Turn the normal laser printer to be braille-embossed printer and make the blind people be able to print braille documents by themselves and read at home with no limitation. To make this happen, Touchable Ink, the world-first printing ink invented exclusively for blind people is the game changer.

Samsung, the Chemistry professor from Thammasat University and Thailand Association of the Blind are collaborating to research, develop and have come up with innovative solution called “Touchable Ink” by adding embossing powder to the laser printing ink through chemical process. The users just simply replace the Touchable Ink cartridge to the current one, change the selected document to braille font type, print out and heat it with normal household heating devices like microwave or hair dryer. This special link will dilate and give an embossed effect, just like it’s printed out from the braille embosser and allow the blind people to be able to read by their fingers. We are now at the beginning of the journey, working hard is still in progress but we never stop and aim to complete it to give the life opportunity to all blind people.

With full of ambition and passion, we have put all our investment into the R&D process than media investment ($0 spent on media). However, since the news has been firstly spread out, we have got a very positive attention and feedback with over 225 million impression $560,944 free PR value within the first week. People still keep mentioning about us, we thank you for all support and will continue to complete our highest goal.

• $ 0 Media spent

• $ 560,944 Free Pr Value

• Over 225 Million Impression in 1st week

In Thailand, the visually impaired people have been usually perceived to be incompetent. In fact, they have their own strength and abilities to do, learn and create many things. They just need little help.

Touchable Ink unlocks barriers and frees their visualization to be able to read by themselves. This is not just PR message. We do the work and let people talk about it. This will change how people view blindness from a perspective of gain rather than loss, action rather than reaction and taking care rather than being cared. This goodwill will also help enhance the corporate image.

Touchable Ink is just not a PR message! Samsung, as the leading company in Consumer Electronics & Innovation in the world, what we always do is to make things that can change the better living for people in the society under our belief “Accelerating Discoveries and Possibilities”. For this case, we would like to make change to the life of visually impaired people by unlocking their barrier and free their visualization to be able to read by themselves. We walk the talk, let the work PR itself and not try to find way to do.

Nowadays, many different kinds of technology have been innovated to help blind people to visualize the world, from mobile app, virtual pencil, watch to glasses. However, these technologies have limitation to provide simple requirement they truly want – to be able to read by themselves with their fingers. Only basic device that allow them to do is the ‘braille embosser’ and print on special paper to produce Braille text based document but it’s incredibly expensive and limited to access. Therefore, is there any possibility to commoditize the braille embosser so the blind people can simply afford and access to?