Packaging
An original application for the BOBST ACCUBRAILLE embossing module
Tuesday 13. October 2009 - A request from the French speaking section of the Swiss Federation for blind and partially-sighted persons has led BOBST to realize a new type of application for its ACCUBRAILLE module. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Louis Brailles birth, the Federation decided to produce paper placemats on which a message would be written in Braille. A discussion with the instructors at the BOBST training and demonstration "Competence Center" quickly showed that this job could be embossed using an ACCUBRAILLE module.
Since its launch in 2007, the ACCUBRAILLE has allowed box manufacturers worldwide to optimize the embossing of Braille on their packaging. The module, which is mounted on a BOBST folder-gluer, can emboss any of the four panels of a box, while its rotary system stops any loss of dot definition during production.
Special because it was to be produced on 80 gsm, A3 sized paper, the job BOBST offered to run for the Federation was produced using an ACCUBRAILLE module mounted on an EXPERTFOLD folder-gluer. The job was produced in two stages, one for the embossing of the French text and a second for the German text. The EXPERTFOLD and ACCUBRAILLE handled the job easily, using optional gauges mounted in the feeder in order to facilitate the introduction of these very light sheets and to obtain a good production speed. Perfect alignment was ensured by the ACCUFEED unit installed as standard on the EXPERTFOLD and MASTERFOLD folder-gluers.
Coincidentally, the first machine developed by Henri Bobst, the inventor of the BOBST Autoplaten diecutting press, was a Braille printing machine for the Hospital for Blind People in Lausanne. The machine was later sold in Germany, France, England, and the USA.