Digitally controlled Braille jet printing

Project Information

BrailleJet

Grant agreement ID: 685347

DOI 10.3030/685347

Closed project

EC signature date 26 June 2015

Start date 1 June 2015

End date 31 October 2015

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Nanotechnologies

Total cost € 71 429,00

EU contribution € 50 000,00

Coordinated by

CENTRAL EUROPEAN RESEARCH CENTER KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG
Hungary

Objective

BrailleJet is a new advantageous system for the digitally controlled Braille printing which reduces the costs of sheets and
introduces the possibility of printing actual periodicals for the blind. The method is environmentally friendly, and the product
may be recycled in case a proper material is used as substrate. The printed text may provide further information for the blind
and healthy people as well. The substrate and the text are highly durable with negligible wearing resulting from the use. The
proposed printer is a desktop-sized instrument, which is intended for use by blind communities, educational institutes, and is
available at an affordable price. In addition to these, the proposed printer is not simply a new competitor of the existing
Braille printers, but we believe that it would open a new horizon for the written communication for the blind people (monthly/
weekly periodicals) and it could also become a revolutionary tool in the education of the blind. This system would also play a
significant role in improving the tactile sensitivity of the blind, which gradually and constantly decreases due to the use of
high-tech equipments .We introduce a method, which allows depositing well-controlled amount of powder in a certain heap
onto a surface in a wide range of quantity and size. Without further arrangements, these small hills of powder are normally
mechanically vulnerable (which may be acceptable in several applications such as dosing in chemistry), but in our case the
deposited parcels need to be fixed.Based on the technology readiness and the confirmed business opportunity of BrailleJet, CERC, the cordinator (the powder material expert) and INFOALAP, its subcontractor (the distributor of assistive technologies for visually impaired) decided to work together and secure funding within SME Instrument phase 1 to assess our concept and its feasibility then as a next step to get funding within phase 2 for reaching the market-maturity phase.

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.2.1.2. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Nanotechnologies Main Programme
• H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument

Topic(s)

• NMP-25-2015-1 - Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs

Call for proposal

H2020-SMEInst-2014-2015

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Sub call

H2020-SMEINST-1-2015

Funding Scheme

SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Coordinator

CENTRAL EUROPEAN RESEARCH CENTER KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG

• Net EU contribution: € 50 000,00
• Address: Lomb utca 15 4 em ; 1139 Budapest ; Hungary
• SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes:
  Region
  Közép-Magyarország › Budapest › Budapest
• Region: Közép-Magyarország › Budapest › Budapest
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Other funding: € 21 429,00