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Title: touch screen monitor
Post by: prezo1 on February 13, 2009, 06:24:43 pm

i have bought a touch screen monitor to make a jukebox.i have set the screen up but when i touch it the cursor moves away from my finger,about 2"  to the right.i have downloaded the latest drivers for it and cleaned the screen.any ideas please.
it is a 3M 17 Inch MicroTouch Touch Screen LCD Flat Monitor
thanks

prezo 

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: sarge on February 13, 2009, 06:35:07 pm

Did you try to calibrate it???

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: prezo1 on February 14, 2009, 08:01:14 am

yes i have tried on 2 and 4 corner calibration.

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: Kevin Mullins on February 14, 2009, 09:55:56 am

What model monitor is it ?

Are you running the 3M MT 7.12 drivers and utilities ?
http://www.touchscreens.com/support-drivers-microtouch.html (http://www.touchscreens.com/support-drivers-microtouch.html)

Try going into the MICROTOUCH CONTROL PANEL then TOOLS and RESETTING the controller.
And then re-calibrate.

There's always a chance it's just a bum screen too.

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: coinopman on February 17, 2009, 09:57:46 pm

make sure u have a good ground. place one hand on a known grounded metal area. then touch screen if it works properly then u have a ground issue.

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: shrunkenmaster on April 30, 2010, 02:04:32 pm

Having troubles too with a 3m touchscreen, just posted in the monitors forum - any answers?

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: lilshawn on April 30, 2010, 03:39:01 pm

not sure about the 3-m controllers, but the ELO ones have an advanced calibration. you have to touch the screen about 20 times all over but it works.

have a look through the programs and the options you may find something similar.

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: shrunkenmaster on April 30, 2010, 03:53:59 pm

hi lilshawn, I take it you don't mean trying ELO drivers instead? I've exhausted all the install/config options with the 3M drivers. Tried version 12 and 13 of the 3M drivers and the calib is still way off. Maybe I have a duff screen.

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: Franco B on April 30, 2010, 04:06:32 pm

Maybe you do have a faulty screen. I bought two 17" 3M Microtouch's, downloaded the drivers and it has worked fine on the first one I have tried. I haven't tried the second one though.

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: lilshawn on April 30, 2010, 04:46:06 pm

Quote

I take it you don't mean trying ELO drivers instead?

no, no... i j ust thought maybe they had the same type of thing.

try calibrating "small" IE if you get a target in the top left, come towards the middle of the screen about 1 inch. if you get a target in the bottom right side.. again come towards the middle... see if it works (even slighly)

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: Kevin Mullins on April 30, 2010, 07:06:59 pm

3M Control Panel -
Under  "Tools", click Advanced Options, Enable Manual Linearization.
A new tab with appear as "Controller..... click "Linearize".

This will start a much more detailed calibration process and accuracy test sequence.

Title: Re: touch screen monitor
Post by: grantspain on April 30, 2010, 07:20:09 pm

someone mentioned ground earlier-this is very important