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Jul 15, 2006
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I’ve just bought an Intuos A5 but the soft material that covers the active area on the top is loose… you can lift it up at the front. Is that normal? Someone suggested that maybe it was for putting paper under for tracing.
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Wizard of Draws
Jul 15, 2006
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I’ve just bought an Intuos A5 but the soft material that covers the active area on the top is loose… you can lift it up at the front. Is that normal? Someone suggested that maybe it was for putting paper under for tracing.
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Helen
Jul 15, 2006
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I’ve just bought an Intuos A5 but the soft material that covers the active area on the top is loose… you can lift it up at the front. Is that normal? Someone suggested that maybe it was for putting paper under for tracing.
If you examine it carefully you’ll see that it’s loose, as you put it, by design, and therefore your guess is quite correct.
H.
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will_usher
Jul 15, 2006
ok thank you. Although there is nothing that suggests that it is loose by design. How can you trace through this? Its not transparent.. is there a backlight that i’m not noticing as well?

Helen wrote:
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I’ve just bought an Intuos A5 but the soft material that covers the active area on the top is loose… you can lift it up at the front. Is that normal? Someone suggested that maybe it was for putting paper under for tracing.
If you examine it carefully you’ll see that it’s loose, as you put it, by design, and therefore your guess is quite correct.
H.
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noone
Jul 15, 2006
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ok thank you. Although there is nothing that suggests that it is loose by design. How can you trace through this? Its not transparent.. is there a backlight that i’m not noticing as well?

Helen wrote:
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I’ve just bought an Intuos A5 but the soft material that covers the active area on the top is loose… you can lift it up at the front. Is that normal? Someone suggested that maybe it was for putting paper under for tracing.
If you examine it carefully you’ll see that it’s loose, as you put it, by design, and therefore your guess is quite correct.
H.

Hm-m, I only have up to the Intuos II, but all my Wacoms have a VERY translucent sheet – almost transparent, except for the "tooth" of the sheet. I wonder if there is not some packing sheet, still attached to yours. One should be able to see clearly through that top sheet.

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will_usher
Jul 16, 2006
Yeh I have checked and the Intuous 3 doesn’t have a transparent sheet. Maybe its made like that so that it can be easily replaced, although I wouldn’t know how you could replace it without using glue. Maybe Wacom would need to replace it.

Hunt wrote:
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ok thank you. Although there is nothing that suggests that it is loose by design. How can you trace through this? Its not transparent.. is there a backlight that i’m not noticing as well?

Helen wrote:
wrote in message
I’ve just bought an Intuos A5 but the soft material that covers the active area on the top is loose… you can lift it up at the front. Is that normal? Someone suggested that maybe it was for putting paper under for tracing.
If you examine it carefully you’ll see that it’s loose, as you put it, by design, and therefore your guess is quite correct.
H.

Hm-m, I only have up to the Intuos II, but all my Wacoms have a VERY translucent sheet – almost transparent, except for the "tooth" of the sheet. I wonder if there is not some packing sheet, still attached to yours. One should be able to see clearly through that top sheet.

Hunt

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