Livescribe™ Smartpen User Guide
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Working with Dot Paper Products
Livescribe prints notebooks, journals, flip notepads, and other Livescribe™ dot paper products for your
Livescribe smartpen. There is nothing special about the composition of the paper used for Livescribe™
dot paper products. However, each page of Livescribe™ dot paper is printed with thousands of nearly-
invisible microdots arranged in a special pattern. Your Livescribe smartpen reads these dots to
determine which page you are using and where on that page you are tapping or writing. With this
information, your smartpen can capture your notes, link audio to them, and perform other paper-based
operations.
Livescribe™ dot paper products sometimes re-use dot pattern. As a general rule,
do not use
Livescribe™ dot paper products with the same dot pattern at the same time
. This prevents a potential
problem that can happen when viewing your notebooks in Livescribe™ Desktop: when you write in two
notebooks with the same pattern, your notes from the second notebook will be superimposed on your
notes from the first notebook when you view them in Livescribe™ Desktop.
Because Livescribe™ dot paper Products are important to working with your Livescribe smartpen, you
should learn to manage and archive them.
Guidelines for Managing Paper Products
Understanding how your Livescribe smartpen interacts with Livescribe™ dot paper can be challenging.
Fortunately, you do not need to know how it all works. All you need to do is follow these guidelines:
•
Before using the new paper product, tap on the Notebook Status Label. If it says you are already
using a notebook with the same number, be sure to archive your old notebooks on Livescribe™
Desktop first. See
Checking Paper Product Usage on page 108
.
•
When purchasing Livescribe™ dot paper, buy notebooks or journals that have different numbers
than the ones you are currently using. To learn about Livescribe™ dot paper numbering, see
About
Livescribe™ Dot Paper Naming on page 108
.
