A MacBook privacy screen and an iPad writing film solve two completely different problems — and neither is specified the way a phone film is. Two device lines, four functions, two mounting methods. Tell us where the screens are and what they're for, and we'll tell you which one to buy.
Each line has its own mounting constraint, its own device coverage and its own reason to exist. Buying both from one factory means one packaging spec, one artwork set and one QC standard across a whole deployment.
Magnetic mount. Cut to the exact lid geometry of each MacBook size, 13" through 16". Magnets seat against the lid so the film snaps on and lifts off — no adhesive on the panel, no residue, nothing to damage the anti-reflective coating on the way out. Cut-outs are opened for the lid-sleep sensor and the camera on every MacBook panel, so the machine still sleeps when you close it and nothing ever sits in front of the lens.
Typical buyer: mobile teams, field sales, anyone who works on a laptop in public.
Magnetic or full-adhesive. Magnetic for anything that comes off — note-taking, classroom pools, shared devices. Full-adhesive OCA bond for installations that never come off and need zero air gap.
Typical buyer: education fleets, design and studio channel, retail and POS.
The screen goes dark off-axis and stays clear straight on. The default choice for shared desks, travel and anything regulated.
Filters the high-energy violet-blue band while keeping colour usable — for long shifts, night work and education fleets.
Kills reflected light instead of diffusing it. For studios and colour-critical work where a matte surface would soften the image.
A textured surface that gives a stylus drag and a pencil-on-paper sound. For iPad note-taking and illustration.
An OCA bond across the whole panel, with no air gap to ghost or reflect. Nothing to lift, lose or pocket once it's on.
Seats against the lid or the iPad's magnet array. Fully removable and re-seatable, with no adhesive touching the display.
Function gets the shortlist. Mounting closes the deal — because it determines whether a filter can come off a screen, and in a shared or regulated environment that's the whole point.
If a screen is shared, travelled with, or subject to a clean-desk policy, the filter has to lift off — and that rules out adhesive. If a screen sits in one place for three years and nobody should be able to walk off with the filter, permanent bond is the better engineering answer and gives you a cleaner optical path with no air gap.
We build all three mountings, so the answer comes from your deployment rather than from what happens to be on our shelf.
Seats against the MacBook lid or the iPad's magnet array. Re-seats cleanly after removal, and no adhesive ever touches the display coating. MacBook panels are cut with openings for the sleep sensor and camera, so a privacy filter doesn't keep your laptop awake.
An OCA bond across the full panel. No air gap, so no double-image or internal reflection — and nothing to lift, lose or pocket.
These are not marketing variants of the same film — each one works on a different principle, and each carries a trade-off you should know about before you order.
Microscopic vertical louvres inside the film. Light travelling straight through reaches the user; light leaving at an angle hits a louvre wall and is absorbed. The screen reads normally head-on and goes dark from the side.
Trade-off: a privacy filter necessarily reduces perceived brightness off-axis — that's the mechanism working, not a defect. In a bright open office, budget for a slightly higher screen brightness setting.
A selective filter that targets the high-energy violet-blue band at the short end of the visible spectrum, rather than dimming the whole display. Specified for long shifts, night work and education deployments.
Trade-off: filtering the short-wavelength end shifts colour temperature slightly warm. Fine for office and classroom work; worth checking against colour-critical tasks before a studio rollout.
A vacuum-deposited multi-layer stack that cancels reflected light by interference instead of scattering it. You lose the reflection without losing the sharpness — which is exactly the difference between AR and a standard matte surface.
Trade-off: AR costs more per square metre than matte, and it treats reflections rather than fingerprints. If glare from a window is the complaint, AR; if fingerprints are the complaint, matte.
A fine-textured surface that gives a stylus real drag and the sound of pencil on paper. For iPad note-taking, annotation and illustration, it's the difference between writing on glass and writing on paper.
Trade-off: any texture that creates drag will also wear a stylus nib faster than bare glass, and slightly softens fine detail. For illustration fleets, plan nib replacement into the running cost.
Six deployments we supply regularly, and what usually goes into each. Use it as a starting point — if your case sits between two rows, send it and we'll specify it properly.
| Deployment | Function | Mount | Why that combination |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile & field teamsTravel, client sites, cafés | Privacy | Magnetic | Goes on for the flight and the client meeting, comes off for the presentation. MacBook lid geometry, re-seats cleanly. |
| Client-facing & regulated workLegal, banking, public sector | Privacy | Magnetic | The screen is read with other people in the room and the machine goes home at night. Magnetic goes on for the meeting and comes off for the review, with no adhesive on the panel. |
| Retail & front counterPOS, check-in, patient intake | Privacy Blue light | Adhesive | Staff face the queue and the screen faces everyone behind them. A permanent bond means the filter can't be lifted, lost or pocketed at the end of a shift. |
| Field review & on-location editPhoto, video, site work | AR | Magnetic | Daylight on a laptop lid is the same problem as a window behind a studio screen. AR kills the reflection, and magnetic means it comes off before the machine goes in a bag. |
| Classroom & education fleetsiPad pools, 1:1 programmes | Paper feel Blue light | Magnetic | Devices move between students and get cleaned between classes. Magnetic comes off for cleaning and swaps; textured surface makes the stylus usable. |
| Design, photo & video studiosColour-critical, window-lit rooms | AR | Adhesive | Reflection off a window is the enemy, but matte would soften the image. AR kills the reflection and the OCA bond removes the air gap that would otherwise ghost. |
Everything structural — line, function, mounting, size coverage — is published below. Optical values differ per SKU and per production lot, so we supply them as measured figures with your quote rather than printing a range that was never tested.
| Parameter | What it governs | How we supply it |
|---|---|---|
| Device line & mount | Whether it fits, and whether it comes off | Published A / B · magnetic · full-adhesive |
| Size coverage | Fit across your estate | Published MacBook and iPad by device · non-standard sizes cut to order |
| Function | What the film does to light | Published Privacy · blue light · AR · paper feel |
| Louvre density & viewing angle | How far off-axis a privacy screen goes dark | Measured 60° off-axis cut-off · MacBook Neo privacy SKU |
| Blue-light filtering band | Which wavelengths are filtered, and by how much | Measured 21.3 % blocked @ 410 nm · iPad blue-light SKU |
| Reflectance & transmittance | Reflection killed, brightness retained (AR) | Measured Y 0.4 % reflectance · 95.9 % transmittance · MacBook Neo AR SKU |
| Surface hardness & coating stack | Scratch resistance and layer construction | Measured pencil 2H–4H by grade |
| Surface roughness & nib wear | Stylus feel and tip life (paper feel) | Measured 100° water contact angle · paper-feel SKU |
| Substrate & adhesive system | Base material and bond chemistry | Specified low-tack air-venting silicone OCA · full-adhesive only |
One running SKU per function/Mount combination, with the values we actually measure on it. If a parameter you need is missing here, it is supplied as a measured figure with the quote, not pulled from a generic datasheet.
Most suppliers can print a box. The harder half is packing a 400-unit school rollout so it arrives sorted by device model and ready to hand out. We do both from the same line.
A factory set up for phone film cannot necessarily hold tolerance across a 16-inch lid — the material behaves differently at that size and so does the tooling. Ours was built for it.
Dies and cutting programmes are made in our own tool room. A new panel size or a new device doesn't wait on an outside toolmaker, and a revision doesn't either.
Same substrate, same coating stack, same adhesive across reorders. On a fleet rollout that spans two years, the units you buy in year two behave like the ones from year one.
Five million pieces a month across 20+ export markets. A 3,000-unit education rollout is a normal order, not a special project.
You talk to the factory specifying the build, so answers about mounting, fit and substrate come from production rather than from a catalogue.
Same terms as every other HANGMO line. Published up front so you can cost a deal before you email us.
1,000 pieces per size or model. Mixed functions and mixed sizes are fine — the MOQ applies per line, not per order.
Sample packs are charged, and refunded against your first order. Free samples attract enquiries that never convert.
50% deposit to start production. 50% balance before shipment — we ship once the balance is received.
Counted from receipt of deposit: under 100K pcs ≈ 1 week · 100–200K pcs ≤ 2 weeks · 200–500K pcs ≈ 3 weeks.
Tell us where the screens are and what they're for. You'll get a specified recommendation with pricing — not a “please send more details”.
It comes down to whether the filter has to come off. Travel, shared devices, cleaning routines and anything you need to remove in front of a client suit magnetic — it lifts off and re-seats without touching the display. Fixed counters, kiosks and single-user machines suit a permanent OCA bond, which also gives the cleanest optics. Tell us the deployment and we'll specify it.
No. Every MacBook panel is cut with an opening at the sleep sensor and another at the camera, so closing the lid still puts the machine to sleep and the lens is never covered. The cut-outs are made on the tooling rather than trimmed by hand, so they land in the same place on every piece in the run.
Because they differ per SKU and per production lot, and a printed range is worthless to you in a tender. Every measured value — louvre density, viewing angle, filtering band, reflectance, hardness — comes with your quote as a datasheet. If you need one certified for a compliance document, we'll get it tested rather than estimated.
Sample packs are charged, and the cost is refunded against your first order. Free samples attract enquiries that never convert — charging keeps the process fair for serious buyers.
Yes, and it's often the more useful half. Bulk cartons sorted and labelled by screen size or device, unit-level asset tags or barcodes for fleet tracking, and fitting kits to your spec. An IT team can distribute straight from the carton.