What is the Difference Between Resistive and Capacitive Touch Screens?

Touch Screens are popular tools used for user engagement. These screens are extensively used for various devices to enhance user experience and improve business prospects.

There are several touch panel technologies available in the market. The resistive touch panel, surface capacitive touch panel, projected capacitive touch panel, surface acoustic wave touch panel, infrared touch panel are a few touch panel technologies available in the market.

The most popular technologies used are the resistive touch panel and the capacitive touch panel.

Resistive touchscreens are made of two layers. Touching the top layer makes contact with the bottom layer, completing the circuit and creating a current loop. Resistive touch screens are less expensive to manufacture and integrate into the program responding to all types of touch functionalities.         

Capacitive touchscreens are made up of two layers a surface insulator and a transparent conductive layer beneath it. The electrostatic field of the touch panel is distorted when it is touched with the finger or a conductive pen.

Which one is better? Resistive or Capacitive?

Capacitive touchscreens are preferred over resistive touchscreens for the following reasons:

Capacitive touchscreens give more contrast and clarity on the screen unlike resistive touchscreen which have more reflections due to their layer count.

Capacitive touch is significantly more sensitive.

Capacitive touch is capable of multi-touch points.

Resistive touchscreens are cost-effective when compared to capacitive touchscreens.

Resistive touchscreens consume less energy when compared to capacitive touch screens.

The touch resolution in resistive touchscreens is higher than that in a capacitive touchscreen.

The touch durability in resistive touchscreens is 3H, and has the risk of easy scratch. Capacitive touch screens have a touch durability of as high as 9H and are hard to scratch.

Resistive touchscreens are easy to manufacture whereas capacitive touchscreens require high-level precision.

Capacitive touch screens support a lot of gestures like zoom in and zoom out, scroll, swipe, drag, slide, hold/press, rotate, tap, etc.

Capacitive touchscreens are easy to clean of dust, grease, moisture, etc.

Capacitive touchscreens are more preferred over resistive touchscreens as they are improvised with sensors that allow using them with heavy-duty gloves.

While both resistive and capacitive touchscreens are unique in their functionality, it is best to choose the one that best suits one’s requirement.

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We offer interactive Touch screen kiosks, multi-touch screens, and LED Touch screens. Our range of touch screens is compatible with USB devices or SD cards to display content.

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