The tiger 1000 is a new generation computer printer which embosses tactile text and graphics onto standard Braille paper and plastic media. In addition to printing standard Braille (with a large selection of Braille tables), it can print any arbitrary combination of text and graphics from standard computer applications.

Technical Specifications:

• Resolution: 20 dots per inch
• Speed: 20 Braille character cells per second, or up to 3 minutes per page depending on the complexity of the graphics
• Print type: single sided; standard Braille, tactile graphical representations, DotsPlus Braille and combination of the above with a single printing pass
• Print media: continuous tractor feed Braille paper or plastic foil
• Interface: parallel Centronics
• Buffers: 128 kB buffer
• Controls: numerical keypad with LCD display for manual access of printer functions
• Braille tables: up to 10 Braille tables stored in EPROM - user-selectable choice of American Computer Braille code, DIN (German) Braille code, GS or a user definable representation
• Software: Windows95/NT printer driver - prints text (Braille) and graphics directly from standard Windows95/NT applications (MS Word, Powerpoint, Mathematica, CorelDraw and others

For more information please contact:

• Peter Langner, Tel.: (541) 737 1715, FAX: (541) 737 1683
• Prof. John Gardner, Tel.: (541) 737 3278, FAX: (541) 737 1683
• Science Access Project
  at Oregon State University
  Department of Physics
  301 Weniger Hall
  Corvallis, OR 97331-6507
  USA