5 Things You Didn't Know About Resistive Touchscreens
Resistive touchscreens are a popular choice for commercial applications. If you're looking for one or more touchscreen devices to use for business-related activities, you may want to choose this technology. All resistive touchscreens feature two layers of resistive material with patterned electrodes. Performing a touch command will press the layers together so that the device can identify your touch command. Below are five facts about resistive touchscreens.
#1) Supports Multi-Touch Commands
Capacitive touchscreens aren't the only type of touchscreen devices that support multi-touch commands. Many resistive touchscreens support them as well. With multi-touch commands, you can touch two or more areas of the display interface at the same time. It's commonly used for pinch-to-zoom and similar types of commands.
#2) Water Resistant
You don't have to worry about moisture or other liquids damaging resistive touchscreens. They offer a high level of water resistance - even more so than capacitive touchscreens. The water-resistant properties of resistive touchscreens, in fact, is one of the reasons why they are so popular in the workplace. Restaurants, for instance, often use point-of-sale (POS) terminals that feature a resistive touchscreen. With a resistive touchscreen, there's little or no risk of moisture damage.
#3) Control With a Bare Finger or Gloved Finger
You can control resistive touchscreens with a bare finger or a gloved finger. Some touchscreens, of course, require a bare finger. Most capacitive touchscreens fall under this category. If you wear gloves while controlling a capacitive touchscreen, it won't recognize your touch commands. This isn't a concern with resistive touchscreens because they use pressure to identify touch commands rather than capacitance.
#4) Four- and Five-Wire Configurations
Resistive touchscreens are available in four- and five-wire configurations. Both types feature the same underlying technology. Nonetheless, there are nuances between four-wire resistive touchscreen and five-wire resistive touchscreens. Five-wire resistive touchscreens offer a higher level of precision. They can detect the location of touch commands more accurately than four-wire resistive touchscreens.
