Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet
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- Battery-free, ergonomic pen with two programmable switches
- Includes Corel Painter Essentials 4.0 (Win and Mac) for creating natural media art and turning photos into paintings
- Easy USB connection
- Interactive tutorial helps you make the most of your Bamboo
Product Description
Bamboo Pen turns your computer into the ultimate editing tool and gives you the ability to paint, draw, edit, and personalize your documents with handwritten notes, sketches, and doodles. The ergonomically-designed pen fits comfortably in your hand, and the tablet’s textured work surface makes you feel like you’re working with a pen on paper. Bamboo Pen is a smart solution for anyone who strives for clear, visual communication. Write in digital ink, mark up docu… More >>
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Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet
I cannot say how good this product is, as I never recieved it. Bought from Amazon it has yet to reach my doorstep.
Rating: 1 / 5
After having to return the touch tablet, realizing that you CANNOT use a pen on it; I FINALLY got my pen and tablet in the mail.
Installed the discs like directions instructed and big surprise, the pen doesn’t work. Oh, it did for about 2 seconds, before giving up. Tried calling tech support but their hours are less than the people at the bank. Thanks for nothin’ wacom
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve played around with this device for a couple of days. The installation took longer than I thought it would; had to restart the computer in order for my PC to finally recognize it, but that may have been because I had it plugged into a USB hub (didn’t work) instead of directly to a USB port (worked).
The device roughly works like a mouse, but you use a pen to move along the surface of a pad, the useable surface of which is about 6″ X 4″. You do not actually place the pen on the surface, but keep it slightly above, so that as you move the pen you watch the cursor move along your screen in tandem. When you find a place you want to “left click,” you tap the pen down on the pad. To double click, you tap twice. To drag an item, you hold the tip to the pad and slide it along. To duplicate the right click of a mouse, you press a button on the pen while the cursor is in position and the same menu you would normally see with a right mouse click appears on your screen. You have to be careful as you can press this button accidentally. The pen does not require batteries and it has no cord. You can also use your finger on the pad instead of the pen, but not both at the same time. You can also trade off between your mouse and the pen, but again, you cannot use them both at the same time.
The tutorial is fairly basic and does not tell you much, but it does give you the elementary uses of the pen and pad. At the end, it is supposed to take you to a screen on the web (their home page) to fill out a survey, but the US portion (for me) would never load, only Europe. When I did manage to connect to their web site for the US, this particular model (CTL 460) was not to be found. The tutorial tells you that for other useful applications, you need to check out their web site for other software support. I could never locate this information, and trying to find anything at all on all of the other great features it is supposed to have is somewhat difficult when you cannot even locate the model number.
What I was hoping the pen would allow me to do is to easily scribble notes, etc on PowerPoint slides, Word documents, or even within emails, but I’ve yet to figure out how to do this. All it did was continue to move the cursor around. Maybe it requires the additional software I could never locate. It does come with Corel Painter Essentials software, which I don’t see using for any of the applications I need, but it might be fun for the kids to play around with if they want to paint colors on the screen or try to draw something.
Lastly, the double click feature has not worked very well. When I try to open an email within Outlook, for example, where I would normally double click the mouse, I tap the pad twice with the pen and…..nothing. Eventually I end up reverting back to my mouse for navigating my PC. In the tutorial, they state that it will do everything a mouse will do, and if it seems awkward at first (which it certainly does), keep practicing and you will get used to it. I guess the question is, if it does not really do much more than a mouse…why should I keep practicing with this device when I can just reach for my mouse? By the time I figure out how to do what I want to do, I could have used my mouse and been long gone.
The bottom line is, I just don’t really see any great value added to my every day PC activity with the Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought a Bamboo Pen solely to make notes and handwritten comments on MS Office XP. Prior to buying it, I read the Wacom site and many reviews on the product and in nowhere I found that the inking functionality would work ONLY on Windows Vista and Office 2007. Since I was unable to make the digital ink work on my XP environment, I read the manual and found out the truth. It is very disapponting and I feel deceived! Is there a way to make the inking thing work on MS Office XP? I have already downloaded the newest drive and it was no help. If I cannot make it work, I will definetely return this useless device! I am no artist, I do not want a tablet for drawing purposes!
UPDATE: Below is the super useful answer of a Wacom technical staff member
I’m sorry about the inadequacy of information on our website regarding what you would like to use the tablet to do. Unfortunately because the tablet is just an input device like your keyboard and your mouse, it relies on the features of other programs to work with those programs. For instance if you wanted to draw with your mouse or your pen you would need to open a program that has a drawing tool like a paint brush or a pencil that allows you to draw. Office 2007 is the first version of Office to offer such a tool for use with signing or annotating directly onto Office documents. Because this new version of Office and newer versions of Windows have these features built into them, there is a very small market for extra software to enable the same functions. However there is a great program called Pen Office ([...]) that works as an add on for your current office software to provide you with all of the same tools you would have with Microsoft’s newer software, and it happens to be the program that we all use here. They have a free trial on their website and if you happen to like it I believe that it’s only $50, which is certainly cheaper than upgrading. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you use Linux, do NOT get this tablet. Unlike pretty much every other Wacom tablet, this one will not work without a lot of patching to the wacom driver, hal, and possibly X (I haven’t gotten it working yet). All their new tablets don’t work, whereas older ones (including TabletPCs) work out of the box. It seems to work in a Windows virtual machine, but there is no mouse cursor so you don’t know where it is until you “click”…people might have better luck if they don’t have any of the guest additions tools installed.
Rating: 2 / 5