4-Way Privacy Filter

Describing How Your Screens Are Read

Start with how each screen is actually held and read, because that description is what this variant has to be quoted against. If a tablet lies flat on a table, tilts on a stand, or rotates between portrait and landscape in the hand, write that down. If a screen is read standing — for example a chart reviewed at a tilted monitor, or a display glanced down at from a lectern — write that down too, as a pattern to describe rather than an assumption about your rooms. For each pattern, ask which directions of view the filter you are quoted is stated to darken, and have the answer named per device in the quotation.

Then ask the rotation question in whether form. Ask whether the version you are quoted is stated for a device that turns between portrait and landscape, and whether its stated directions of view are stated to hold in both orientations, and have both answers named in the quotation. Ask whether a sample is available for a rotating device, and judge the sample in both orientations, from the positions your own description names, before the estate order is written.

The iPad Case in Particular

The supplier's own listings carry a 4-way anti-spy protector for iPad, and the photograph on this page is that product's image — tablets in both orientations. Send your tablet models in the inquiry and ask for the 4-way fit for each one to be confirmed in the quotation, and ask whether the fit is stated for each orientation in which you use the device.

If your tablets are worked by touch or by stylus, name that use in the inquiry and ask what touch behaviour is confirmed for the version you are quoted. If the tablet also travels to desks, the touch-screen variant page of this family is the neighbouring specimen to compare.

Fitting Questions for This Variant

The fitting questions to ask for the version you are quoted are the front-and-back ones: ask whether a face is stated to go outward, and whether that version is described as reversible, with a glossy and a matte face, or finished on one side only. Ask whether fitting information is stated for your tablet model, and whether removal is described for the version you are quoted, and have those answers stated per model in the quotation. Send a photograph of the tablet's back and edges with the inquiry if you can, so the questions are asked against the real device.

When to Ask About the 2-Way Variant Instead

Plenty of buyers should ask the question the other way round. If a screen is a fixed monitor in a row of desks and no reader ever stands above it, say exactly that in your own specification, and ask whether the 2-way listed variant should be quoted for it instead of this one. If a screen tilts, turns or is read standing, describe that pattern and ask whether this variant is the one stated for it. Send the device list grouped by how each screen is actually read, with the pattern beside each group, and ask for the quoted variant for each group to be named against it in the quotation.

Portrait, Landscape and the Rotating Desk

If a screen in your estate flips between portrait and landscape in normal use, name that pattern in the inquiry and ask for the 4-way variant to be confirmed against that screen. Ask whether a sample is available, fit it to a rotating tablet your team uses, and judge it in both orientations yourself before the estate order is written. Send the tablet model and the screen size with the inquiry, so the answer is given for that screen by name.

Ordering the 4-Way Privacy Filter

Send the device models — tablets especially — and the quantities, and ask for the 4-way fit for each model to be confirmed in the quotation. For mixed estates, group the fixed screens and the hand-held screens separately, and describe how each group is read, so the questions above can be answered group by group. Ask whether samples are available for a pilot group before the full order.

Four Sides, and the Two-Side Alternative