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This is pretty much all of my concerns as well. The top like 2/3rds of mine is pretty accurate on the tip of the pencil when writing, but on the bottom 1/3rd it's off by about 2mm and it's freaking obnoxious. It makes me hate writing on it to the point where I've gone back to real paper. I do occasionally use it for reading papers and other page-sized PDFs, but it's really not worth the cost for writing.

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Pen accuracy uniformity has always been one of the bigger issues with the RM2 in comparison to its e-ink competitors. It's beyond annoying to pick up the pen to dot an "i" and see the dot appear a mm away from the rest of the letter, especially if you're writing along the right edge of the device. This is probably one of the motivations why they're ditching EMR pens in this new device.

If the new pens fix the issue, that alone is worth an upgrade, but I think it's too late for me. 1 RM Pro vs a nice notebook, pencil, eraser, lead, and iPad Air for about the same cost is just... not happening. I'm not falling for it again.

Use the pen that comes with it, magnet side facing the screen and sweep across the areas that are misaligned or the whole screen.

This fixes things for me.

Mine actually usually has okay uniformity everywhere except about an inch from the right edge (particularly 1/3rd of the way from the top) and the magnet trick doesn't fix it for me there.

Not for me.

This has never worked for me. Sometimes it's more than 1 mm off.

I haven't heard this trick. I'll try it out!

I’ve heard this and tried and didn’t notice a difference. What’s supposed to happen here? I have the Marker Plus.

Same. I can draw a straight line down my screen, and the drawn path deviates noticeably in certain areas, despite the pen moving in a straight path. Makes writing difficult. Have to sort of trust your hand movement, rather than watching your markings on the screen. Adjusting to the drawn marks will just lead you off slanted.

I use mine mostly for drawing diagrams and sketches, and the fact that I can barely predict the start point, end point, or route that a line I'm drawing will take means that it's rough sketches at best. Enough to capture an idea but I'm reminded how far from heaven we are when I go back to a propelling pencil on sketch paper.

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