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Braille Box V4

Braille Box V4 high speed Braille embosser front side

Braille Box is a Braille printer for high volumes of production. It has the best sheet feeder yet including high speed and durability.

Braille Box V4 Braille printer glass corner

Braille Box is the first Braille printer to receive the acknowledged Red Dot award for best product design.

Output tray on Braille Box V4 Braille printer

Braille books are easy with Braille Box. The embosser automatically organizes in magazine format.

Braille Box V4 Braille embosser back corner

The technical corner is easy to locate and contains USB, network and serial ports inclusive of quiet ventilation.

Single-sheet fed, high-speed Braille printer with little noise level. Braille Box is a milestone on the production braille embosser market. At a very affordable price it gives the user a technically progressive Braille machine with stable paper handling and award winning design.

  • 300 characters/second - first affordable high speed braille embosser
  • Large sheet-feeder - holds up to 400 pages
  • Integrated Acoustic Hood gives low noise level
  • Newspaper format for A3 or 11x17 inch paper
  • Red Dot product design award 2011
  • Great Design Award (Swedish award) 2012
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A landmark in production embossers

Internationally renowned design winner

"How should a Braille printer be experienced? Braille Box is a masterpiece of industrial design; it is beautiful by touch, sound and observation by the eye. A thorough and consistent outcome to a difficult design challenge; inclusive with clarity and elegance, Braille Box creates both user experience and export success."

                                     -German Design Award 2013 Jury 

 

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This is Braille Box

Braille Box is suited for high volumes of Braille on cut-sheet paper. Its competitive award winning design and superb performance is groundbreaking. Braille Box prints at a rapid speed with little noise production. The printers innovative design makes it easy to maneuver. 

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Easy user interface

Throw away the manual; Braille Box will guide you through the embossing process. The logical user interface is both speech guided available in many languages and selectable from the front panel of the embosser. Several languages are available in print and Braille, giving the blind and sighted the same advantages. You will find the verbal interface available free of charge  in the download section of Index Braille's home page. 

Best price/performance

Braille Box is the first production Braille embosser to offer high quality performance at an affordable price. Higher consumer demands has allowed Index Braille to cut costs for each unit by large. With higher import volumes of tools and parts, Index is capable to sell Braille Box at a lower price. Therefore, Braille quality is able to reach the high standards made by our international users yet remain at an affordable price.

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No noise pollution

Braille Box has excellent Braille quality yet still able to produce very little noise in the process. When printing, Braille Box generates no more sound than a regular conversation; retaining an acceptable amount of noise production for an office environment. Low noise volume is possible because  of how the Braille embosser is designed; being completely sealed off,  muffling even the ventilation. 

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The best sheet feeder

Braille on cut-sheet paper is the future. It is inexpensive and hassle free compared to the more demanding and expensive fan-folded braille paper. The sheet feeder also makes it possible to print Braille on every available paper format and even thin foils in other materials. Index Braille is the only Braille producer to develop a flawless Braille printer for copy paper. The secret is the Braille optimized sheet feeder, a technical solution owned by Index Braille. 

 

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Interpoint Braille

High quality Braille on both sides of the paper, known as interpoint or double-sided braille, is an Index Braille trademark. Braille Box produces double-sided Braille that reaches the highest Braille reading demands. The dots are easy to read and do not wear by age. The reliable dot forming technology seen in Braille Box is better for your wallet as well as the environment.

Meaningful features

Braille Box V4 is loaded with useful features. It prints single and double-sided Braille, both horizontally and vertically, meanwhile producing sharp tactile graphics. The Braille printer easily embosses Braille books and magazines with automatic page organization. It has all ports needed including: network, USB and a service port, in addition to  drivers compatible for Windows and Mac. The self guiding speech interface is logical and easy to use. Braille Box V4 is equipped with an embedded  web interface, making it possible to maneuver your embosser via the internet.  

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technical specification

General

Price

14995 USD

Warranty

2 years

cps/1000 USD

20

Braille

Embossing speed cps

300 cps

Single-sided

Double-sided

Vertical printing (newspaper)

Braille font

2.2, 2.5, 3.2 mm

Tactile resolution

50 dpi

Forming method

Three embossing heads with 13 hammers in each

Paper

Tractor-fed

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Single sheet feeder

Paper roll

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Sheet feeder size

400 pages

Paper weight

120-180 g/m2 (80-110 lbs)

Paper width

8.2-11.7 in

Paper length

11-17 in

Paper formats

A3, 11x17", 11x11.5"

Measurements

Height

56 cm (22.05 in)

Width

72 cm (28.35 in)

Depth

90 cm (35.43 in)

Net volume

362.88 dm3 (12.81 ft3)

Net weight

65.2 kg (143.44 lbs)

Noise level

60 dB(A)

Noise level with acoustic protection

Communication

User interface

Braille and ink labelled panel with multilingual speech feedback

USB

Network

Serial port

-

Web

Firmware upgrade

Via internet always free of charge

LED feedback

Printer drivers

Windows 32/64

Electrical

Voltage

100-240 V AC

Power max

400 W

Power stand by

5 W

Eco power down

1.0 W

 

accessories

For Braille Box V4

Paper A4 160 gsm

Cut sheet A4 braille paper 160 gsm

For best results Everest uses this thicker quality copy paper. We deliver the paper when you need it - right from stock.

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Paper A3 160 gsm

Cut sheet A3 paper 160 gsm

Thicker copy paper suited for Braille books and magazines.

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Index Braille Stapler

Stapler for Braille books

Index Braille Stapler is developed for demanding braille book production. It suits A3 and 11x17 inch paper, but can be used with any Braille document.

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Manuals

Drivers

Mac OSX printer driver

Driver for Mac Operating system OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8. This is a raw-driver and not intended for use with e.g. TextEdit application.

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Firmware

Utilities

TeamViewer client software

Index Braille support now has the possibility to give you support with remote control of your copmputer. We are using Team Viewer to be able to give you on-hand support.

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IbPrint 6.3.8

IbPrint is a drag and drop icon for sending text, firmware updates, speech updates, brf (formattet braille files), pef-files(portable embosser format), esc sequences etc to an Index embosser.

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IndexPrint

IndexPrint is a drag and drop application for OS X to send preformatted braille documents (.brf, .brl or .txt) and firmware files (.ibe) to the V4 embosser. Tested on OS X version 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.

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Speech Tool V4 1.5.37

The Speech Tool V4 is used to make local speech feedback for V4 Index Embossers. It supports the models Basic-D V4, Everest-D V4, Braille Box V4 and Braille & Print.

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Braille Table Viewer 1.0.4

The Braille Table Viewer is used to inspect a braille table generated by Embosser Utility 5. The file extension for a braille table file is *.ebc.

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Utility Manuals

Development

Graphic bit map printing format V4 1.4.2 and higher

Preliminary description of the "floating page are printing". This method is implemented in firmware 1.4.2 and may be used for bit map tactile graphic embossing. The dot may be positioned within 0.01 mm and the recommended minimum distance between two dots is 1.5 mm.

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Service

Sysconfig file to increase power on embossing head motors

The power on the embossing head motors found in Braille Boxes delivered before the summer of 2012 ran quite low. The effect may result in vertical alignment issues between the embossing heads. This may be solved by sending the "config_braill_box.ibe" file to the embosser via IbPrint. After the file is transferred all setup parameters is set to factory default.

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Paper Guide Upgrade kit mounting instructions

The paper arms are now re-designed to avoid the risk of the paper getting stuck in the inner paper guide (arm) front hinge. This hardware improvement is implemented in all new Braille Boxes s/n 54320 and above.

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ADM doc

Marketing doc

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