<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Edward (and list)</div><div><br></div><div>My group has a couple...though we primarily use the first two.<br></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://viewplus.com/product/vp-elite/">ViewPlus Elite</a> - Our work horse for primarily doing tactile graphics. It replaced our then very aged and starting to fail <a href="https://viewplus.com/product/vp-premier/">ViewPlus Premier</a>, the slower cousin of the Elite. (Just to be clear, we were very happy with the Premier and was comfortable and glad we were able to replace it with a newer and faster version.)</li><li><a href="https://www.indexbraille.com/en-us/braille-embossers">Index Basic-D v5</a> - Our other work horse for primarily embossing text (and every once in a while simple figures). Pretty sturdy given abuse/volume we put it through like the v3 that we replaced. Though ours seems to have a strange issue with interpoint & box lines we're still trying to figure out...but that's a different and long story</li><li><a href="https://viewplus.com/product/vp-delta-2/">ViewPlus Delta</a> - We bought this fella in between our Premier dying and were hopeful it could be a nice hybrid between our (then) ViewPlus Premier in how we did our tactile graphics and also the Braille from our Index Basic-D. Didn't quite fit our use case so we don't fire it up as often. Biggest complaint I have is the sheet feed mechanism gives us a lot of trouble. Supposedly newer editions fixed it...so I'm told by the vendor.</li><li>Bonus: <a href="https://mountbattenbrailler.com/mountbatten/">Harpo Mountbatten</a> - We have an older version. Not really for volume embossing but we acquired this and have occasionally used it to print once in a while special projects or whatnot. Handy since prior to our Delta, all our embossing is via continuous feed and this one did sheets.<br></li></ul></div><div>So if the budget allows and your need requires it, we've been very happy with our ViewPlus Elite handling the tactile graphics while leaving the text embossing to our Index Basic-D.</div><div><br></div><div>The ViewPlus Elite gives more of a pyramid dots...so the Braille dots aren't as pronounced but helps aid in complex/finer detail on tactile graphics. The Index Basic-D handles the volume and gives very good firm Braille dots.</div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to ask me on or off list if you want me to elaborate anything in more detail.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck on your hunt~!<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Paul<br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 11:35 AM Edward Martinez <<a href="mailto:emartin5@broward.edu">emartin5@broward.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6658888470836320844">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been tasked with purchasing a new Braille printer for my college but before I started to conduct my own research I was curious if there were any recommendation, either positive or negative? I would love to get some insight to what
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