As a left handed person I get a little nervous interacting with the screen on the A1 mini. There are some UI Elements such as the back button which could easily be switched over to the right side of the screen. I’m hoping that by making this post I can build some support from my right handed friends. Let’s give our favorite developers a gentle nudge to modify the screen UI so that the most important buttons are further away from the bed. Who’s with me?
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Why does it matter what side of the screen they’re on?
I’m a leftie with an A1M and I’ve had no issues with it…
It doesn’t for me, but I suppose it would be because your hand would be in the way of the bed? 
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correctamundo! That bed is the fasted slinger in the west. If you are using your left hand to interact with the screen: it’s only a matter of time before something preventable happens.
As another member of the Bar Sinister, it’s just another case of discrimination against Lefties. 
I doubt there is much that can be done with the UI to make it better for us Sinister types, there is simply not enough screen real state to work with. It’s particularly awkward to operate left handed with the bed presented all the way forward at the finish of the print. My personal solution is to keep my Mini pulled all the way forward to the edge of the table and then I can reach up from below the screen to operate it.
It would have been better to have offset the display farther to the right if it needed to located on the right side of the machine. I would have argued to place the screen on the centerline of the machine to equally anger everyone.
I’m a leftie too, this is interesting… wonder how many of us are here?
I vote we discriminate against righties on the K3X (or whatever their next printer is)
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About 15% in the general population across the world according to statistics. Or 71.4% of the 5 out of 7 posts in this thread.
This means we are the majority and we get to put the screen on the left side of the printer now.
True… but it also ties two of my theories together. Left handed people, geniuses. People deeply in to 3D printing, geniuses. I need a Venn diagram on this stat.
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I’m a lefty.
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Dang… if only we had some way to fabricate a plastic hand-guard that could be attached to the side of the touch panel!
(Just to make sure that wise-ass-phrased suggestion isn’t taken the wrong way: I’m not making light of the problem or anything like that. Just suggesting a potential solution, since I doubt we’re gonna see a free upgrade from BL for this. 
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I opened a ticket and said I wanted the screen on the left, they told me to mount the printer upside down! I’ve got a million jokes today, riding the new printer feeling lol.
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Oh no… does the plate actually move above the touch panel? It’s hard to tell looking at pictures.
I don’t own an A1 and I’m not left handed… what am I even doing here? 
So is a printed solution feasible? It does look like it might need to be glued or attached with some small drill holes or something, which is unfortunate. Another possible mitigation, maybe if you had a way to raise it up higher it would be a bit safer? (I guess next come the “bed poked my left eye out” jokes.) If your hand starts out below the bed it’d seem to be safer than bringing your hand down to the panel from above the bed.
Sorry, you got me into the standard engineer problem->solution trap, and I’m an un-serious person so you get bad humor along with it. 
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I too am left handed and have struggled with right handed designer issues all of my long, sometimes frustrated, life. But, we lefties are bigger then that, so I forgive them for their thoughtless designs and adapt.
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When you say “thoughtless”, what did you expect them to do?
I mean hitting buttons on a screen isn’t too hard so you could just use your right hand when the printer is printing…
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My dad is left handed and when he was in school they used to tie his left hand to his leg and force him to write with the right hand. Seems the only sensible solution and easily applicable to 3d printing as well.
(No, it didn’t work)
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At least they didn’t do that to me, but they did keep taking the pencil from my left hand and put it in my right hand until they gave up. I won the battle but they won’t let me rotate the paper so I had to write upside down 
How do you write upside-down without rotating the paper?