Abstract: A printing process combining conventional and Braille printing using an offset-type printing machine. The process involves the following operations: putting on a page the text and/or images that are to be printed in a conventional manner and putting on a page the text and/or images that are to be Braille printed; printing one photolyte for every page that is to be printed in a conventional manner and one for every page that is to be Braille printed, preparing a printing plate by photolyte, the plate having a support side and a printing side containing the motif corresponding to the one on the photolyte, fixing the Braille printing plate by its support side to the counter-pressure cylinder in one of the printing stations, fixing the conventional printing plates by its support face to the plate cylinder in the other printing stations and printing the sheets to be printed that have gone one by one through the rubber cylinders and the counter-pressure cylinders.

Abstract: A marking press device having a pair of type arms that face each other to interpose a workpiece to be marked therebetween, a type fixed on each of said type arms for making a mark thereof, a circular type assembling member around which a plurality of said type arms are attached radially, a device for rotatably supporting said type assembling member around a rotary shaft and for pressing a selected type from said type assembling member onto said workpiece, a driver for rotating said type assembling member, a ribbon guiding mechanism that guides an inked ribbon for coloring marked characters, a ribbon supplying spool for supplying said inked ribbon, a ribbon winding spool for winding said inked ribbon, a ribbon frame to which said ribbon guiding mechanism, said ribbon supplying spool and said ribbon winding spool are mounted, and ribbon frame turning device for rotatably supporting said ribbon frame and turning said ribbon frame to a horizontal position above said type arms when said inked ribbon is replaced.

Abstract: A marking press device having a pair of type arms that face each other to interpose a workpiece to be marked therebetween, a type fixed on each of said type arms for making a mark thereof, a circular type assembling member around which a plurality of said type arms are attached radially, a device for rotatably supporting said type assembling member around a rotary shaft and for pressing a selected type from said type assembling member onto said workpiece, a driver for rotating said type assembling member, a ribbon guiding mechanism that guides an inked ribbon for coloring marked characters, a ribbon supplying spool for supplying said inked ribbon, a ribbon winding spool for winding said inked ribbon, a ribbon frame to which said ribbon guiding mechanism, said ribbon supplying spool and said ribbon winding spool are mounted, and ribbon frame turning device for rotatably supporting said ribbon frame and turning said ribbon frame to a horizontal position above said type arms when said inked ribbon is replaced.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information input/output device for visually impaired users whereby the visually impaired users can easily obtain information for the operation and perform the operation without confusion. This device comprise a braille output unit having a plurality of projectable dotted portions and which enables output of a plurality of braille patterns by controlling the projection of the dotted portions, and a recognition means which recognizes that an operation concerning the braille patterns output by the braille output unit is input when the braille output unit is pushed within a predetermined period of time after the braille patterns are output by the braille output unit. When the user inputs an operation concerning the braille patterns, the user pushes the braille unit in which the braille patterns are output.

Abstract: A Braille printer comprises a frame on which a gauze is stretched, and a sheet which is adhered to the gauze and in which a Braille pattern is formed, wherein Brailles are printed by coating printing ink onto the sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for producing elevations which can be detected in a tactile manner on a flat recording medium, with the following components: at least one stamp with several printing areas which are provided with one or several elevations; at least one printing plate with several recesses; a drive device to move the stamp in a recording direction along the recording medium; an adjusting device to adjust the stamp so as to bring a printing area to a printing position in which the elevations of the respective printing area are opposite of the recesses of the printing plate and a printing device to press the stamp against the printing plate in order to form one or several recesses on the interposed recording medium which correspond to elevations on the opposite side.

Abstract: A printer head for a Braille printer includes a housing formed with first and second series of opposing openings. First devices adapted to receive Braille paper to be taken up in the housing and second devices arranged in the housing to apply raised dots onto the paper are accommodated in the first and second series of openings formed in the housing. The housing includes a base section designed as one piece with a channel-shaped space where the devices that apply the raised dots onto the Braille paper are accommodated in the first and second series of opposing openings. The first and second series of opposing openings in the one piece base section are formed in a same mounting so as to be substantially coaxially aligned as a mutual pair, whereby the devices are arranged mutually opposite to each other in the channel-shaped space at a predetermined distance from one another with centers of axes aligned.