| All of us know the importance of printers. We all use | | | | business relationship with a client and even with a |
| them to produce hard copies of our needed | | | | prospect. These printers make it possible for those |
| documents. For example, we use printers to produce | | | | marketers. |
| legal documents that we shall have notarized at the | | | | In short, everyone can use printers--everyone, that is, |
| local notary public. We use printers to produce copies | | | | unless you have something that hinders your |
| of our white papers for school. Yet another use for | | | | effectiveness. With that in mind, how can one make |
| them is to print out application letters and resumes that | | | | printers accessible to the physically impaired? |
| will be used when one is applying for work. | | | | Who Are the Physically Impaired? |
| The use of printers also goes beyond personal. They | | | | First off, the ones with the greatest physical handicap |
| are also useful for business. There are some people | | | | to using the printers are the blind. The deaf can use |
| who cannot afford printers and use an Internet | | | | the computer to type and to print. You can't dictate |
| café's printer in order to have their important | | | | documents to them, but you can write a draft that |
| documents printed. That is just the most common use | | | | they can type up and print. People confined to |
| of printer for businesses. There are other uses as well. | | | | wheelchairs, obviously, still have use of their hand and |
| One such use is digital photo printing. Digital cameras | | | | can still type and print. |
| are on the rise nowadays. Because of that, there also | | | | The blind, however, cannot see. So how can you |
| arises a need for professional printing with these | | | | make computers and printers accessible to the blind? |
| devices in mind. The use of darkrooms to process | | | | The Braille System |
| films and negatives are almost gone. Instead, they are | | | | The answer is to provide printers and computer |
| now replaced by digital photo printers that are capable | | | | keyboards that make use of the Braille printing system. |
| of reading pictures from directly the camera through | | | | This is a touch-based mechanism used by the blind in |
| USB connection or through the memory card. These | | | | order to read documents. Instead of letters, the |
| printers are also capable of connecting to a mobile | | | | document will feature a series of dots that only the |
| phone through Bluetooth or infrared. This way, the | | | | blind will be able to understand. They "read" documents |
| pictures can be transferred and printed. | | | | by touching the dots, a certain configuration of each |
| Another use for printers in businesses is through | | | | representing a specific symbol or ASCII character. The |
| variable data printing, arguably the most important use | | | | Braille system, fortunately, has already been used in |
| it has for business. The variable data printers allow a | | | | some customized printers that spew out Braille |
| business to produce customized marketing materials | | | | symbols that the blind can use. Some computer |
| that can help make the correspondence with the client | | | | keyboards also make use of Braille symbols in the |
| intimate and personal, something that marketers will | | | | keys instead of or together with the ASCII symbols. |
| recognize as a very useful tool for building a good | | | | |
