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Braille Printer Comparison Chart

Braille Printer Comparison Chart

Braille Printers NanoPac will be pleased to help you select the best Braille printer for your needs.  Braille printers, (Braille Embossers), work best with Braille translation software such as Duxbury. Click on one of the Brailler links below for more information:...

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Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetic Retinopathy: Although diabetes does not necessarily lead to diabetic retinopathy, people with the diabetic retinopathy may experience a condition in which their diabetes causes blood vessels that feed the retina of the eye to break. The resulting damage may...

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Glaucoma

Glaucoma: Glaucoma is a serious eye disease caused by a build-up of pressure in the eye that damages the optic nerve which transmits impulses to the brain that create sight. Glaucoma affects side vision causing the edges of the visual field to fade, although glaucoma...

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Retinitis Pigmentosa

Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP): Retinitis Pigmentosa is actually a group of inherited diseases that affect the retina of the eye causing a degeneration of photoreceptor cells. These cells are what capture light enabling us to see. When these cells degenerate, patients...

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Cataracts

Cataracts: Cataracts are a clouding of the eye's lens that causes blurriness and loss of vision. The word cataract literally means waterfall and when a cataract is severe it's like trying to see through a waterfall. Cataracts occur when the protein that makes up the...

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Macular Degeneration

Macular Degeneration  or Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Macular degeneration or age related macular degeneration is a degenerative disease of the retina that causes progressive loss of vision in the center of the eye. There are two types of age-related macular...

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clearview Magnifier

ClearView C HD One

Overview The new Optelec ClearView C One is a modern desktop video magnifier that is designed to improve your reading experience. C-ing without limitations When we started to develop this desktop video magnifier, we wanted to eliminate all of the difficulties users...
Pebble HD handheld video magnifier reading Pill bottles

Pebble HD

  Pebble HD Hand Held Magnifier The Only HD Hand Held Magnifier You'll Ever Need! HD • Lightweight • Portable Pebble HD boasts a new HD camera providing a crisp, clear, colorful, high definition picture. A new ergonomic lightweight compact design makes it the...
Image of a computer screen with the OpenBook logo on it with the software box sitting to the left of the monitor.

OpenBook

OpenBook scanning and reading system instantly converts printed materials to speech or large print output.

image of the coast camera on a stick by itself with no background

CoaSt (Camera-on-a-Stick)

CoaSt is a small, lightweight camera, complete with a tripod (and clamp) mount that can extend to view from greater heights.

Kurzweil 1000 Box

Kurzweil 1000

Kurzweil 1000 is an advanced reading tool for people who are blind or severely visually impaired. It works on a personal computer in conjunction with a flatbed scanner and synthetic speech to convert the printed word into speech.

Viewplus Emprint SpotDots. one shown in red, one shown in white

ViewPlus Emprint Spotdot

Emprint SpotDot is the world’s only Braille and color ink embosser - now made faster! Twice as fast as the first Emprint™ model - now 50 CPS! New easy-to-use operator panel with tactile buttons Choice of case colors - fire or ice (red or white) Uses the same paper and...
front view image of the BrailleTrac Braille Embosser

BrailleTrac 120

Braille Trac 120 – Leading Braille & Tactile Graphics Embosser

Image of the PEARL scan and read camera plugged into a HP Laptop, scanning a textbook with the words on the screen

PEARL

The PEARL, combined with JAWS, Fusion, or OpenBook scanning and reading software, brings blind and low vision users instant portable access to printed material with an array of human-sounding voices.

ViewPlus EmBraille Braille Printer

ViewPlus EmBraille

The VP EmBraille is the most affordable embosser in the world. Compact and highly portable with easy to use tractor fed paper, the VP EmBraille is the perfect choice for the classroom, busy professional, or at home. 25 characters per second High-Quality single sided...
Sample Output from Duxbury with inline print

Duxbury Braille Translator

Duxbury Braille Translator is used by virtually all of the world’s leading braille publishers. No one supports more languages than Duxbury Systems. DBT supports over 180 languages in either uncontracted or contracted (when such rules exist) braille. The software can product contracted and uncontracted literary, mathematics, and technical braille.