#interactive pen display

Wacom Intuos Photo Pen Display – DCInfrastructure.co.in

Buy Wacom Intuos Photo Pen Display at best prices on DCInfrastructure. It includes Wacom’s leading pen & touch tablet technology, downloadable creative software and online training. 

FINALLY!!!!! THE FIRST DIGITAL ART (that is not just a coloring) I DID SINCE 6 YEARS AGO!!!!!

You can see that there are a lot of mistakes but I understand that practice and patience are the key to achieve "perfection"!! Also I think that this work is a lot better than the ones I did with a tablet so I guess I am indeed a visual person, I need to align my eyes with the surfice I'm drawing in or else the illustration will turn into a disaster.

I love it! The particular model is a Monoprice 19-inch Interactive Pen Display, which is a spunky, efficient, and (not-so-)lil’ guy that only costs $397.58 USD. Oooh….

Depending on where you look it up online, it can have some mixed reviews, but the one that won me over was by Frenden, a digital artist whose taste in equipment I’ve trusted before and not been disappointed by. Also worth noting: there are all kinds of warnings about the Monoprice’s drivers being screwed up and needing updating, but since the tablet returned to the market after being sold out, I’ve found the driver software they’ve packaged with it to be in perfect working order. Either I’m just lucky or they actually listened to complaints and updated it on the manufacturer level.

So, without rattling on and on, here’s my short-list of Pros and Cons:

Pros:

NO LAG. I can’t stress enough how much lag bugs the crap out of me, so the fact this tablet has none at all could be the only “pro” for all I care.

Cheaper than your average bear. Not that the price is anything to sneeze at, but it’s a steal for this sort of equipment.

Easy to Position. We originally planned on getting a mounting arm to use this, but I found its attached kickstand to be perfectly handy for how I’m used to drawing.

Pen. The pen is lightweight without being flimsy and feels very pleasant to work with. It has two side buttons that you can program to behave like whatever mouse clicks you need, and you can easily adjust the pressure sensitivity.

Cons:

Doesn’t play well with others. This is our first tablet monitor, so I don’t know if this is model-specific, but it really doesn’t get along with a second monitor being turned on. Just leave that off.

Small viewing angle. You’re really only going to get perfect color rendering by sitting at a very certain angle. Expect to adjust the monitor or your body pretty frequently (maybe a good posture incentive?).

Very Minimal Buttons. Take this as a pro or a con, it’s a matter of personal preference and, again, this is my first tablet monitor so it might be perfectly ordinary. I miss having some customizable hotkeys at a finger’s reach, but it’s nothing I would kick it out of bed over.

All in all, I’m extremely happy we have this tablet monitor and don’t feel any remorse about not going with the standard Cintiq. As a last bit of insight, we previously filmed a short clip of the tablet in action, which you can find right here.

There has been a lot of installing/uninstalling shennanigans over the last 24hrs.

My brain hurts.

Having discovered that there might have been a virus on my laptop, I took the (typically) drastic step of doing a full reinstall of my Windows 7 OS to see if I could get the Monoprice screen working.

I've wasted many many hours of my life over the years doing reinstalls of Windows operating systems, and doing this wasn't a decision I made lightly. In all honesty, it needed to be done anyway, there had been a few weird anomilies that had been cropping up with things on my lappy for a while which weren't normal and made me suspect there was something lurking within, and it was this morning whilst writing the first review and my typing cursor kept leaping back to other points in the document that made me decide I ought to give a reinstall a try.

So that's what I did. Luckily my laptop came with one of those secret areas on the hard drive and a recovery tool so it was actually quite painless to do for a change with no issues whatsoever. I was shockingly back up and running within the hour.

Once I was all installed (and protected from internetrical germs) I carried out a thorough search on the laptop to check anything tablet or pointing device related was removed or disabled and then I reinstalled the Monoprice screen. Then I reinstalled Photoshop etc.

Aaaaaand... it worked?!

Yes, that's right - it worked!

HOORAY!

Buuuuut.... bizarrely, I still can't calibrate the screen. I can carry out the calibration test, but once it's done the cursor restricts itself to a small area. Turning calibration off withing the Monoprice settings makes it work fine. It actually seems pretty well calibrated already.

Anyway, the fact that it was now working was exciting and it was time to take it for a proper test drive.

Here are my findings....

In Photoshop, everything seems to work as close to perfectly as I'd expect, save for the odd occassion when the cursor has a little hissy fit and decides it either wants to pile on the pressure giving your line a whole bunch of fatness (or a big mess) or drop random markings. You have to be on the ball because if you miss one when it happens it can be a pain having to undo undo undo etc.

Having said that, it didn't happen very often, and the biggest thing I've found is that things only seem to go a bit wonky when my system is trying to do other things, so for example, I can't have an internet browser open at the same time as drawing (really annoying but not the end of the world I guess) - it seems like it literally has to be the only thing going on.

I noticed that if my laptop started doing anything in the background it would cause issues with the screen, the cursor would either jitter, splodge, do the straightest line known to man, or just stop working - in fact, a few times it completely stopped and I had to come out of Photoshop and restart. I also had to stop my dropbox from synching whilst I was using the screen.

Surely I shouldn't be having these kinds of issues with a dual core system with 8GB RAM?!

At one point it even blue screened, but I'm not sure exactly what caused it to do that.

All those issues aside (yes, let's forget all that stuff for now) when the screen was working, it worked well, and was actually really nice to use - I'm glad I can finally take a deep breath and say that.

The pressure sensitivity was great, and using Frenden's brushes was super sweet. Admittedly, I've got a bit of a learning curve to adjust to in terms of the fact I'm not used to drawing on a screen yet and find my palm causes a lot of the crappy lines I was getting because it kept getting stuck on the glass, but that just means I need to adjust the way I hold the pen and try to avoid my hand being on the screen itself.

It's a little frustrating that it has to be set to the only screen you can use, apparently this isn't the case with Macs though. Bloody Macs, why do they always get favoured over everything else?

I'm not buying a Mac. End of.

So to round it up, I think this screen will be rather splendid once I figure out if using it on a more powerful system will resolve the issues I'm jabbering on about above. As it stands, with tonights "successes", I can reluctantly say that I think it was worth the money I paid for it (I say that with my teeth gritted) and if these issues are ironed out I might even go as far as recommending it.

Still a bit baffled as to why the calibration doesn't work though, it seems a bit nuts to me, and Frenden has confirmed that he never had the issue on all the things he's tested it on. Maybe my screen is faulty afterall? I really hope not though, if it ends up that I have to return it, I am fairly sure I'll just ask for a refund rather than a new screen - it's all too much hassle.

I'll be buying a Huion 610 Pro anyway soon, so maybe I'll just stick with a lablet for now (that's what I call the lap tablets!) until these Cintiq alternatives have grown and evolved a bit.

If you’re looking for something small and portable that you can see what you’re drawing on, it’s fine, it works. However, the viewing angle is garbage, there’s practically no stand so you’ll be forced to hunch over the damn thing to see anything, the screen resolution is smaller than a thumbnail from Geocities, and the build quality is cheap. The USB cable will die on you, the drawable edges will eventually get smaller, and it’ll break. I got a replacement for my first model, and the second one didn’t have the same problems as the original but now has tons of green pixels on the screen that would flicker unless I kept it at the dimmest setting.

That said, I haven’t asked for a replacement yet because I’m still using it. Just know that it’s a cheap product.

On the other hand, for just a little bit more you can get a Monoprice interactive pen display which has some problems of its own but I think is a much better product. It’s not portable though, but the DP10U’s viewing angle is so garbage anyway that having a built in stand for the Monoprice display makes it a much better option. Also the Monoprice’s screen resolution is about twice as big, which is really nice.