As part of its Founder’s Day celebrations, the Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) inaugurated a new Braille printer on their campus at Sundararajanpatti here on Saturday.
The Braillo 650 W Braille printer, sponsored by the State Bank of India DFHI, is one that is more technologically advanced than the existing printers at the Braille press on the campus.
“The Braillo 650 W printer is manufactured in Norway and is the most advanced Braille printing machine in the world. In the country, there is only one other printer of this grade in Dehradun,” said Abdul Raheem, Vice President of the IAB.
At a cost of Rs.85 lakh, the printer can print 650 Braille characters in a second. “Not only will the time involved in printing be minimised, the paper will now just cost 80 paise, bringing down the cost of the book by half for the students,” he explained.