[nobe-l] [reem-l] OT: Braille embossers, question for Heather

[Heather Field]

Hello Kathy,
Yes. The everest can braille on regular, lighter weight, as well as heavier 
braille papers. You can also adjust margins to accommodate letter size or 
the larger braille paper. I haven't bothered with the lighter paper myself 
but I know people do. They do exactly what your talking about. they get the 
very high quality printer paper for about ten or twelve dollars a rhyme and 
they use that paper for consumable, use today throw away tonight projects. 
You can alter the hammer rate to accommodate various thicknesses of paper. 
It's quite simple if you follow the manual.
Regards,
Heather


-----Original Message----- 
From: Kathy Nimmer
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:37 PM
To: National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] OT: Braille embossers, question for Heather

Heather,
  The Everest can braille on any thickness of paper then? So, I could use 
the heavier braille paper or thinner braille paper or for something 
nonpermanent just copy paper? This intrigues me because for some things that 
I would just want to have at my  fingertips for a day at school, I wouldn't 
have to waste good paper. But, there are things I would want to keep longer, 
so I need to be sure it can handle a range of paper thicknesses. Thanks, and 
thanks to everyone for the input. I feel rather like Cinderella, getting to 
go  to a ball I never anticipated being invited to attend!!

> From: missheather at comcast.net
> To: nobe-l at nfbnet.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:37:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: [nobe-l] OT: Braille embossers
>
> Hello Kathy,
>
> Great news about your embosser. You'll wonder how you lived without it 
> once
> you get it.
>
> A major factor to consider is whether or not you are prepared to sit 
> around
> for ages ripping pages apart, and ripping off the tractor feed lines from
> the edges of pages once each document is embossed. Obviously, this 
> horrible
> means of stabilising printer paper went out with the dot matrix printers,
> years ago. And, the office workers of the world rejoiced. However, it's
> still very much alive and well in the blindness field, thanks to the 
> design
> of most braille embossers.
>
> If, like me, you have better things to do with your time than wrestle with
> an antiquated form of printer paper, then your choices of embossers are 
> very
> limited. Fortunately, I have found the Everest to be a great embosser.
> Because it was ground breaking technology when it first came out in the 
> late
> nineties, it had some problems in the first model. However, these issues 
> are
> long ago resolved though the reputation took a while to recover. So, 
> ignore
> anyone who tells you that the Everest embosser has problems due to design.
> It absolutely doesn't. It's also quiet when in it's cabinet. It's
> double-sided and easily adjusts to different paper sizes. It takes regular
> braille paper and is a single sheet feed embosser. I'm not sure if the 
> Index
> embosser that Denise mentioned has single sheet feed. It's certainly made 
> by
> the same company. Perhaps you might start by visiting the Index embossers
> website and reading up on the various models.
>
> Another advantage of the embossers which don't use tractor feed paper is
> that they will also braille/emboss paper which you can buy inexpensively
> from your local office supplies store like Office Depot or Staples. This
> results in a really big saving in paper costs.
>
> So, after that long preamble, I'd encourage you to look into a single 
> sheet
> feed embosser. As a side note, I agree with Mike that the Juliet is a
> fabulous, simple to use, heavy duty embosser and the price is very
> competitive as well. I had one but the tractor feed drove me absolutely
> crazy so our time together was short and tumultuous and not very sweet.
>
> Enjoy the search and please let us know what you finally choose and why.
>
> Warmest regards,
> Heather
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Kathy Nimmer
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:32 PM Subject: [nobe-l] OT: Braille 
> embossers
>
> Hello,
>   I have the awesome possibility of purchasing a braille embosser for my 
> own
> use, with funds that are being gifted to me unexpectetly. This would grant
> me the ability to have braille copies of materials I created myself and
> teach in class, not to mention the poems and stories and articles I teach
> from our lit anthology. Anyway, it has bee about twentyy years since I
> thought about a braille embosser, largely because of the price. Does 
> anyone
> haveany insights on good versus bbad embossers, features worth it or not,
> companies to consider or avoid, one sided versus two sided brailling? I'd
> love any opinions or leads. Thanks.
> Kathy
>
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