set media type to cardstock and dot height to high, graphics
quality to standard. But for embossing permabraille thermoform plastic 8.5x11
inch sheets I made a custom media type called it thermoform. After embossing a
test pattern I chose punch force 10 for the lowest and punch force 20 for the
highest. Braille dot height, high, dot quality, I set to normal quality. One
more thing… Is there any way to get the braillerap embosser from:
www.braillerap.com
any way to get the braillerap embosser working with Duxbury?
Josh
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Andrew J. LaPointe
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 3:20 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: braille buddy embosser or emBraille question
What is the Braille Buddy? I know it is an embosser but, how good is the
braille and how expensive is it.? Thanks so much. Andy and Shubert
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Josh Kennedy
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 10:38 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] braille buddy embosser or emBraille question
Hi,
I just got a braille buddy embosser which is similar to the emBraille. I am
having some software issues and its probably me doing something wrong. First,
when using tiger software suite in word, the header pageNumber gets translated
but the braille page number on bottom right does not. Next, all text is pushed
to the left-hand side of the page for some reason. Not sure if I should check
simplify document in tiger word addon preferences? I just got this printer to
emboss the occasional tactile graphic, some church readings here and there,
bank statements, address lists, small embossing jobs. But stuff that would take
a good while to emboss with a slate or perkins brailler. The braille buddy even
embosses on plastic permabraille or 8.5x11 inch thermoform sheets. I am only
using the single sheet feeder as I do not have the space for a big box of
tractor feed paper. So single sheets work fine. The embosser otherwise is very
reliable and has not jammed yet. Oh one other thing. I managed to feed those
smaller 3x5 or so index cards into the embosser but I have to press paper
advance to get it to feed in as it does not sense the card when inserting it.
How do I feed it in, but not to far just enough so I can set paper size and
start embossing at the top of the index card?
If you want to email me off list about this, my email is:
Joshknnd1982@xxxxxxxxx
I will write it out a different way now to make sure it gets through…
J, o, s, h, k, n, n, d, 1, 9, 8, 2, at, g, m, a, I, l, dot, c, o, m.
Thanks
Josh
