Most modern manufacturing is fantastically economic today but is only so because of the way they now operate. Tooling a factory to produce a product costs time but also materials and expertise, test runs all of which may tie it up for some time or at least take up significant resources within a factory. Therefore typically factories are not usually interested in small runs of things after which they have to stop, re-tools and re-set even assuming there are no problems it is still dead and unproductive time. Therefore what happens at least in terms of hardware is that you have to pay a higher unit price just to get it produced or you use greater amounts of human labour where it is possible. Most Braille displays are at least partly hand-made especially where it comes to the Braille cells themselves. Regards. Tristram Llewellyn Sight and Sound Technology Technical Support www.sightandsound.co.uk Mail: Tristram: tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Technical: Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx General - info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: Support line: 0845 634 7979 Sight and Sound Technology Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, with company number 1408275. Sight and Sound Technology Welton House North Wing Summerhouse Road Moulton Park Northampton NN3 6WD VAT Number - GB 860 2121 66. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq