New RNIB braille printers given affectionate names

The brand new Braillo 650 SF2 machines have been lately put in on the charity’s Gateshead website. They’ll streamline the method of manufacturing texts within the braille format for blind folks, permitting RNIB to develop its braille assortment by an additional 20 titles a month.

RNIB mentioned the acquisition of the brand new package was made potential due to the assistance of gamers of Individuals’s Postcode Lottery, which helps the charity by way of funds awarded by Postcode Care Belief.

The sight loss charity ran a contest by way of its social media channels for supporters to counsel names to offer the brand new gadgets. A shortlist was compiled, and employees then voted for his or her favourites.

RNIB chief working officer Mari Jones mentioned: “We’re grateful to everybody who took time to counsel names and vote for his or her favorite and we couldn’t be happier with the alternatives and welcome ‘Invoice Brailey’ and ‘Dottie’ to our Gateshead website.

“Our new braille printers can produce 650 braille characters a second and 1,950 pages an hour. The machines supply a whole braille manufacturing course of, you’ll be able to ship a file and decide up a e-book in subsequent to no time, so our braille clients can get the textual content within the format they want quicker.” 

Gamers of Individuals’s Postcode Lottery have raised greater than £8.3m to help RNIB’s work previously six years.

2024 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the start of Louis Braille, who invented the braille system which makes use of combos of raised dots to signify letters and numbers.