Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Paper Edition review
Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Paper Edition: Professional Drawing Tablet with Live Drawing Option
The ability to draw on real paper in whatever quality and different format certainly makes a zest of the Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Paper Edition review. However, that’s a secondary option, which would be useless without high-class sensitivity, large resolution, fast PC mirroring, and other values of the pro drawing tablet.
The tablet can be used by artists, digital artists, animation professionals, illustrators. Editors will also estimate the accuracy of mapping and a high range of measurements for different editing tools and parameters.
While the tablet is highly versatile in both working options and connectivity, it doesn’t have its own screen, which can make a doubt point for some users. Still, the price of this model isn’t high for the drawing tablet of the pro level.
Setup
The setup of Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Paper Edition is similar to other Wacom models and requires the installation of drivers and adjustment of general and software-bound settings. The addition to this tablet is the Ink Space app necessary for transmitting the ink-drawn images into the digital shape.
Through the control panel, the tablet can be easily customized to your liking. Left- or right-handed orientation, assigning Express Keys and Touch Ring functions for general browsing and scrolling and for the particular app is a no brainer. For drawing on paper, there are 10 sheets of paper supplied and a special ball ink pen by Wacom. In order to start drawing live, simply fix the paper on the drawing area with the supplied clip and start your sketch.
Features
This tablet is able to transmit pictures on the paper onto the screen through Ink Space utility. Then they can be used in various apps including Photoshop, Illustrator, ArtStudio, etc. It’s also compatible with the Vector where the sketch can be zoomed and further worked out. However, the negative is the single format of lines transmission. No matter what thickness they have on a real paper, the initial transmitted digital image will feature the same medium-thick lines.
As the editing tool, the tablet is highly versatile and handy. It passes seamlessly from pen to the Multi-Touch functionality, the latter being fully customizable and a lot of fun to use. Swipe with two fingers scrolling the images, zoom in and out, change tool and image parameters, e.g. shadiness, with simple intuitive finger touch.
The Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Paper Edition specs show 8120 levels of pen sensitivity, within which the pen can be tuned for a particular task or general performance. The tablet has a good resolution of more than 5000 lines per pixel providing a high level of detail, for coloring, drawing, and editing.
Design
The tablet’s design is almost the same as the Wacom Intuos Pro Medium model. It has the same big active area and smart LED lighting. The included Touch Ring is helpful for fluent changing of parameters like gradient percentage, blacks and whites content, etc. The four express keys can also be set for different parameters and save time, otherwise needed to reach via the keyboard. The pen stand and supplied the nibs are also the same. The difference is in the supplied paper clip, which is quite stiff and requires an effort to be put on and off.
Conclusion
The Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Paper Edition is a versatile drawing tablet letting draw both digitally and on real paper. Though the latter functionality isn’t flawless, it works well for sketches, illustrating, and some editing applications. The overall performance and build are solid, with high sensitivity range and large screen resolution supported by the fast lagless performance.