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Re: Using ballpoint pen as stylus?

Byron Collins wrote:

> 
> "Roy S Schestowitz"
>
<roy-dot-schestowitz-at-isbe-dot-man-dot-ac-dot-uk@use-address-before-at.com
>> wrote in message cbljtb$15p6$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk">news:cbljtb$15p6$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
>> (Pete Cresswell) wrote:
>>
>> > Anybody tried it for any length of time.
>> >
>> > Seems to work pretty well....screen doesn't absorb or adsorb the
> ink...and
>> > it's certainly a precision point - i.e. no sharp edges to scratch the
>> > screen's plastic like on the occasional regular stylus..
>> >
>> > But what about longterm effects?
>>
>> I tried a pen of mine several times in the past and I didn't realise it
> was
>> causing noticeable wear to the screen. My graffiti region is now useless.
>> Why would you want to stop using styli? Have you lost yours? What I still
>> strongly recommend is pasting a stripe of duct tape over the entire
>> graffiti region.
> 
> Over at a local Wal-Mart Auto Express they were using
> a palm device to check customer in for car service. They
> would ask each customer to sign their signature in a box
> area on this palm device screen. First time I seen a really worn
> out region on a screen.
> 
> Byron

That appears to only cause cosmethic damage though. Real damage is probably
caused only when something pungent is pressed _hard_, weighing down the
sensors.

...and yet that clean look of the screen is important to me...

*smile*


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