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With Wacom being the leader in pen display technology, a competitive challenger that can meet the quality of the standard at a more agreeable price has been desperately needed for years. Those of us who adopted pen tablets in the ‘90s can remember forking out hundreds for the smallest Wacom Graphire, only to be envious of the pen displays the few could afford. Today, everyone is adding the pen input options from Asus Zen books to Lenovo, Microsoft and even Apple's iPad Pro. But the old leader has always dominated the dedicated desktop pen display: Wacom. Monoprice's new 22 Inch pen display is a contender that delivers battery free EMR pen technology on a clear and responsive display. The Pen Display comes with an easel style stand pre-mounted. The display sits with the bottom bezel nearly flush to the table surface. The back mount supports VESA Standard and Monoprice has several monitor stands its suggest for those who want something a bit higher or with more flexible positions. For those that enjoy working more horizontally, the quick release latch, on the back is easily accessible and allows angles from nearly vertical to nearly horizontal. The stand is sturdy enough with the Rubber footpads to allow for little to no movement or vibration while working, even with a heavy hand. Construction feel sturdy but not oversized or heavy. The overall foot print on your table is the size expected of any equivalent monitor and the lightweight and integrated stand allows for easy mobility for those who want to be able to carry their pen display with them. Cable mounting is on the left side facing the screen. You will find an HDMI, DVI and VGA for Video-In connections, a required USB and power port. For my testing, I used both DVI and HDMI and found both Mac and PC had no problem connecting, even when using a displayPort/Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter. The location of the connection ports do cause cables to stick out a bit from the left side but it is a necessity for the function of repositioning the display without binding. Monitor Controls found on the right side facing the screen just behind the bezel provide basic but ample controls for color, saturation, and brightness. Provided with this sample is the Art Pen, an ergonomic multi-button pen with 2 buttons, a rear eraser and the pen tip. As shown below it sizes up just barely smaller then the length of the Wacom Cintiq Pen and roughly the same width with the triangle barrel design. The comfort of this pen took a little getting used to but soon felt very natural and it was easier to distinguish button location than with the Wacom pens. The pen tip has a nice firm but flexible feel like a 2B pencil and the glass of this pen display allows it to Glide across without streaking, screeching or sticking. Screen resolution of the factory sample was excellent for 1080p, although this sample only had a color accuracy of 72% Adobe RGB, Monoprice is working for production to have a higher color accuracy. Viewable angles on this model are excellent without color shifting even at near horizontal angles: very Impressive quality for an MVA LCD. Testing Testing was done on 5 different configurations and operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (running on a Surface Pro), Mac OSX Mavericks and Mac OSX El Capitan Driver installation Alpha drivers where provided at time of testing and I found Windows 7 and 8.1 to have no problem but Windows 10 on a Surface Pro was currently incompatible. This could have been caused by a driver error between built in tablet computer and display. Final drivers may resolve this. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The Monoprice driver is likely incompatible with the Surface Pro's wintab driver.) Windows Drivers support calibration, pressure and tilt controls. Calibration is recommended immediately after install, as well as adjusting the pressure sensitivity. Some functions of pressure and tilt in different applications will be covered later. Mac OsX Mavericks and El Capitan both installed drivers very easily and functioned perfectly, but current Mac drivers showed very little controls for tilt and pressure controls. However, pressure sensitivity worked perfectly on Mac OS but had no perceivable controls or effect on tilt. Pen tip accuracy and response is on par with Wacom with a generous hover space of ½” and no offsetting in any of the corners. In both Windows and Mac, no lag could be detected in basic OS functions. Adobe Photoshop functioned with great pressure sensitivity and accuracy.Read full review
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The first one came with a broken screen. I returned it. But the second one has been glitchy on both the PC and Mac, and is un-useable.
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It arrived in 5 days, set up fine. Had some driver issues but a using the latest drivers helped. Pen feels ok, I like the erase. I put on a diy screen protector film. Only thing I don't like is the software that comes with it. It won't let me set the second pen button to a custom key binding. And it's a little extra sensitive for my taste. All in all I think it's great for the money when compared to everything else on the market. I think I might have wanted to spend a little more and find one with multi-touch though. It would double the screens effectiveness when not drawing.
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These tablets are tempting because of the low price but the software compatibility is hit or miss. It may just work fine if you are lucky or you ma have a nightmare wasting days and weeks trying to resolves compatibility issues with hardware, operating system, etc. The frustration, time lost, and shipping cost of this unit back to China, makes t not worth it. These tablets are developed by a tiny staff of developers so support is poor. Again buying such a unit is hit or miss. I would recommend saving up a few extra dollars to invest in a Wacom. Their design, testing, support, will give you peace of mind so that you can focus that energy back into your art.
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It just work with monitor identifier number 1 does not work in multiple display with nvidia drivers
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