Print a board
Choose a board, adjust how the grid is displayed and print it from the browser, without sending anything to an outside service.
The preparation happens in your browser, on this device: nothing you choose here is sent out, and no document goes to a printing service.
This board belongs to the Mulberry module, kept apart from the rest of the service. Its symbols are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0: any board derived from this one is shared under the same licence, printed copies included. The other boards in Words Within Reach do not use these symbols, and are therefore not covered by this obligation.
Symbols served by this site:
- Material Design Icons / Pictogrammers · Apache 2.0 · Icones Material Design Icons par Pictogrammers (https://pictogrammers.com/) - sous licence Apache 2.0 (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) - conserver une copie de la licence
- Mulberry Symbols v3.6.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pictogrammes Mulberry Symbols (c) 2008-2017 Garry Paxton, (c) 2018-2020 Steve Lee - sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) - toute planche derivee de ces symboles doit etre partagee sous la meme licence
- Twemoji 16.0.1 · CC BY 4.0 · Pictogrammes Twemoji (c) 2014-2021 Twitter, Inc. et contributeurs ; (c) 2022-present Jason Sofonia & Justine De Caires - sous licence CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) - indiquer toute modification
Every set is checked against its licence file before any use. The exact list of the sets used by a given board is on that board’s own page, and in licences.json.
Printing cleanly, in four steps
- Choose the board from the list above.
- Choose the grid and the cell size that suit the sheet and the person who is going to use it.
- Open the print window, with the “Print this board” button or the browser’s print shortcut.
- Choose the orientation of the sheet in this window.
A web page cannot impose the orientation on a printer: only the browser’s print window decides that. The “Landscape” setting on this page widens the grid to six columns when printing, so as to fill a wider sheet: it does not choose the orientation of the sheet for you. This is why the fourth step happens in the print window, and nowhere else.
What paper keeps, what it loses
The title of the board, its grid, the labels under the pictures and the licence of the symbols are printed. The site menu, the buttons, the settings and the sentence bar are not.
This filtering is deliberate: only what can be read and shown stays on the sheet. You can check it yourself, without printing anything: open your browser’s print preview and compare what it shows with what the screen displayed a moment earlier.
Making a paper board last
- Printing in black and white is enough: no cell is distinguished by colour, and the grid and the rules stay legible.
- Laminating the sheet, or slipping it into a clear wallet, protects it from hands, meals and water.
- Always keeping the board in the same place saves looking for it at the moment it is needed most.
Keeping a paper backup alongside an electronic device is a practice described by practitioners in the field and by publishers of augmentative and alternative communication software. A speech and language therapist describes printing a device’s main screens as a backup always worth preparing (PrAACtical AAC), and the publisher AssistiveWare recommends laminated paper copies of the key pages, kept in a predictable place (AssistiveWare).