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Walter Witt
(@walter-witt)
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Touchscreen?!?

https://blog.prusa3d.com/announcing-original-prusa-mk4_76585/#hwfaq

Quote from the Announcement blog post hardware FAQ:

Q: Does the MK4 have a touchscreen?

A: HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…

Posted : 29/03/2023 6:11 pm
karl-herbert
(@karl-herbert)
Illustrious Member
RE:

According to pictures I believe that LCD and printer board are similar to Prusa Mini components (no touch screen).

 

wbr,

Karl

 

Statt zu klagen, dass wir nicht alles haben, was wir wollen, sollten wir lieber dankbar sein, dass wir nicht alles bekommen, was wir verdienen.

Posted : 29/03/2023 7:54 pm
Zbigniew Trzepizur
(@zbigniew-trzepizur)
Trusted Member
RE: Touchscreen?!?

My interpretation is: the touchscreen hardware is there but in its current form the firmware relies on a press-to-confirm encoder like the Mini one (and MK3 for that matter) does. My guess is you wouldn't tease people with such an ambiguous answer if it was a simple "no".

Posted : 29/03/2023 9:21 pm
Neolker
(@neolker)
Member
RE: Touchscreen?!?

It seems that touch screen is included in HW, but not implemented yet in SW, so I guess it is only about time, when the right SW update will come 🙂

Posted : 29/03/2023 10:48 pm
Shushuda
(@shushuda)
Estimable Member
RE: Touchscreen?!?

Tbh, if that's true, I hope that it will be possible to disable it and continue using the clicky wheel. I hate touchscreens on machines like that, makes it too easy to accidentally press the wrong option. I don't have sausage fingers, but I still prefer to have tactile feedback and the ability to "hover" over an option without accidentally activating it, heh.

Posted : 30/03/2023 8:55 am
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Shushuda
(@shushuda)
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RE:

Confirmed it is a touchscreen, just disabled (timestamp 11:53):

Posted : 01/04/2023 7:16 pm
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addohm
(@addohm)
Estimable Member
RE: Touchscreen?!?

100%.  The screen does not actually function but it is a capacitive LCD touchscreen.

Posted by: @shushuda

Confirmed it is a touchscreen, just disabled (timestamp 11:53):

 

Posted : 03/04/2023 9:42 pm
jseyfert3
(@jseyfert3)
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RE: Touchscreen?!?

FYI, it certainly does have touchscreen hardware. I looked at my MK4 LCD screen. I’ve seen a few LCDs outside of cases, and this one immediately was obvious as having a panel applied above the screen, which almost always indicates a digitizer (the part of a touchscreen that detects the location of touches). There were also two ribbon cables, one of which went to the panel on top of the screen. This ribbon cable had “rxc-gg035081a-1.0” printed on it, which a quick google search shows is a 320x480 capacitive multi-touch digitizer.

Posted : 22/07/2023 3:00 am
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