Product Description

Wacom BAMBOO PEN TOUCH ENGLISH VERSION CTH460EN Mice Graphics Tablets

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #641 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Wacom
• Model: WACCTH460EN
• Released on: 2009-09-24
• Platform: Windows XP
• Dimensions: .79 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
With the new Bamboo, Wacom is introducing the first tablet combining multi-touch functionality and pen tablet technology in a single device

It's sleek, stylish black design enables left- and right-handed use, and comfortable details such as the integrated pen holder and customisable ExpressKeys instantly ease your working life

A simple tap of the finger will select an icon, open a menu or start an application. And with two fingers you can easily rotate an image or document, flip through a presentation, scroll through a blog or a spreadsheet or zoom in and out of a website or photo. Whether by pen or by finger: your Bamboo invites you to share digital content.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Product
This is the first graphics tablet I have ever bought, and its great so far.
I was excited to find it was delivered very quickly indeed despite the so called royal mail strike and it was amazon super saver delivery. Its so nice and is a breeze to use after 10 mins.

The packaging is nice and protects well.

The tablet itself is a good size, not too big or too small.

At one point during use of the product just after i got it out and started experimenting, It occured to me that if it went by pen and your fingers, while drawing with the pen your fingers might keep interfering with the cursor. Luckily Wacom know this and whenever the pen is close to the table, the pen takes prioty. Happy to find that out :)

Would give 4/5 for Size
5/5 for Style
5/5 for ease of use
3/5 for accessorys (extra nibs and pen holder attached to tablet)
5/5 for precission

Overall 5/5

Excellent grahics kit
Firstly, well done Amazon on an excellent service and super quick delivery. The Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch Tablet is excellent value for money in its price range for the purposes of sketching, creating art work, painting,creating animations, photo touch-ups and text/signature annotation etc. Providing of course that the user has the appropriate software to carry out these tasks. Of course ,if you are looking to use a pen and tablet for high-end professional applications, then you need to pay a lot more. Presented in excellent packaging, the box contains the tablet, pen, spare nibs, nib extractor, quick guide and driver CD. I would advise to download the latest drivers for your operating system from the Wacom web site as there have been some improvements since the CD was produced. The tablet is a very pleasing design which only takes up approx 10.5 x 7 inches on the desk including the pen holder. It can be used for either left or right handed operation. The active area of the tablet is scaled to the size of your monitor, so every corner of the screen can be accessed. The tablet has 4 buttons that can be customised to your needs. The pen feels very natural and very precise and has an eraser. When you register your tablet at Wacom, you can download free mini applets to get you started. From personal experience the kit works very well with Corel Painter Essentials 4 and Corel Paintshop Pro Photo X2. I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 with a USB Optical Mouse and PS2 Keyboard which co-exist with the Wacom tablet with no ill-effects. A word of warning though. Plug the Wacom tablet into a free USB port on your PC proper. I intially plugged mine into a 4 port USB Hub and the tablet went crazy, opening applications without me touching anything and when I surfed the web, all sorts of strange things happened.
Also, if you have a wireless router on your desk, keep it as far away as possible from the tablet and its USB cable as this again can cause interference. Some LCD high-frequency monitors can also cause interference if the tablet is too close. Move the tablet away or reduce the monitors refresh rate or resolution. Access the Bamboo Properties to play around with the pen and tablet settings to suit your needs. Apart from the little niggles mentioned above, this is an excellent product which I can highly recommend for both novice and intermediate users.

Finally!!!!!
Finally I can talk about this product. I received my tablet about 2 weeks ago. This was a speedy service as I received it the following day after placing order. Got it out of the box (well packaged by Amazon) and I must say that it looked good. Small & flat with beautiful clean lines. It was just the size I wanted for a tablet as it occupies just a small part of my desk. I have it permanently on the desk now. I also like that the pen has it's own place when not using it. A good thing as I don't want to go looking for the pen when I need to use the tablet.

So, out of the box, first thing is to test how it works. Tested it on Corel painter and it worked well. I really like the feel of the drawing area as it's made to feel like you are actually drawing on real paper. Checked the sensitivity and it is ok with Corel.

Now to Photoshop. That did not work well. I felt it was too sensitive and did not respond well. I could not drill down into photoshop tools because the pen was too sensitive and intead of opening the buttons, it just formed a ring when you tried to click on the drill down menu. That was a problem. Tried to adjust the settings but no joy. So I finally went on to Bamboo website to see if anybody had the same issues. You see, I have Windows 7 and the intuos3 I had previously did not install well. But I wasn't going to give up on the Bamboo. Low & behold, others had the same issue with windows 7 and a Wacom representative explained how to overcome it. I did that, and my pen is behaving perfectly. So please checkout the Bamboo forums for problems associated with your tablet. Solutions may be there.

Now for the touch aspect. I have not used much of this but the little I have it feels like using the pad on a laptop except bigger space. It's brilliant if you are after using it in place of a mouse to open files etc. I think it's ok for this but I don't see why anybody should buy the Bamboo touch at the price marketed when you can have the pen & touch at just a little bit more or the Bamboo Pen at a little less.

The Pen & Touch has 1024 pressure level, same as the intous3. The Bamboo Pen only has 512 while the Bamboo touch has none. Massive difference.

The Bamboo Pen & touch works well & it's highly recommended.