17in touch screens come with choice of specs

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 8, 2005

Elo TouchSystems has two new 17in liquid crystal display (LCD) rearmount touchmonitors, the 1749L featuring a wide viewing angle panel and the 1746L with a lower spec panel.

Elo TouchSystems has two new 17in liquid crystal display (LCD) rearmount touchmonitors, the 1749L featuring a wide viewing angle panel and the 1746L with a lower spec panel.

Both touchmonitors feature Elo's clear glass IntelliTouch surface wave touch technology for the utmost in optical quality.

The touchmonitors complement Elo's existing family of 12.1, 15, 17 and 19in LCD chassis touchmonitors that feature a choice of Elo's touch technologies.

The 1746L and 1749L touchmonitors have identical form factors, differing only in their panel specifications, offering customers a choice which they can easily pass on to their customers.

Both feature a unique injectionmoulded minibezel with a watertight seal that makes them ideal for indoor/outdoor kiosks, ticketing machines, medical equipment, industrial automation and gaming/amusement applications, available with a choice of touch technologies.

"Elo has reduced the overall outside dimensions of the new 17in touchmonitors by about 10% in height and width, made them 13% thinner and designed a new minibezel that is about 50% smaller, all while maintaining the overall integrity of the design", said Mike Sigona, Elo Market Manager.

"This makes the 1746L and 1749L extremely convenient, allowing Elo's customers to expand the choice of economical touch solutions they can provide to their customers".

Elo's 1749L 17in LCD rearmount touchmonitor features a 170 degree vertical by 170 degree horizontal wide viewing angle panel with 500:1 contrast ratio and 250cd/m2 brightness.

The pure glass IntelliTouch surface wave touchscreen maintains graphic quality and clarity, reducing the light transmission only slightly to 230cd/m2.

"This wide viewing angle and brilliant display combine to grab the user's attention", said Sigona.

Also available in the same form factor is the 1746L with a viewing angle of 140 x 140 degrees, similar contrast and brightness, but at a lower price."The option of a lower spec panel with the same footprint allows customers to offer a value/performance choice to their customers or to different target markets, without requiring two different designs", continued Sigona.

The 1746L and 1749L touchmonitors, like all of Elo's LCD chassis monitors, have a long-lasting product cycle because the enclosure is controlled by Elo's specifications.

The monitors feature a unique injectionmoulded minibezel and virtually invisible watertight seal, plus a choice of mounting options including rearmount VESA.

The 1749L offers a Digital Video Input (DVII) in addition to the standard analogue input, both have built-in support for both serial and USB touch interface, a remote multilingual onscreen display (OSD), as well as worldwide power and agency approvals.