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Blind embossed stationery. Blind embossing does not include the use of ink or foil to highlight the embossed area. The change in the dimensional appearance of the material is the only noticeable difference resulting from the embossing. The blind embossing process provides a clean and distinctive or subtle image on paper stock.
A braille embosser showing some pages created on it. A braille embosser is an impact printer that renders text as tactile braille cells. Using braille translation software, a document or digital text can be embossed with relative ease.
A blind stamp ('blind' meaning uncoloured) is an image, design or lettering on an art print or book formed by creating a depression in the paper or other material. It is the opposite of embossing which refers to a design created by raising the paper above the surrounding area.
The American Printing House for the Blind was designated as the official source of educational texts and aids for legally blind students throughout the country—a mandate that continues to the present. Federal funding created new demands for embossed books and the Printing House soon outgrew its rooms at the Kentucky School for the Blind.
The slate and stylus are tools used by blind people to write text that they can read without assistance. [1] [2] Invented by Charles Barbier as the tool for writing letters that could be read by touch, [3] the slate and stylus allow for a quick, easy, convenient and constant method of making embossed printing for Braille character encoding.
Interpoint refers to braille printing that is offset, so that the paper can be embossed on both sides, with the dots on one side appearing between the divots that form the dots on the other. Using a computer or other electronic device, Braille may be produced with a braille embosser (printer) or a refreshable braille display (screen).