MBTF Accepts Requests for Braille Transcription from Anyone
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Our facility transcribes textbooks and other printed materials into braille for blind and visually impaired persons.
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Submit Your OrderOur facility transcribes textbooks and other printed materials into braille for blind
and visually impaired persons.
MBTF targets and specializes in the "hard to do braille," such as math, science, geography, spelling, and social studies.
We offer K-12 braille textbook transcription and can take on college textbooks and non-textbook educational material as well.
For textbooks in production, volumes are shipped as completed to stay ahead of the student during the school year. MBTF retains the original and ships a copy. Deadlines for other materials depend upon the length and content.
In addition to educational materials, MBTF transcribes tactile graphics, and virtually any type of document for business and/or government. We are willing to review any transcribing project you may have.
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View Price Sheet PDFPlease view the FAQs below for answers to our most frequently asked questions.
If transcription has begun at the time of cancellation, there will be a charge for the costs incurred to date. If transcription has not begun, there will be no charge Textbooks furnished by customers become property of MBTF.
MBTF accepts requests for braille transcription from anyone. The material may be emailed, faxed or mailed in. The customer will need to provide: UEB or EBAE code, number of copies, due date, and contact information. For a textbook, the same information is required along with: ISBN, title, publisher, copyright date and grade (if possible).
Textbooks furnished by customers become property of MBTF. All textbooks transcribed by MBTF are registered with the American Printing House for the Blind.
MBTF refers to any project other than textbooks as “Quick Braille”. We are willing to review any transcribing project you may have.
If the project is “Quick Braille,” MBTF will ship the project when it is completed, unless other arrangements have been made with the customer.
For textbooks being transcribed throughout the school year, volumes are shipped as they’re completed.
The customer is welcome to call for a status at any time.
MBTF will initiate immediate contact with the customer in the event of a problem meeting deadlines.
MBTF provides materials very inexpensively in terms of the market price in the private sector. The major factors behind the reasonable prices at MBTF are: Low cost of labor, High productivity, and Non-profit status. As a non-profit we are able to defray shipping expenses by utilizing the Free Matter for the Blind postage service provided by the U.S Postal Service.
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Transcribing into braille is similar to translating a foreign language to English. To protect against errors and omissions, most of the transcriptions are sent to blind proofreaders.
Several proofreaders are contracted with MBTF to proofread the brailled materials. When materials have been proofread, the corrections are made to the master copy, then copies of masters are prepared for distribution.
Transcription + Single Copy
60¢
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 50¢
Per Braille Page
Transcription + Single Copy
60¢
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 50¢
Per Braille Page
Transcription + Single Copy
50¢
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 40¢
Per Braille Page
Transcription + Single Copy
40¢
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 30¢
Per Braille Page
New software programs have enhanced the braille transcribing process. Technology is constantly improving the methods by which the transcriber encodes textbooks and instructional materials into braille formats as prescribed by the braille authorities. Computer technology has shortened the production time from beginning to completion of a textbook. While most of the tedious work is done by computers, the manual procedures are the mainstay of the experienced transcriber.
Transcription + Single Copy
$2.25
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 60¢
Per Braille Page
Transcription + Single Copy
$2.75
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 60¢
Per Braille Page
Transcription + Single Copy
$3.25
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 60¢
Per Braille Page
Transcription + Single Copy
$4.00
Per Braille Page
Additional Copies 60¢
Per Braille Page
*Add 10% shipping & handling to final cost
Binding $1.00 per volume
To facilitate accuracy in billing and shipping of textbooks that are currently in production, we require a separate purchase order number for each title.
1. Submit the form to the leftabove.
2. We'll respond with a quote.
Submit orders to
Michigan Braille Transcribing Fund
Tax I.D. #38-3387837
Michigan Braille Transcribing Fund
3500 N. Elm Road
Jackson, Michigan 49201 (USA)
517-780-5448
ISBN (number is usually found on title page or back cover)
UEB or EBAE Coding
Title
Publisher
Copyright date
Grade
Number of Copies
Special Instructions*
Date you'd like the publication in hand
Shipping Address
Billing Address
Name and phone number of contact person
*Standard publications are printed Contracted, Single-Spaced, and Interpoint. Please specificy if you require otherwise, for example: Uncontracted, Double-Spaced, Single-Sided
