Also known as: braille graphics
Technologies: Tiger Advantage, Enabling Technologies,
Nippon Telesoft, Index Braille, Duxbury, Pentronics, Tactile Graphics Designer,
Picture Braille.
Principles: A printer punches dots into paper, and those dots
can be placed in such a way as to form graphics.
What are Embossed Graphics?
Embossed Graphics are images made up from dots usually produced
on some braille embosser, and some embossers are specially designed
to produce graphics.
How to make Embossed Graphics.
Embossed graphics can be made in a variety of ways depending
on available software and embossers.
Most standard embossers can produce graphics, although those
produced with variable dot, or specialist embossers can lead to
better results.
Special images (files such as: brg, sig, vim) can be imported
into braille translation software such as Duxbury to emboss as
part of a regular document. It is also possible to send an image
directly to some embossers from the DOS prompt.
The Tiger Advantage embosser can emboss directly from Windows
applications (such as Excel), and produce braille with the use
of a special font.
Where to buy equipment.
Software:
Duxbury braille transcription
Tactile Graphics Designer (TGD)
Picture Braille (Pentronics)
Hardware:
Enabling Technologies
Everest Embossers
Index Braille
Nippon Telesoft
RNIB
TechnoVision
ViewPlus Technologies
Links to Suppliers Details
Strong Points
- Once designed, one-step production
- Easy to mass-produce
- Paper is cheap
Weak Points
- No height variation (on most embossers)
- Limited shapes and fills
- Not very durable
- Not easily visible
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