Index Braille launches printer for use by both visually impaired and sighted people.
The newly released Braille Box printer, reports Financial Times, has been released by Swedish printer manufacturer Index Braille and is designed for use in offices and libraries to enable visually impaired users to print more efficiently.
The printer is designed to assist users through “tactile and visual cues”, including its asymmetrical shape designed by SkapaDesign Studio and its two “active” sides where paper is loaded and where the paper emerges, which are both made of dark laminated glass, contrasting with the white aluminium “inactive” sides.
Users are also guided by speech, available in 30 languages, as well as instructions in Braille and conventional buttons.
While Index Braille’s previous printer model reportedly sold between six and 15 units per year for $30,000 (€23,229) each, the company claims that The Braille Box printer will cost half the price, and that it has already sold 83 units since its launch in 3Q11.
The Recycler reported in September that Lexmark launched two accessibility solutions – the Accessibility Speech Solution and the Lexmark Accessibility Solution for MFPs, to improve printing for visually impaired customers.