I’m not rubbishing the Pen Friend. It is shaped like a giant pen and reasonably
easy to use. But it does mean it always has to be at hand when you want to
identify a file, a CD, a cooking ingredient etc., rather than just running your
fingers over a label there and then.
It is just somewhat bemusing that there is a whole of different labels for the
Pen Friend but only one choice, these large Perkins-sized sheets, for the
braille user.
Alison
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Oh, totally agree, Alison. It is very irritating. Personally, I’d much rather
braille things than use something like a penfriend. Not that I have seen a
penfriend.
Jo
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I guess this is what I will have to do, Jo. I’m just irritated that there is so
little choice.
Alison
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Alison
I use the sheets of plastic. Perhaps if you don’t like cutting you could order
the sheets and get someone to cut them into the size you like. I know it is a
bit of a pain but at least you would have a load of cut lables.
Jo
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I may have to resort to ths, but like someone else has said, I’m not very
clever at cutting straight.
Alison
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Hi,
For many years I've used a rotary blade paper/photo trimmer to produce custom
size labels, using the self adhesive Perkins size sheets sold by RNIB.
One advantage of using this method enables multiple labels to be Braille at
once, and then cut exactly to the required size.
Labels may be cut even thinner than Dymo tape, allowing them to be easily
placed on the spine of a CD case.
I think the trimmers can be purchased from Amazon ETC for around £30 or so.
Hth,
Tim.
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They are George, but sometimes the braille is quite faint and not particularly
easy to read.
Alison
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Again, I should add that brailleable paper labels are also used in the
pharmaceutical industry where the ink-print first and emboss afterwards. The
labels are naturally of a thicker grade of paper.
George
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Paper labels are useless for any long term labelling though, aren’t they, Anna?
When I was working, all my files were labelled and I also kept a card index
system with basic contact information which I used the foil CD labels for –
they were just the right size. And, because they were foil, if I had to contact
someone months or even years after the card was created, the braille was still
nice and sharp to read. A paper label would have been much less likely to
survive.
Alison
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The only solution I can find is buying paper labels from a stationers, they
don’t last like the plastic ones did then. Annabel
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I use the labels for all sorts of things, and can’t believe that this is the
only option left. I’ll see what they look like when they come but if it means I
have to cut down a Perkins-sized sheet to size every time I want a label, it
will be a real faff and very wasteful too.
Alison
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I stopped selling them awhile ago Alison, I was very disgusted about it also
as are used to so many things. Annabel.
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I’m flabberghasted!
I rang RNIB this afternoon to order cd-sized self-adhesive labels, as I have
run out.
Not only don’t they sell these anymore, but they also don’t sell virtually any
others either. for example the long strips or the sheet of 4 or 6 labels. The
only self-adhesive labels they now sell are a Perkins-sized sheet.
I label my CDs, my herbs and a myriad of other things. Am I really going to
have to cut bits off Perkins-sized sheets in future?
Alison
