[Athen] Portable printers

[Wink Harner]

Nah, the technology's come a LONG way!

Maybe one of these would work for what your student(s) need(s).

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 2:08 PM Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>
wrote:


> Very helpful. I thought all those baby printers would only do 4 X 6

> photos.

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Wink Harner

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Portable printers

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> Hi Debee,

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> 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.

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

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> Take a look and perhaps you'll find a suitable printer for your

> student(s)' needs.

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> Wink

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> Wink Harner

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> Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production

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> The Foreign Type

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> Portland OR

> foreigntype at gmail.com

> 480-984-0034

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> This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive

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> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 9:04 AM Deborah Armstrong <

> armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu> wrote:

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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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