inkprint

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noun

Ordinary ink printing, when contrasted with braille.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nouninkprint (countable and uncountable, plural inkprints)

plural inkprints

  1. countableuncountableOrdinary ink printing, when contrasted with braille.

    “Twin-Vision” books are inkprint with braille overlays that help young children learn that words can be either seen or touched.

    1987, Rose-Marie Swallow, Kathleen Mary Huebner (eds.), How to Thrive, Not Just Survive, American Foundation for the Blind, page 40
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    Devices that permit direct reading of inkprint would be far more useful, since then the entire library of published literature is then opened to a deaf-blind person, while only a relatively small selection can ever be put into braille.

    1975, Communication and Sensory Aids for the Deaf-Blind, page 5

    A Braille library looks certainly dull and cold to the sighted person's eyes, used to inkprint libraries, since the Braille one looks more like a shelved collection of large bound legal documents.

    2008, Fernando Poyatos, Textual Translation and Live Translation, John Benjamins Publishing, page 32

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