[Athen] Portable printers

[Wink Harner]

Hi Debee,

Here's a link of several different portable printers to take a look at. The
Canon Pixma i110 appears to have the best rating overall. I use Canon
printers in my alt-text production so have an appreciation for the
durability and quality of the product line. However, there are more on this
list of 6. Most of them are "portable" enough for a student to be able to
carry around with them.

https://www.lifewire.com/top-mobile-printers-2377818

Take a look and perhaps you'll find a suitable printer for your student(s)'
needs.

Wink
Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com
480-984-0034

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 9:04 AM Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>
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> I have never been asked this question, which surprises me.

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> But this quarter we have more visually impaired students than we’ve had in

> a while. They have either an iPAD, a Braille Note-taker or a laptop with a

> magnification solution.  This is what they used in high school to prepare

> assignments, but then they went over to their special ed room to print

> those up.

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> I happen to know many of these classes have in-class assignments, and one

> item I thought I’d start investigating are portable printers that a BVI

> student could easily carry around.

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> When I took gseveral CIS classes in the middle ‘80s, I carried a Diconix

> portable printer everywhere and used it to print work right in class. It

> ran on batteries and had some ink issues but it worked well enough to get

> an assignment done using in those days WordPerfect and MS-DOS.

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> Though I’ve seen battery-operated printers in the stores, they are mostly

> for photos. Does anyone know about printers which print Word documents

> someone could actually use on the go?

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> --Debee

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