Re: Braille printing for conferences

[Eitan Isaacson <eitan monotonous org>]

Keeping Ben in the loop. 

Ben mentioned it is worth checking if we could pre-print some graphics on the braille material so it will be visually pleasing as well. The amount of space available on a page depends on the contents, since we will be transcribing it to grade 2, so there is no constant ratio. I'll be happy to use liblouis to do some quick transcriptions and see where we are with space. But the rule of thumb should be about half a page of print text.

Cheers,
 Eitan.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:

That's awesome!

What should we keep in mind? No images? Double the space (one page turns into one)?

Stormy

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Eitan Isaacson <eitan monotonous org> wrote:

Hi Folks.

Hope the hackfest is a blast.

Ben Konrath volunteered University of Toronto's braille embosser for publishing braille marketing material for GNOME. This is great news! The cost of operation is the paper which I imagine needs to be of a special weight and type. It's CAD$ 100 for 1000 letter-sized sheets. On average a sheet of braille contains about half the text of a sheet of print. Their embosser has an option of double-sided embossing, which is cool.

Anyway, I think one run of 1000 sheets would be an adequate number for any outreach needs we would have for blind folks at events. Of course I have CSUN in mind, but I did the GNOME booth at SCALE a few years back with Brad Taylor, and we had at least one blind visitor. So some sheets in out event boxes would be beneficial.

When you guys sit down to plan marketing handouts, please think of this.

Cheers,
  Eitan.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ben Konrath <ben bagu org>
Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Braille printing for conferences
To: Eitan Isaacson <eitan monotonous org>


Ok, I just got the quote. It's about CAD$ 100 for 1000 sheets of 8 1/2
x 11 with all the taxes.

Our on staff OT said that 1 written page normally translates to 2
Braille pages. We have a Braille embosser that can do double sided but
it needs to be configured. If we end up needing a two page Braille
document, our IT guy will get it working. If we just need one sided
printing that's working now.

Cheers, Ben

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ben Konrath <ben bagu org> wrote:
> I'm glad I can help out. That $80 was just a price I got from website.
> I've submitted an official quote to the supplier here in Toronto for a
> 1000 sheet bundle. I'll let you know when I here back from them.
>
> Cheers, Ben
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Eitan Isaacson <eitan monotonous org> wrote:
>> Excellent! Still trying to figure out how to get funding/reimbusrment from
>> gnome.org, but $80 seems cheap for 1500 sheets, especially since we might be
>> able to emboss two flyers on one sheet, we will only know that after
>> transcribing.
>> I'll ping the GNOME marketing team about that, i bet they have money...
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ben Konrath <ben bagu org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Ben Konrath <ben bagu org>
>>> Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM
>>> Subject: Braille printing for conferences
>>> To: eitan ascender com
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Eitan,
>>>
>>> If I recall correctly, you were trying to find a way to do cheap
>>> Braille printing. I poked around and we have a  Braille printer here
>>> at the University we could use for printing handouts for various
>>> conferences. The main issue for us is cost of paper - I think a spool
>>> of 1500 sheets is around $80 with shipping and being a grant funded
>>> organization it's hard to cough up money for things. I have no problem
>>> printing and shipping whatever handouts you want for conferences if we
>>> can find a way to pay for the paper. Is this something you're
>>> interested in?
>>>
>>> Ben
>>
>>
>

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