Elotype 4E - Blista Brailletec • Marburg
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1. Data bits 8 Parity no Stop bit 1 Network interface RS 485 6 pin Western connector for linking ELOTYPES Parallel interface Standard 25 pin Operating voltage input 100V to 240V AC 50 60Hz secondary 31V DC Power consumption 0 55A Total weight 5 6 kg incl tractor feeder and mains adapter Size 295 440 110mm length width height 21 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec Package contents ELOTYPE 4 power adapter dust protection cover Manuals Accessory Interface cable RS 232 Interface cable for parallel port Interface cable for RS 485 Tractor Graphics program BrailleGraf ELVIS D print display unit Ink print printer with interface cable MF 2 keyboard Aluminium frame case or hard plastic case Noise absorbing felt mat Endless paper 1000 sheets in box 12 x 11 or 12 x 8 Single sheets in packs of 250 Hardware adaptation keyboard for single hand operation left right Extra keyboard cover for spastics Individual keyboards for people with multiple disabilities Vibrator for deaf blind persons 22 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec Appendix HELP for installing the ELOTYPE 4 as a printer under WINDOWS 95 98 _ Double click on my computer on the desktop Double click on printer then on new printer Click on continue Select local printer then click continue In the manufacturer menu on the left select Generic Select Generi2. While in typewriter mode press d to switch the ELOTYPE to printer mode An audio signal is played Writing from the braille keyboard or an attached keyboard is disabled Only the space bar K9 is active for marking the top of the page or interrupt and restart printing You can connect the ELOTYPE 4 to a PC or laptop as a serial printer using the serial interface to a COM port 3 1 Set up 3 1 1 Tractor Endless paper Insert tractor for endless paper into slots on the back of the machine The side of the tractor with a small casing and cogwheel is fixed on the left side of the machine Open tractor hatches then insert paper into feed from behind and place over tractor wheels inserting tractor teeth Then close tractor hatches Transport paper manually with the manual feed wheel Pos 7 until the embossing head is just on the beginning of the first page Now press the space bar K9 to mark the beginning of the page and prevent embossing on the perforation The ELOTYPE locks the keyboard until this command is entered The machine is now ready to receive data 3 1 2 Additional settings Before switching the ELOTYPE 4 to printer mode the following settings should be entered in typewriter mode Left and right margins Line spacing Sheet length for endless paper ASCll braille table see chapter 4 6 or 8 dot braille 10 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 3 2 Embossing operation When the ELOTYPE 4 is connected to a
3. Comment 1 cy xx ENTER See 4 2 1 2 cc character braille dots ENTER New dots are assigned 3 cc character braille dots ENTER New dots are assigned Remember Only the commands written in bold should be written in the text file A separate line should be written for each character to be modified A Maximum of 256 characters in eight dot Braille can be configured The Customer Table is loaded after sending the file from the PC to the ELOTYPE This table remains active after switching the mains off Other tables can be selected using the commands in section 4 1 5 The ELOTYPE 4 in a communications system In the typewriter mode all Braille characters embossed on the ELOTYPE 4 are send as their ASCII coding via the parallel and serial RS 232 port for any possible further processing regardless of the device they are entered from the Braille keyboard or a connected MF2 keyboard If you connect the display unit ELVIS to the ELOTYPE 4 via the RS 232 see Appendix you directly can see on the display what is written on the ELOTYPE 13 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec It is also possible to print the embossed Braille characters with an ordinary printer or a PC monitor using a special terminal program such as WINDOWS Hyperterminal 5 1 German Braille grade Often Braille is used according to the rules of grade 1 These rules are contained in a special ASCII Braille table The command
4. K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K 6 and K9 at the same time amp means Press keys K1 K 2 K 3 K 4 and K6 at the same time Enter commands without spaces Numbers Letters a through i together with dot 6 See chapter 10 German braille coding Remember The braille table setting remains stored in memory after power off 4 2 Changing ASCII Braille Table There are two ways to create a personal ASCII braille table 1 Change an existing table using an MF2 keyboard 2 Change a table with the PC 4 2 1 Changing the ASCIl Braille table using an MF2 keyboard First the ELOTYPE has to be switched to the language braille table you want to work with see 4 1 Connect a MF2 keyboard with the key layout of the language you are using to the ELOTYPE The ELOTYPE must be in typewriter mode Now enter the following commands on the MF2 keyboard First step ESC cy xx ENTER This command copies the braille table which you want to modify into the customer table area cy activates the copy command xx correspond to the number of the braille table resp the country code you want to modify see chapter 4 1 e g Italian 39 Please enter without spaces e g Enter the following keys Key ESC key key c key y key 3 key 9 key ENTER After one second the ELOTYPE confirms the input with a positive signal Are there any problems please enter all keys separately without the key ESC and check weather the ELOTYPE prints c y 3 9 properly in br
5. PC or laptop via the serial RS 232 text stored in the PC can be sent to the ELOTYPE The characters must be transferred to the ELOTYPE 4 as ASCII code The ELOTYPE 4 will convert ASCII to braille and emboss it You should finish these preparations before printing While printing the ELOTYPE controls left and right margins and sheet length In case no end of line character CR LF is present in the text or the lines are longer than the ELOTYPE s settings a carriage return is inserted at the end of the line and embossing continues on the next line Therefore for best printouts it is important to make sure the line length settings of the text and the ELOTYPE are identical For printing from an MS DOS text editor no further preparations are necessary In an MS DOS word processor select the text only printer driver Alternatively you can save your text as an ASCII file and print it on the ELOTYPE with any of the following DOS commands PRINT COPY or TYPE and the interface usually LPT1 or COM1 e g copy mytext txt com1 return For printing textfiles from a PC with a Windows operating system you will first have to set up a Generic Only Text printer driver Tips on how to set up an appropriate printer driver and its use with the ELOTYPE will be given later in this manual in section Appendix 3 3 Commands in embossing mode Interrupt printing K9 Pressing the space bar K9 stops printing Start printing again K9 press K9 again to c
6. audio signal Until then the keyboard is blocked Now you can type text in braille using the keys K1 to K6 K7 and K8 which are assigned to appropriate braille dots and the space bar K9 2 2 Additional typewriter functions of the ELOTYPE 4 Besides the general functions described above the ELOTYPE 4 has some additional capabilities which can be invoked to facilitate work In detail these are Set and delete tabs Change left right margins Set line spacing to 7 5 mm 10 mm or 12 5 mm Select 6 or 8 dot braille system Set margin where end of line warning sounds Adjust sound volume Switch to different modes e g printer Since the number of keys on the ELOTYPE 4 is limited to avoid cluttering these functions are activated using key combinations All commands to the ELOTYPE 4 are preceded by a command call Command call means the keys K1 to K6 assigned to braille dots 1 to 6 are pressed while holding down the space bar K9 After releasing the keys the ELOTYPE 4 accepts the input with a positive audio signal and interprets the next input as a command which is accepted with another positive sound if it is recognised as a correct command The command call is shown as a hash in this operating manual Therefore means press K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 and K9 at the same time and release Several keys in a command e g K13 K following the command call must be pressed one after the other ELOTYPE 4 Blista Br
7. find K7 on the right of K6 you find K8 On the left side of the keyboard you find K10 upper key and K11 for paper feed On the right side you find K12 upper key for backspace and K13 for the margin release On the left and right of the long space key K9 you find K and K Upper side Behind the keyboard on top of the machine you find the printing head If you write braille the head moves from the left to the right side In front of the head you find a bar with braille dots Here you can control the position of the head Behind the head you find the table for proof reading On the left and right of this table you find a lever for fixing the paper If you insert the paper please pull one of this levers If the paper is fixed in the right position push the lever Back side On the bottom you find the paper feed slot for inserting paper On the right and left of the paper feed slot there are holes for fixing the tractor for endless paper On the left side you find the cog wheel that drives the tractor Left side On this side you find the interface connectors The first long one is the parallel interface behind this there are two wholes for the network connection of several ELOTYPEs The last one is the serial port for connecting the ELOTYPE to a PC Right side In the front you find two round connectors for the MF 2 keyboard In the middle the power switch is placed On the back there is the connector for the external power su
8. table using the described keys 14 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec Input from the MF2 keyboard Braille output on the ELOTYPE 1 au 1 6 2 eu 1 2 6 3 ei 1 4 6 4 ch 1 4 5 6 5 sch 1 5 6 8 1 2 5 6 9 2 4 6 0 ie 3 4 6 hit SHIFT plus key not a a 3 4 5 Altgr with key not R R 2 3 4 6 Altgr with lt key au 3 4 Altgr with O key st 2 3 4 5 6 Number sign 3 4 5 6 capital letter 4 6 gt capital word 4 5 6 The editor mode The ELOTYPE has a battery backed memory into which text can be written for duplicating print out or transfer to other electronic devices In order to offer a maximum of convenience for the user the large memory with a maximum space for 32 000 Braille characters is organised by pages and lines It is possible to store 25 pages of text in 6 dot Braille with 40 characters per line and 30 lines per page The editor memory is accessed using the command e command call e This command is confirmed with a positive audible signal an ascending scale After the editor has been activated the editor cursor will be placed at the beginning of the first page of the memory page 1 line 1 column 1 Activating another mode e g the printer mode with d closes and leaves the editor memory 6 1 Key definitions in the editor mode In the editor mode the assignment of the Braille keys K1 through K6 on the keyboard can be redefined by pressing K7 or K12 so that K3 is assigned to cha
9. tests it is possible that after a wrong input the ELOTYPE does no longer work normally In such an extreme case the user can use the general reset for trouble shooting 9 1 General Reset Turn off ELOTYPE 4 Hold keys K1 K3 and K5 depressed while turning the ELOTYPE on until an audio signal is heard informing you that the reset process has been completed This may take some time Release the keys K1 K3 and K5 The embossing head will move to the left margin Remember After a General Reset has been performed all user settings e g left right margin tabs volume etc are erased The General Reset returns the ELOTYPE to the brailler mode In addition the machine is set to the following basic values Line spacing 10 mm step 2 signal volume step 6 of 10 The German ASCII braille table is loaded 8 dot braille is selected If a General Reset does not make the ELOTYPE work properly as it used to do please contact your dealer or the manufacturer 20 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 10 Technical data General data Embossing size Medium size embossing 2 5mm dot spacing 6 0 mm character spacing Line spacing Adjustable 7 5 mm 10 mm or 12 5 mm dot 1 to dot 1 of the following line Embossing speed Full 8 dot braille cell 11 char sec Maximum paper width 300 mm Maximum paper length infinite using paper feed slot Paper thickness max 160 g m Serial interface RS 232 Baud rate 9600
10. TYPE 4 in network mode 45 19 8 1 Teacher students communications system 46 19 8 2 Deaf blind communications system 47 19 8 3 Multiple printer 47 19 9 Troubleshooting 48 20 9 1 General Reset 48 20 10 Technical data 50 21 General data 50 22 Accessory 52 22 Hardware adaptation 52 23 Appendix 54 24 German braille coding 58 24 Schematic of serial cable 59 24 CE Certificate of Compliance 60 25 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec The ELOTYPE 4 is an electronic brailler It is equipped with a wide variety of interfaces to provide a maximum of versatility for the operator Braille typewriter Braille printer Communications system between blind and sighted persons Printer for tactile graphics Communications system for deaf blind persons student teacher machine 1 Operating elements of the ELOTYPE Position Function 1 keyboard 2 Parallel interface 3 RS 485 bus 4 RS 232 serial port 5 MF2 keyboard and earphone vibrator sockets 6 Power switch 7 Manual paper feed wheel 8 Power input 9 Embossing head 10 Platen levers 11 Tractor slot 12 Paper feed entry 13 Reading table 14 Platen ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec Position of the operating elements Front part of the upper side In the front part of the machine the Braille Keyboard is placed The long key in the middle is the space key K9 Behind this you find the keys K1 K2 K3 on the left and K4 K5 K6 on the right for the 6 dots On the left of K3 you
11. VW 79140 Manual Elotype Braille amp Inc Read attentively before use ELOTYPE 4 User manual February 2006 Blista Brailletec gGmbH Industriestr 11 D 35041 Marburg Germany Phone 49 6421 802 0 Fax 49 6421 802 14 Email brailletec brailletec de homepage www brailletec de ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec Contents Chapter Page Braille Ink aL Operating elements of the ELOTYPE 6 4 1 1 The keyboard 96 1 2 The interfaces uT 2 The ELOTYPE 4 as a braille typewriter 14 8 2 1 Setup 14 8 2 2 Additional typewriter functions of the ELOTYPE 15 8 3 The ELOTYPE 4 as a Braille printer 21 10 3 1 Setup 21 10 3 1 1 Tractor endless paper 21 10 3 1 2 Additional settings 22 10 3 2 Embossing operation 2 11 3 3 Commands available in embossing mode 24 11 4 ASCll braille tables 25 11 4 1 Selecting ASCII braille tables 26 12 4 2 Changing ASCll braille tables 27 12 4 2 1 Changing the ASCII braille table with MF2 keyboard 27 12 4 2 2 Configuring ASCII braille tables from the PC 29 13 The ELOTYPE 4 in a communications system 31 13 5 1 German braille grade 1 31 14 5 2 Text input from an MF2 keyboard in the communications mode 33 14 6 The editor mode 35 15 6 1 key definitions in the editor mode 36 15 6 2 Editor commands 37 16 6 2 1 Cursor commands 37 16 6 2 2 The delete functions 40 17 6 2 3 Inserting text 42 17 6 2 4 Special editor commands 42 18 7 Printing tactile graphics 44 18 The ELO
12. aille Now your selected table is loaded into the customer table area and you can assign new braille characters 12 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec Second step ESC cc character braille dots ENTER Enter without spaces cc means change character After the command enter the character that should be modified and press the number keys on the keyboard to assign the braille dots with the following rule key 1 on MF2 keyboard for dot 1 key 2 on MF2 keyboard for dot 2 etc key 8 on MF2 keyboard for dot 8 Do not separate the numbers with commas or spaces When finished press ENTER For example to assign dots 3 4 and 5 to the German character a type ESC cca345 ENTER The second step is repeated for each character you want to modify The modifications are permanently stored in the customer Braille table The customer Braille table is not affected by switching the mains off on You can switch to a different Braille table with the commands in chapter 4 1 4 2 2 Configuring ASCII Braille Tables from the PC The complete sequence of commands to modify an ASCII Braille table can also be sent to the ELOTYPE from a PC This requires a text file which must be written into the PC and sent to the ELOTYPE via the RS 232 while the ELOTYPE is in the printer mode Additionally you have to switch the ELOTYPE via keyboard to the language you want to work with see 4 1 e g amp 39 The text file looks like this Line Command code
13. ailletec List of commands in the typewriter mode Set Tabulator K7 Move embossing head to desired position using K or K9 then enter the command Delete Tabulator K7 Go to Tab using K7 then enter the command Set right margin K13 K Set position of the embossing head to the desired right margin Jump over the old margin with K13 if necessary After positioning the embossing head for example with K9 enter command Set left margin K13 K Set position of the embossing head to the desired left margin Jump over the old margin with K13 if necessary After positioning the embossing head for example with K enter command Adjust sound volume K9 K8 Enter command call then hit K9 until the desired volume is reached Exit with K8 Set line spacing 1 20r 3 1 sets line spacing to 7 5 mm 2 to 10 mm 3 to 12 5 mm Adjust margin warning K13 K12 Position embossing head where you wish the margin warning sound signal to ring then enter command Adjust paper length setting K12 xx For endless paper set lengths in 1 steps between xx 08 and xx 13 For arbitrary length of single sheets set xx 00 Paper feed K8 Moves paper to the beginning of the next page Toggle Repeat on off K10 While repeat is on a character is embossed repeatedly when you hold keys down for more than 0 8 sec Press K10 again to switch repeat off Toggle CR LF on off K11 This command switches the automatic carriage return funct
14. and digits required in some of the commands must be entered in German computer braille coding The input coding for commands and digits is not changed when loading language specific ASCII or keyboard conversion tables Char Braille dots 2 3 4 1 6 1 2 6 1 4 6 1 4 5 6 1 5 6 1 2 4 6 1 2 4 5 6 1 2 5 6 2 4 6 3 4 6 J O O1 BB ND 0 D O Z 5 3 ao 0a0 Schematic of the RS 232 Interface cable RS 232 Kabel ELOTYPE PC Zweimal 9 polige Sub D Buchsen Pin Pin 2 3 3 2 5 5 4 8 1 6 8 1 6 4 24 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec CE CE Certificate of Compliance for the Braille typewriter ELOTYPE4 4E We hereby certify that the Braille typewriter ELOTYPE4 has been tested and found to comply with the rules and test standards stated below Equipment name Braille typewriter ELOTYPE4 4E EC rules 89 336 EC 91 263 EC 92 031 EC 73 023 EC Technical basic standards Limit values for radio noise EN 55022 1994 08 and EN 55022 A1 1995 05 KI B Technical basic standard for immunity from noise EN 50082 1 1992 01 Low voltage rule EN 60950 A2 1994 09 Nov 24 1998 E Schafer 77 Manager 25
15. c Text only from the list on the right then click continue Select the interface your ELOTYPE is connected to from the list then click continue LPT1 COM1 COM2 If you select a serial Port like COM1 or COM2 you have to configure this Port 9600 Baud 8 databit no parity 1 stopbit The protocol should be Hardware 8 Now enter Elotype in the enter field printer name If you wish you can then make the ELOTYPE your standard printer by clicking the button below Then click continue 9 Your ELOTYPE will now be installed as a printer If you wish to print a test page click no then click continue 10 Depending on your Windows 95 installation the printer driver is installed either from hard disk diskette or CD The computer will prompt you in case you have to insert a disk 11 Now your ELOTYPE is installed you need to configure it Double click the ELOTYPE icon in the printer window 12 From the ELOTYPE window that pops up select printer from the menu bar then properties from the pop up menu 13 Select the options rider There is a codepage menu on the lower right Select the code table you wish to use normally this is codepage 850 then click on OK ol OE ee ho Now you can print directly from all applications that use the standard Windows printer interface This includes among others WordPad Excel To print power on your ELOTYPE insert paper then press the spacebar KQ after align
16. cursor position c K8 Prints out the memory contents from marker M5 to M6 c xx K8 Prints out xx copies of the text from marker M5 to marker M6 xx 01 to 99 0 Text breakdown All text from marker M5 to marker M6 is broken down into paragraphs aligned on the left margin without hyphenation p Send text via interface All text from marker M5 to M6 is sent via RS 232 and parallel interface with CR LF at the end of each line i Receive text from interface Text received via RS 232 or parallel interface is written into memory starting at marker M4 Writing is not supervised A CR LF is expected at the end of each line m Move text All text between marker M5 and M6 is moved to the position of marker M4 Any existing text is overwritten 7 Printing tactile graphics with the ELOTYPE 4 The graphics mode is activated using the command g The ELOTYPE confirms this command with a positive audio signal Selecting another mode for example the typewriter mode s deactivates the graphics mode In the graphics mode the ELOTYPE 4 receives appropriate data X and Y co ordinates from the RS 232 serial port for positioning the embossing head It prints out graphics with pin 1 of the embossing head This ensures for all the dots to have a constant distance of 2 mm in each direction The graphics program BrailleGraf which runs under WINDOWS is described in the appendix 18 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 8 The ELOTYPE 4 in network
17. he cursor position to the position of marker 1 Pressing K6 outputs an audible warning signal The delete command can then be cancelled using K13 and executed by K 6 2 3 Inserting text The user can insert characters or complete passages of text in an already existing document after the command Open Text Insert has been activated Text is always inserted from the position of the editor cursor or the embossing head Existing text is moved from the insertion point towards the end of the memory A word which cannot be completely written at the end of a line will always appear in the next line If the document is so large that it fills the entire 25 page memory the text moved by the insertion beyond the last line of the 25th page will get lost Each character inserted is confirmed with a beep tone K12 K inserting text on Allows the insertion of text from the cursor position The insertion is confirmed by an audio signal K12 K inserting text off Closes the text insert function and allows to overwrite text again 17 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 6 2 4 Special editor commands K7 Set the tabulator Saves the cursor position as a tab position K7 Cancel the tab If a tab is set at the current position it is cancelled with this command K7 K7 Move to the tab Moves to the next tab position in memory K5 Activates deactivates embossing while writing in the editor The embossing head always moves while writing to indicate
18. ing the first line of the paper under the printhead Then switch into the printer mode by pressing d If you are printing from WordPad or Excel set the page margins upper lower left and right to 0 mm in the print menu The ELOTYPE will control page margins using its own software To print simply select file print from the menu bar then press OK ELVIS ELVIS is a print display unit intended for sighted persons who have no knowledge of braille or do not want to get an expensive computer system for reading text being written on the ELOTYPE ata time ELVIS allows to immediately read in print a text being written on the ELOTYPE in full braille To this end all you have to do is connect ELVIS to the ELOTYPE via the serial port The display always shows the last written four Braille lines with a maximum of 40 characters There are two keys which allows to scroll in a longer text ELVIS weighs 420 g and is 20 5 cm wide 6 5 cm deep and 3 5 cm high The graphics program BrailleGraf for the ELOTYPE BrailleGraf allows making vector oriented drawings This means different drawing objects such as straight lines rectangles circles etc are defined by their start and end points Drawings can be labelled BrailleGraf converts the letters into Braille characters importing images in the BITMAP format BrailleGraf runs under WINDOWS 95 and lager 23 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec German braille coding The letters
19. ion with paper feed on off Switch to printer mode d 1 Sets the ELOTYPE to printer mode Switch to typewriter mode s 1 Sets the ELOTYPE to typewriter mode Select 6 dot 6 1 This command causes the ELOTYPE 4 to print out only 6 dot braille wnatever mode is set Select 8 dot 8 1 This command causes the ELOTYPE 4 to print out 8 dot braille whatever mode is set The ELOTYPE 4 offers further operating modes such as editor network and graphics which are also called via command codes and are described further below ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 1 For digits and letters in German computer braille refer to chapter 10 Technical data Remember a When you switch off the ELOTYPE 4 all personal settings such as tab settings left and right margins line spacing beginning of margin warning sound sound volume repeat function on off and line spacing settings remain stored in memory b After inserting a new sheet of paper always press the space bar K9 when you have positioned the embossing head on the top margin The ELOTYPE waits for this information and the keyboard remains locked until K9 is pressed c Before reaching the end of page the ELOTYPE plays a audio signal at the beginning of the last line d If you move the embossing head by hand to read what you have just written it automatically repositions itself on the next character when you continue typing 3 The ELOTYPE 4 as a Braille printer
20. mode Several ELOTYPEs can be connected to form a network in a loop via the high speed serial Bus RS 485 for example to enable deaf blind persons to communicate or for a teacher student networks The network mode is activated using the command N and terminated using the command n Note that it is important to enter a capital N for network mode and small n to exit In network mode the loop is used as the input output channel for the machines within the network Remember The network mode is activated using the command N N as a capital letter in computer Braille dots 1 3 4 5 7 and terminated using the command n n as a small letter If entered correctly the two commands will be confirmed by a positive signal 8 1 Teacher students communications system All ELOTYPEs are linked via the loop RS 485 and switched to the brailler mode s Use the command N on the teachers ELOTYPE which means this machine is the only one that can send information to all the other machines within the network All input from the Braille keyboard of the teacher s ELOTYPE is received by the students machines It is also possible to send all text received by the teacher s ELOTYPE via the RS 232 port from a PC to the student s machines In this case the teacher s ELOTYPE must first be set to printer mode using the command d All document saved in the editor memory of the teacher s ELOTYPE can be sent to the student s machines using the comma
21. nd p To this end the teacher s ELOTYPE must first be switched to the editor mode using the command e It is not possible to load text into the editor memory of the student s machines via the loop 8 2 Deaf blind communications system While in the brailler mode all the ELOTYPEs linked within the loop are switched to network mode using the command N Now each machine can send and receive information concurrently Any input from the keyboards of all the ELOTYPE s is sent to all the other machines and printed in chronological order 8 3 Multiple printer It is also possible to form a network with several ELOTYPEs using the high speed RS 485 BUS and operate them synchronously as printers To this end the machines need only be switched to the printer mode The ELOTYPE 4 which is connected to a PC via the RS 232 or parallel port is switched to network mode using the command N The master machine then sends the documents received from the PC to all the slaved ELOTYPEs Note Due to the bidirectional printing the slaved machines start printing only after the master machine has printed out the first line 19 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 9 Trouble shooting There is a control program implemented in the ELOTYPE which monitors a great number of possibly erroneous keyboard entries for example wrong numbers and key combinations and rejects them with a negative audio signal a sequence of tones from high to low Despite very extensive
22. negative audible signal K Move cursor towards end of line 1 This command moves the cursor without overwriting text in memory The embossing head is moved simultaneously K Move cursor towards beginning of line This command moves cursor without overwriting text in memory The embossing head is moved simultaneously K7 K1 K Cursor 1 line up The cursor jumps 1 line upwards the beginning of the page and is then located at the beginning of the line K7 K1 K Cursor 1 line down The cursor jumps 1 line towards the end of the page K7 K1 then K3 4 5 6 Prints out cursor line and page Prints out the current line and page numbers line 1 to 30 K3 K4 K5 K6 international numeric sign in Braille The embossing head is then moved to the beginning of the line Print out S xx page Z xx line K7 K1 K8 Print out text in current line The text contained in the cursor line is printed Embossing head does a CR LF K7 K1 xx K8 Move Cursor to line xx 1 The cursor jumps to the beginning of line xx xx 1 30 in computer Braille The embossing head moves accordingly K7 K4 K Move cursor 1 page down Moves the cursor down to the beginning of the next page 1st line 1st column K7 K4 K Move cursor 1 page up Moves the cursor to the beginning of the previous page from x to x 1 1st column 1st line K7 K4 xx Move cursor to the beginning of the page xx 1 25 K7 K4 K8 Print current page Prints out the page on which the curso
23. ockets Pos 5 Both work in parallel Both audio signals e g end of line end of paper and characters are transferred to both sockets Audio signals can be heard on an earphone or felt using a special vibrator e g for deaf blind users The sockets automatically send keyboard signals if a keyboard is connected and audio if earphones or a vibrator are connected ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 2 The ELOTYPE 4 as a braille typewriter 2 1 Set up Connect the power adapter to the power input Pos 8 Connect mains plug to a 100V to 240V socket After switching on the power switch Pos 6 forward towards the dot marking the embossing head moves to the left margin and stops When the power on routine is finished the ELOTYPE gives an acoustic signal Now you can insert paper and define the upper margin by pressing K9 To insert paper pull levers Pos 10 towards the keyboard The paper is inserted from the back of the ELOTYPE into the paper feed slot until it appears under the embossing head and you can adjust it parallel to the far edge of the reading table Pos 13 The paper must be adjusted to the left side of the ELOTYPE 4 When inserting paper a positive sound rising scale is played After adjusting the paper push platen levers backwards Important after inserting paper you must first press K9 so the machine knows the paper has been positioned at the top line under the embossing head When K9 is pressed the machine plays an
24. ontinue the printing To interrupt printing process press K8 Form feed K8 1 Transports paper to beginning of next page select typewriter mode s The ELOTYPE leaves printer mode and returns to the typewriter mode 1 In a structured text the ELOTYPE 4 allows to perform a Form Feed using the ASCII character OC hex Remember During printing the functions of all keys are blocked Only K9 is active for interrupting While printing is interrupted only the above commands can be entered from the braille keyboard Please note that when printing is interrupted pressing K8 to abort will clear the printing buffer 4 ASCII braille Tables Communication between the ELOTYPE and a PC or an ink printer via the available interfaces relies on ASCII characters If an external keyboard is connected keyboard codes are converted into language specific braille signs such as German Umlaute 6 etc Several language specific ASCII Braille tables are stored in the ELOTYPE 11 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 4 1 Selecting ASCII Braille Tables A table can be selected with the command amp xx where amp is composed of the keys K1 K2 K3 K4 and K6 and xx is the phone country code The following tables are available German 849 French 833 American 801 English 844 Spanish amp 34 Slovenian amp 38 Dutch amp 31 Portuguese amp 35 Italian amp 39 Eurobraille amp 98 Customer Table amp 99 means Press keys
25. pply Above this you find the handle for the paper movement ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 1 1 The keyboard ose see K11 K13 K9 The keys and their basic functions K1 K6 Dot keys Keys K1 K6 are assigned to the braille dots 1 through 6 When pressing these keys a braille character is embossed The character is embossed only after the last key of a dot combination is released K7 Tabulator Dot7 K7 alone is the tab key Press this key to move the embossing head to the next tab position K7 plus at least one of K1 to K6 embosses those dots plus dot 7 in 8 dot braille Press K7 together with K K or K9 to emboss only dot 7 Note 8 dot braille must be selected see 2 2 List of commands in typewriter mode K8 New line Dot8 K8 alone is the Carriage Return Line Feed key Press this key to move the embossing head back to the beginning of the next line K8 plus at least one of K1 to K6 or K7 embosses those dots plus dot 8 in 8 dot braille Press K8 together with K K or K9 to emboss only dot 8 Note 8 dot braille must be selected see 2 2 List of commands in typewriter mode K9 Space bar When writing in braille press this key to leave spaces between the words K10 Paper forward feed key Press this key to move the paper forward to the next line position K11 Paper backfeed Press this key to move the paper back to the previous line position K12 Backspace key pre
26. r is located The cursor remains in it s position K7 K6 x K Move marker x to the beginning of the cursor line x x 4 5 6 K7 K6 x K Move marker x exactly to the cursor position x 1 2 3 K7 K6 x K8 Move cursor to marker position x 1 6 16 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 1 These commands are only executed if the appropriate line contains text otherwise the command is rejected with a negative audio signal 6 2 2 The delete functions It is possible to delete a character a word a line or a page by pressing key K12 After pressing this key the user can select K1 through K4 to delete a character using K1 a word using K2 a line using K3 or one or several pages using K4 After the desired key function has been selected press K to delete and close the delete procedure When deleting a character or a word in a line the space resulting is immediately closed by moving the text in the current line accordingly The space resulting at the end of the line can then be closed using the text breakdown command o see section 6 2 4 K12 K3 K Deletes the character on which the cursor is placed and moves text of the line accordingly K12 K2 K Deletes the complete word on which the cursor is placed and moves the text of the line accordingly K12 K1 K Deletes the text from the cursor position to the end of line K12 K4 K Deletes text from the current cursor position to the end of the page K12 K6 K Deletes the text from t
27. racters K2 words K1 lines K4 pages and K6 markers The keyboard can only be redefined in the editor mode This function enables the user for example to delete one character one word one line or one page or insert text In addition it is possible to move the editor cursor by line or by page for more details see Editor commands The editor cursor is an imaginary cursor that marks the memory location in which a braille character is stored There are six markers M1 through M6 which can be used to mark special locations in the entire editor memory like the tabs or riders on index cards M1 M2 and M3 can be moved to any written character without changing it or any memory location M4 M5 and M6 can only be moved to the beginning of a line In the editor mode keys K10 and K11 move only the paper not the editor cursor in memory 15 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec 6 2 Editor commands 6 2 1 Cursor commands There are two special keys K K and a set of instructions which enable the user to control the Editor cursor in the 25 page memory Observe the following first The memory locations for any line in the memory are assigned to the position of the embossing head from the left to the right The editor cursor can be moved forward and back with K forward and with K backward in any memory line and while doing so the embossing head is also moved accordingly If a line is blank the ELOTYPE plays a
28. s amp K select the grade 1 table amp V quit the grade 1 table amp means Press the K1 K2 K3 K4 and K6 keys together This table is only active when the German ASCII Braille table amp 49 is selected at the same time The German Braille grade 1 includes the following rules and while in the communications mode the Braille characters entered are converted into the corresponding full ASCII Input from the ELOTYPE Output in print dots key on ELVIS PC or printer 1 6 au 1 2 6 eu 1 4 6 ei 1 4 5 6 ch 1 5 6 sch 3 4 6 ie 1 2 5 6 2 4 6 3 4 5 3 4 au 2 3 4 5 6 st 2 3 4 6 R 3 4 5 6 a b C i j 1 2 3 9 0 digits until the next space 4 6 1 letter 1 capital letter rest of word in small letters 4 5 multiple letters capital letters until blank The numeric sign 3 4 5 6 and the signs for capital 4 6 4 5 are not printed but only in their result eg number or capital letter 5 2 Text input from the MF2 keyboard in the communications mode Remember Due to limited processor capacity it is not possible to install a program in the ELOTYPE to process MF2 keyboard entries according to the rules of braille grade 1 and convert for example the input of sch into the braille character dots 1 5 6 If a sighted person wants to write German grade 1 Braille via the MF2 keyboard rather than full Braille then it is necessary to input the characters from the MF2 keyboard as shown in the following
29. ss this key to move the embossing head one character backward K12 has a special function in the Editor mode see 6 1 K13 Margin release key If the embossing head is on the margin the margin stop is released by pressing K13 and you can write beyond the margin After pressing K13 at the beginning of the line the embossing head can be moved beyond the margin using keys K12 or K K Moves the embossing head one character forward K has a special function in the Editor mode see 6 1 ELOTYPE 4 Blista Brailletec K Moves the embossing head one character backwards K has a special function in the Editor mode see 6 1 1 2 The Interfaces Serial Port RS232 If the Elotype is used as a braille printer the PC is connected via the serial port You also can connect the Elvis to visualise the characters written on the Elotype in ink The parameters of the serial can t be modified They are fixed to 9600 baud no parity 8 data and one stop bit See Chapter 9 Parallel Port here you can connect an special ink printer to print everything that is written on the Elotype in ink Don t connect any PC at this port Port to connect several EILOTYPEs together Position 3 in the drawing marks an interface socket used in the ELOTYPE 4 to link several machines together in a network MF 2 keyboard input Earphone or vibrator socket For a communications system connect an MF 2 keyboard to the ELOTYPE 4 using either of these two s
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