Smart Technologies SMART Board D600 - Manual (Page 12)

4 | CHAPTER 1 – ABOUT YOUR SMART BOARD 600 OR D600 SERIES
INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD
Understanding How Your SMART Board
Interactive Whiteboard Works
Your interactive whiteboard functions as an input device for your computer, just like a
mouse, enabling you to work in any application on your computer from your interactive
whiteboard’s screen.
When you touch your interactive whiteboard’s screen, your interactive whiteboard
detects the contact’s horizontal and vertical (or x,y) coordinates. Your computer’s
mouse driver interprets these coordinates and moves the pointer to the corresponding
point on the screen.
Using your interactive whiteboard requires a computer and a digital projector.
These components work together as follows:
• Your computer runs an application, and
then sends the image to your projector.
• Your projector casts the image onto your
interactive whiteboard.
• Your interactive whiteboard acts both as
your computer’s monitor and its input
devices, i.e., mouse and keyboard,
enabling you to control any application
by touching the screen.
When you install SMART Product Drivers on your computer and all the pens and the
eraser are in their pen tray slots, the touch of your finger on the screen becomes a
mouse click, enabling you to control your computer from your interactive whiteboard.
When you remove a pen from the pen tray, sensors detect which tool you’re using.
SMART Product Drivers then interact with your computer’s mouse driver to change
the pointer to a colored pen, enabling you to write in digital ink on your desktop or any
open application. When you replace the pen and pick up the eraser, you can erase the
digital ink from the screen. You can also save your notes to a SMART Notebook file
or directly into any Ink Aware application.