That hope has not yet been realized. In recent years the only practical method for making tactile graphic materials from computer applications has been through use of swell paper . One must transfer a black image to this special paper and then pass it through an infrared heater that causes black areas to swell. Making good swell paper images is as much art as science, but with practice one can make decent tactile graphic images with it. The braille is not pleasant to read if much text is printed on swell paper, and the process is cumbersome and expensive.
Swell paper costs a dollar or more per sheet typically.
Mr. Peter Langner, a former MS student in the SAP, developed a new technology that permits high resolution embossing.