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(More customer reviews)Previous reviewers have given a good overview of how the product works. I will discuss what it can do for you.
PaperShow is optimized for two tasks: annotating PowerPoint presentations, and participating in digital whiteboard sessions. Why, you may ask, would you want to do these things? And how is PaperShow better than a mouse or tablet for these tasks?
First, PowerPoint presentations. The smaller PaperShow paper is designed for you to print your PowerPoint presentation on, in advance. Do this from within the PaperShow application, because it prints your PowerPoint slides in a special way to allow the pen to work. During your presentation, you write on the paper with your PaperShow pen, which gives you a very accurate way to mark up a slide. I found that this was much more accurate and easier than using a mouse or laptop touchpad for the same task. However, it's similar to using a tablet with a pen stylus. One advantage offered by PaperShow is accuracy: once you print your slides on the special paper, you can underline something very precisely, or write in exactly the place you want the words to appear. This is tough without PaperShow. If you've tried it with a mouse, or even a tablet, you've experienced lines and marks appearing in the wrong place on screen, or at weird angles. The other advantage of PaperShow is you finish with a copy of your markups, both electronic and on the special paper.
OK, what about whiteboard sessions? This is where PaperShow should really shine. I collaborate remotely with people on many different projects. We have started to use shared whiteboard applications on the web. To use these effectively, you really need some sort of pen input device. In whiteboard applications, PaperShow would be clearly superior to pen tablets because of the paper: you can look at what you are drawing on the paper rather than draw on the tablet and watch the output on your screen. Unfortunately, PaperShow does not work with collaborative whiteboard apps, only with the included whiteboard app. The included app works very well for audiences in the room, but PaperShow is missing the boat without an online, collaborative app or an interface to an existing solution that's already out there.
If you don't immediately respond to one of these two applications for PaperShow, the product is not for you. My PowerPoint and local whiteboard sessions are better because of it.
Two suggestions to the manufacturer: spend less money on the packaging, which is very deluxe and expensive. Use the savings to upgrade the included binder with a place to store the pen, instead of the separate pen box. As much quality design effort that went into this product, I'm surprised you didn't do this already. We are already juggling our car keys, cell phone, laptop, briefcase, etc. when we arrive at a meeting. We don't need a plastic pen case to keep track of as well.
Second suggestion: include an online, collaborative whiteboard app as described above.
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PaperShow Starter Kit, The complete kit solution to get started with PaperShow, Includes; 1 PaperShow Notepad A4 Format (48 Sheets), 1 PaperShow 8.5" X 11" Printer Paper (30 Sheets), 1 PaperShow Digital Pen, 1 PaperShow USB Key.Accessories supplied: Pen: 1 AAA battery, 3 Ink Refills, 4 Colored Rings to Personalize the Pen, Key: 4 Colored Rings to Personalize the Key, 1 Pen Holder to Carry the Key and the Pen, 1 Binder to Carry and File the PaperShow Printed Sheets,
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