Full Version: New braille method for signs
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#21]
18 Feb 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#20] 19 Feb 2005
It worked without a problem. Thanks.
From: ARAMember [#22]
19 Feb 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#20] 19 Feb 2005
Remember the older label makers that actually "pressed" the letter into the label, and caused a "Raised" effect? It was like a gun, and you spun the dial to the letter you wanted next, and simply squeezed the trigger?
I saw braile done exactly like that in a local hospital. Made by the press method, and must have been done on the exact same gun contraption, because the plastic tape was identical to the tape that goes in my letter gun. I looked for over a month for the gun used to make the braile tape that was on the signs throughout the hospital..... but never found one! I even tried to find out who made the signs.... but no luck!
??????? anyone seen one of these tape guns?
Justin
From: Jim (RETAIL74) [#23]
19 Feb 2005
To: Pedaler (ROYBREWER) [#19] 19 Feb 2005
In my opinion, it takes too long to set up the auto-raster. It's great for big shops that can devote a machine to it. If you have to break it down and set it up multiple times, it's a pain.
I would purchase the kit with Accent's Raster Pen. The pen has the small braille dots loaded into it and puts them in ten times as fast as that little fish pump dispenser. The pen is half the price of the auto-raster.
Product pictures can be found on www.accentsignage.com.
From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#24]
19 Feb 2005
To: ARAMember [#22] 19 Feb 2005
Justin,
You may want to contact the company that makes the Dymo-Tape printers.
From: ARAMember [#25]
19 Feb 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#24] 19 Feb 2005
I did when I looked a couple years ago....and the people I got there, either didn't understand what meant... or didn't want to.
Do you think this idea of doing braile would be ADA compliant?
REWARDEM
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#26]
19 Feb 2005
To: ARAMember [#25] 20 Feb 2005
At Tapecom we used to get that type of label from Lighthouse for the blind. we used them in quantities from 25-2500 at a time. They had to be done on an automatic machine.
(P.S. Do not take that type of tape, affix it to a cassette, apply shrinkwrap, then shrink the wrap. After the shrink process, you have flat tape again. [Now how would I know that?]
From: trophyman (MIKEBERGER) [#27]
21 Feb 2005
To: ARAMember [#22] 21 Feb 2005
I have one that we use to make plates for a blind bowling tournament. It was sold by Scott for their manual pantagraph about 15 years ago. The main problem that we had with it, was that the letter wheel would get out of sync with the embossing wheel. We would take the gun with us to the tournament and do a test strip which one of the participants would read and confirm that it was in sync. The gun allowed us to emboss the braille lettering on the trophies at the event.
We also used it to mark the top front of the door key cards for the hotel that the participants were staying at.
Mike Berger
From: ARAMember [#28]
21 Feb 2005
To: trophyman (MIKEBERGER) [#27] 22 Feb 2005
I'm bettin' that's the one!
Thanks for the info. I'll update the thread as needed for others.
Justin
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