A Braille embosser is a printer, necessarily an impact printer, that renders text as Braille. Utilizing special translation software, a print document can be embossed with relative ease, making Braille production much more efficient and cost-effective. This does not cite its references or sources. ... Braille code where the word (, French for first) can be read. ... A Braille Translator is a piece of software that allows a printed document to be translated in to Braille and sent to a Braille Embosser which produces a hardcopy Braille version of the original document. ...

Blind users tend to call other printers ink printers, to distinguish them from their Braille counterparts. This is often the case regardless of the type of printer being discussed.

As with ink printers, embossers come in all shapes and sizes, and are used by everyone from individual computer users to large corporations that produce books, magazines, and other widely distributed publications, requiring fast, high-volume embossing capabilities. Thus, an embosser can cost roughly anywhere from US$2,000 to $80,000, depending on the user's needs. A BlueGene supercomputer cabinet. ...

See also

• Braille ASCII
• Perkins Brailler

Braille ASCII (or more formally The North American Braille ASCII Code) is a subset of the ASCII character set which uses 64 of the printable ASCII characters to represent all possible dot combinations in six-dot Braille. ... // The Perkins Brailler The Perkins Brailler is a simple, inexpensive machine used to write braille. ...

References

This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is an online, searchable encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects. ... GNU logo (similar in appearance to a gnu) The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. ...