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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2022
Ok so I've used tablets for years but this is my first graphics tablet and honestly I really really love it.
I'd been wanting a graphics tablet for years but hadn't been able to afford one until recently, and with my regular tablet starting to break down I decided to take the plunge and get one. I chose this one after looking at quite a few options. I picked it because of the price point, what I'd heard about xp-pens customer service and quality, and also I don't have a large amount of desk space. the tablet's small enough for me while not being so small it'd be difficult to use my programs. Also…it's pink, which is one of my favourite colours.
ignore the sticker, I left the protective film on until my screen protector comes in cos wear and tear happens with pretty much every tablet, it's just easier to miss cos with regular tablets there's no screen or light coming through to highlight the scratches, so making sure you have screen protectors and changing them out when you need to is important.
I've included pics of the tablet program, and the customization options because that was my major worry. A lot of tablet programs and drivers are clunky, this one though is not. Frankly it's been one of the best ones I've dealt with over the years, super intuitive, and easy to use. It was easy to customize my hotkeys, and I can also save my hotkeys specific to each program which is SO NICE. I work in several different programs and tested this with affinity photo and affinity designer, as well as paint tool sai, Blender, and Krita, and all worked well. Being able to tailor the hotkeys for each program makes workflow a lot smoother.
Once I downloaded the driver, installed, and restarted, it didn't take long at all to get started at all. I work on a Windows 10 PC and when you first open it up the tablet mirrors your screen, and you can just get started working from there. However you can also set it up as a second monitor, which is what I did, by going into the display settings and hitting detect. Once it registers the tablet as a second monitor, you can change it from mirror mode to extended, which lets you have your program open on the tablet screen exclusively while freeing up your main monitor for things like internet, or in my case my refs are on my main screen so I can just look up when I draw. It makes life a lot easier. Keep in mind the second monitor setup is still active even though the tablet is turned off, just in case you're wondering where your mouse is.
Calibrating was really easy, I haven't had any issue with parallax but I also don't dot the pen straight down vertically. When calibrating I hold the pen the way I would when painting, and tap the crosshairs with the tablet at the angle I'd use to work. It has several automatic screen temperature options for the colours and one of them matches my screen almost perfectly so I didn't have to mess with calibrating the screen colours. However it does have rgb and brightness and contrast sliders for you do do this if you need to, which is super helpful.
For the physical connectors I have it plugged in with the HDMI USB cord it came with. I tried using it without plugging the second USB into a plug but there was some flickering because my laptop didn't have enough power to supply the screen consistently, which is normal, and I expected it cos I have a lot of peripherals plugged in to my PC. It's the same reason why you can't use a lot of USB hubs without an external power source or things start to fail. Your computer only has so much wattage to give, so I used the additional included extension cable and plugged it into an actual plug. After that it was fine and theres been no more flickering since.
All in all It's been pretty good, we'll see if I need to change my review in time but So far I'm pretty happy with it.
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2023
Great value with XP-PEN, you can pay more to get way more
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2023
This 12 inch xp pen tablet came with a small blemish, but in all fairness, I paid a ridiculously low price compared to other tablets. But oops it was supposed to be a valentine's gift. I had the great fortune to notice the 16 inch version was at a greater sale, so I got that one for her and kept the 12. The 16 was perfect. I can't see the blemish on the 12 while in use, and honestly, it's going to develop some wear and tear thru use anyway. The screen is brilliant and the texture is perfect.
I'm running the latest iOS on a 2018 Mac mini i7. There have been zero issues with the "other big name brand" tablet while simultaneously using the XP. The only hiccup I've run into is learning to scale the screen right (on her PC) before calibrating the pen. I am a Mac, not a PC.
I found that using a quality usbc cable connected to the thunderbolt ports on my Mac mini worked best. HDMI was already in use for my main display. The HDMI port in a peripheral I was using for my iPad was not sufficient either- there seemed to be some winking. I can't recommend using USB power from the same peripheral that you have an HDMI adapted. Plug in as direct to your computer as possible.
Configuring hot keys in the XP Pen driver was not as pleasant as it could be, or at least compared to the big name tablet. It was more of a learning process than it needed to be.
If I were to pay more money to get a better product, it'd have to be for a 4k touch screen and at least 16 inches- which I believe XP-PEN makes. Maybe for XP-Mas?
The only tool function I can't get with XP Pen is barrel rotation. I make use of this in many of my paintstorm brushes on that big brand name tablet. Not seeing any evidence that brand name is updating the barrel rotation pen any time soon. Sad to see the dwindling support of a function that is second nature on any real brush. With all these newly affordable apps and tablets we should really be seeing more diversity of tools. Airbrush? 3D Sculpt mouse? Rotary dial? Anyway- no one is making these anymore. The XP-Pen is solid for what it does and at a great price. Can't beat that.
Top reviews from other countries
Un perifico muy útil, para un artista
Reviewed in Mexico on January 4, 2025
Una gran tableta de dibujo
Reviewed in Mexico on September 20, 2023
Una gran tableta de dibujo
Reviewed in Mexico on September 20, 2023
Es muy cómoda, el tacto de la pluma con la pantalla es suave. Directo, fácil de usar, tal vez el cableado triple es lo único incómodo del producto pero fuera de eso es increíble y el tamaño de la pantalla es excelente, perfecto para obtener mejor detalle. Casi como si dibujaras en papel. Realmente estoy satisfecho. Tiene todo lo necesario. 👍💚
Big, good and great first experience!
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2023
Big, good and great first experience!
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2023
This was my first acquisition of a drawing tablet with screen, I used to draw in a very small screenless wacom tablet, and putting my hands in one of these for the first time is an amazing experience.
I have made huge research and compared many tablets of multiple brands (Wacom, Huion and XP-PEN), and after thoroughly comparing all of them, I decided to buy this one. It didn't disappoint me in any aspect: Screen quality is great, color range is absurdly good, pen feeling is also very good (people say it's very light and sometimes slippery, but has a decent weight), it's very easy to use and easy to set up the shortcuts!
The only thing that I had trouble with was making the connection with the computer, but it was completely my mistake of plugging the cable in the wrong USB-C entrance, so make sure to plug in the right one before thinking it's broken hahaha.
Overall, I absolutely recommend this tablet, if you don't feel like having a screen with a bigger resolution (this one is 1920×1080), I'd say go for it. I didn't test drawing with photoshop (cuz adobe is lame fr) but worked just fine with Clip Studio Paint. If you never had a screen tablet before, you won't miss anything, because this one provided me with all the necessary assets (it even comes with a drawing glove!)
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