TP3

Tactile Printer One (TP3) is a cost-effective glue printer designed in the spirit of do-it-yourself (DIY), so as to enable the family and assistants of the blind piece its wooden pal components together at home. It comes with a 5 ml print volume; requires minimalistic...

TP4

Tactile Printer One (TP4) is a cost-effective glue printer designed in the spirit of do-it-yourself (DIY), so as to enable the family and assistants of the blind piece its wooden pal components together at home. It comes with a 5 ml print volume; requires minimalistic...

TP2

Tactile Printer One (TP1) is a cost-effective glue printer designed in the spirit of do-it-yourself (DIY), so as to enable the family and assistants of the blind piece its wooden pal components together at home. It comes with a 5 ml print volume; requires minimalistic...

TP1

Tactile Printer One (TP1) is a cost-effective glue printer designed in the spirit of do-it-yourself (DIY), so as to enable the family and assistants of the blind piece its wooden pal components together at home. It comes with a 5 ml print volume; requires minimalistic aid from experts, it has a print and charge technology that prints on A4 type paper, exactly what graphic image you need, when you need it.

DIY open source PVA glue embosser

ABOUT US

At Tactile Printer One we offer a practical, real-life solution that is meant to facilitate the visually impaired to make better sense of the world they live in.

Tactile Printer One is an innovative project with DIY blueprints for embossing machine that can be built anywhere. Glue-embossed graphics can be created at great price & quality, with materials that can be bought from the nearest to you DIY store.

This is a do-it-yourself project meant to enable teachers, parents, or the person near the visually impaired to piece together one of the four distinct printing machines, that help the visually impaired print glue-embossed graphics, in a cost-effective manner.

OUR EXPERIENCE

The Urban Development Association (ADU) is a Romanian NGO that has been activating for 14 years to empower the blind community through access to educational resources that enables them to be easily integrated into today’s society.

1824 – Louis Braille – text studying independence
2020 – Tactile Images – tactile graphics studying independence

DOWNLOAD & BUILD

SLIGHTEST

– Made of debited wood
– PAL
– A4
– Syringe and PVA glue

Model TP1

CHEAPEST

– Made of PAL
– A3
– Syringe and PVA glue
– High capacity

Model TP2

LOW-NOISE

– Aluminum & 3D printed parts
– A4
– Syringe and wood glue

Model TP3

BIGGEST

– Very strong
– Aluminum
– A4
– Syringe and wood glue

Model TP4

Learn to emboss with adhesive through manual techniques to create embossed drawings, diagrams or maps. You need simple ingredients like a syringe, flour and a little bit of skill.

Learn to emboss

Here is our online library full of swell paper designs – 800 items. Feel free to download the tactile graphics you need for a swell paper machine, or adapt them to glue technic.

Explore the library