HP Kayak XM600 User Manual page 66

4 Working in Comfort
Setting Up Your
HP Computing
Equipment
Your HP Monitor
• Wrists - Your wrists should be as straight as possible while using the
keyboard, mouse or trackball. They should not be bent sideways, or
more than 10 degrees up or down.
• Legs - Your thighs should be horizontal or angled slightly downward.
Your lower legs should be near a right angle to your thighs. Your feet
should rest flat on the floor. If necessary, use a footrest, but double
check that you have your seat height adjusted correctly before getting
a footrest.
• Head - Your head should be upright or tilted slightly forward. Avoid
working with your head or trunk twisted.
• Overall - Change your position frequently and take regular breaks to
avoid fatigue.
Make sure that all the elements of your HP computer system—monitor,
document holder, keyboard, mice and other input devices, and
headphones and speakers—are optimally arranged and adjusted to meet
your personal requirements. The recommendations that follow will help
you achieve this.
It is important that your monitor screen be clean and positioned correctly
to improve readability and help you work comfortably. Glare, high
contrast, reflections, dirt and dust will interfere with what you see on the
screen. The recommendations that follow can help you achieve a
comfortable arrangement.
• The top of your monitor screen should be at or slightly below eye level.
Most HP monitors come with a tilt-and-swivel feature that makes it
easy to adjust the screen position.
• To avoid obscuring your view, the screen should be positioned
perpendicular to your line of sight; that is, straight on.
• To avoid glare or reflection, try to position the monitor so the screen
is at a right angle to your window rather than in front of it. If reflection
or glare persists, tilting the screen forward may help.
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