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thermoptic · 11-19-2007, 11:00 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by industrialguy

While you can simply hang a touch screen on the front of an LCD with 2 sided tape, you will loose a significant amount of display brightness and contrast that way. Bonding gets rid of the 2 inner surfaces and will make the display much clearer and brighter. Clearview does a good job.

These guys used to have a white paper on bonding on their site in their display section http://www.chassis-plans.com.

Optical bonding is definitely the way to go but you are looking at $400 dollars, which is out of my price range. I have some links regarding Clearview's G-Bond earlier in this thread.

On a related note, there was discussion in my NEC LCD thread regarding a lead on a manufacturer that was selling LCD panels with bonded touch screens (perhaps overstock from deal gone south?). Can't remember who posted and it was never confirmed...

If you're in the business and have the right contacts, I suppose you could skim one off the top of a large order for a reasonable price. Of course, this is not practical for general public. Perhaps a group b...

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11-19-2007, 11:00 PM	#23
thermoptic Constant Bitrate Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 116	Quote: Originally Posted by industrialguy While you can simply hang a touch screen on the front of an LCD with 2 sided tape, you will loose a significant amount of display brightness and contrast that way. Bonding gets rid of the 2 inner surfaces and will make the display much clearer and brighter. Clearview does a good job. These guys used to have a white paper on bonding on their site in their display section http://www.chassis-plans.com. Optical bonding is definitely the way to go but you are looking at $400 dollars, which is out of my price range. I have some links regarding Clearview's G-Bond earlier in this thread. On a related note, there was discussion in my NEC LCD thread regarding a lead on a manufacturer that was selling LCD panels with bonded touch screens (perhaps overstock from deal gone south?). Can't remember who posted and it was never confirmed... If you're in the business and have the right contacts, I suppose you could skim one off the top of a large order for a reasonable price. Of course, this is not practical for general public. Perhaps a group b..., but these are forbidden in the forums.