Disability Resource Center (DRC)
Five Easy Steps for Printing Braille Diagrams
In addition to your office computer, printer
and copier, you will need tactile image paper and a thermal enhancer.
The Disability Resource Center does not sell these items, but companies that do are listed
on our Vendors page.
1. Purchase a TAEVIS Diagram CD to acquire the diagrams as PDF files. |
2. View the diagram in Adobe Acrobat Reader and print it on regular paper, using your office printer. Do not attempt to use thermal image paper in a laserjet printer. The image will raise inside the printer and jam the mechanism. |
| 3. Photocopy the print drawing onto the tactile image paper. |
| 4. Pass the image paper through the thermal enhancer. This will create the raised image. (At the Disability Resource Center we refer to this as "toasting".) |
| 5. The image is now ready to be used by a braille reader. |