[nfbcs] braille blazer thoughts

[Mike Freeman]

Rick:

The BrailleBlazer was a very fine relatively-low-cost braille printer for
its time. It takes, of course, either a parallel or serial port, i.e., it
does not have a native USB connection so you'd need a converter that takes
USB data to a form the Blazer can accept.

The drawback to the BrailleBlazer is that it only takes 8.5-by-11-inch
paper, not the 11-by-11.5-inch paper that the VersaPoint can handle.

But the Blazer is light-weight and easily carried. Additionally, it has its
own internal speech synthesizer and keypad to manipulate its settings; in a
pinch, it can be used for a speech synthesizer if one drives it with a
serial port or USB-to-serial converter; you'd set JAWS or WE to Braille 'N
Speak as the external synth to use the Blazer in this fashion.

Mike Freeman


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of richard watson
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 7:01 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List; duxuser
Subject: [nfbcs] braille blazer thoughts

Good morning everyone,
I am looking at a braille blazer on ebay. What do folks think of this
printer?
My versapoint is currently out being repaired (hoping this is possible)
thanks
rick

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