Genius PenSketch 9X12, USB, With PhotoShop. 9x 12 working area for graphic design. Cordless wheel mouse and rubber-coated pen.

by Genius

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17 x 20 x 21 inches ; 5.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000COKZJK
• Item model number: 31100006101
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2004

Product Description

This tablet is right for you PenSketch 9x12 is another advanced digital pen tablet for designers, artists and professional users. The 9" x 12" working area is suitable for all types of productivity and more comfortable for long-time users. Using PenSketch 9x12, you can draw and illustrate effortlessly. While processing images, the performance is more precise and more rapid. It also includes programmable "Hot-Cell" area for the office and Internet. Use it with the pen device for super shortcuts.The cordless pen of PenSketch 9x12 features two buttons and 1024 level pressure sensitivity. While drawing with the digital pen, you can control all kinds of shapes and thickness easily. The two buttons of the pen can be programmed as the mouse left and right buttons. The pen- holder helps you store the digital pen and change the pen tip efficiently. In addition, the cordless mouse with scroll wheel gives you more convenience when working on the tablet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Genius Graphic Tablet, January 9, 2007

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Q. Mincey "Alucard/Dracula" (Fort Stewart, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genius PenSketch 9X12, USB, With PhotoShop. 9x 12 working area for graphic design. Cordless wheel mouse and rubber-coated pen. (Personal Computers)

First off- The Stylus pen conflicts with every thing. You can't hover over the Graphic Tablet without it using sticky-keys or auto-right clicking/selecting everything. I've been troubleshooting, hours on end.

The Sensitivity is flawed as well. Hovering the stylus over the tablet grants Extreme Pressure (1000+), but when actually touching the Tablet with Stylus reverts it to 0% pressure. What? The Installation program interface is cheap, and not user friendly. In an attempt to remedy this, apparently there were no options to change settings of the Tablet pressure sensory defaults.

Just a heads-up. I would not recommend this one. Might want to go for WACOM's Graphic Tablet. Apparently I get what I pay for. I can understand why it costs so much less than WACOM Tablet.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An unbiased review of the pensketch 9x12 Digital tablet of genius, September 14, 2008

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M. Guzman (Asia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genius PenSketch 9X12, USB, With PhotoShop. 9x 12 working area for graphic design. Cordless wheel mouse and rubber-coated pen. (Personal Computers)

To start of, I've been using this product for 6 months already and let me tell you what it comes with first. It comes with the tablet, pen stand, "mouse", some drivers, some software i didn't really use and replacement tips.

Now the pen and mouse require AAA batteries. I would not recommend using the mouse at all, it just sucks because it feels wrong when you use it and being "wireless" like the pen doesn't entirely help. When it comes pen, it isn't bad as what some reviewers have stated. I believe that the pen is a little on the sensitive side. Like if you slightly wiggle the pen, it somewhat detects it, so you have to be a little bit more precise. However, after a few months of using it, I eventually got used to. I can now draw, trace whatever I want of course that was due to practice. It's not like wacom tablets are that perfect, because it took as much time for me to get used to my graphire 3 tablet.

Now for my feedback on this device. The buttons on the pen suck. They're hard to press, especially the left click. It's a good thing the tip acts as left click. In my opinion, if you are a rich professional artist, who like to be able to erase stuff easily and don't want to have battery problems, go with a wacom, preferably the bigger ones. For the hobbyist who just wants to be able to write and draw on a computer, its good enough with practice and make sure you hide your replacement tips well. So far, my the tip hasn't been sanded down yet.

I give this product a four for my purposes, namely drawing some non major stuff, writing and tracing on macromedia flash and photoshop.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not professional, May 1, 2007

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Ankur Verma (New Delhi, Delhi India) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genius PenSketch 9X12, USB, With PhotoShop. 9x 12 working area for graphic design. Cordless wheel mouse and rubber-coated pen. (Personal Computers)

Its cheap ! But if a good tablet is critical to your work go for Wacom ones. I didnt want to spend too much, coz I'm not a professional artist. This tablet would be bad decision if you know that you need a tablet. I didnt know, I wanted to experiment and for that purpose its good. But a better option would be to ask someone who knew. You can go for that option coz now I KNOW and I suggest that its not good enough for professionals.

Its pen is jittery so is its mouse, being an artist the precision that you look for is simply missing.

Every thing else is OK, like it worked with little work required on my part after connecting it to the computer.