Customer Reviews

Wacom Intuos Pen (GP300E)

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If you have a Wacom Intuos tablet and have worn out your original pen, fear not, the Wacom Intuos Pen GP300E works as advertised. It is an exact replacement, including pen holder, and a lot cheaper that buying a new tablet. The delivery time was quicker that advertised and I was back using my 6x9 in no time.

Just great help in my day by day work ... Love it when using photoshop ..
Drawing masks around the objects much better then with the mouse ... Planning to draw some pictures in Photoshop in the future...
Intuos pen and tablet is a gret help

Apart from the pen being a bit light, this is an excellent product. I wish Wacom would come out with an aluminium or a heavier pen, but you cant really complain for the price. I bought this as a replacement pen, and have had no problems with it.

Where did I put my Wacom Pen? I can't function without it!

Seriously, I love my Wacom tablet and pen! It is well worth the price for the artist to be able to draw with something that simulates the feel of a pencil, brush, pen, crayon, ect. Trying to draw on the computer using a mouse is a drag!

The GP300E Wacom Intuos pen works perfectly with my extremely-old original-Intuos 9x12 tablet.

Before I bought this pen, I'd been concerned that the pen might not work on my system because my tablet is so old (mine is not an Intuos2, nor Intuos3, but rather just a plain ol' Intuos before they started adding numbers to them) but I'm happy to report that the pen works great - the System immediately recognized it as a "new tool" and I opened the Wacom control panel (it was already installed - the Wacom software comes with the *tablet*, not the pen) and I set its prefs the way I like them, and it's working perfectly.

The reason I bought this pen, is because I had somehow lost all but one of my old Wacom pens while moving to a new residence last year.

I like to use *several* different Wacom pens on the same Wacom tablet, because in *some* graphics apps (like Corel Painter, see footnote below) the app remembers different Tool settings for each different pen, which makes it quick and easy to switch between tools without having to use menus or palettes or keyboard-shortcuts or whatever.

This GP300E pen that I just bought, came in its original new factory box. In addition to the pen, the box included the usual pen-holder (nicely designed although I never use the holders), spare nibs (make sure you *keep* these - you will need them someday/year if you do a lot of graphics editing which eventually wears down the nib), and the usual three little color-coded stick-on label-thingies which I also don't use although I keep them around in case I change my mind and want to use them later. :)

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Footnote:
* I'm using the extremely ancient Corel Painter 6 on classic Mac (don't laugh, at least it's all paid-off and I don't owe any money on it, and it still works fine). One would presume that more-modern versions of Corel Painter also have this same tool-remembering functionality with Wacom pens, although I haven't had opportunity to personally verify this with *modern* versions of Corel Painter. As to *other* apps, I can attest to the fact that ancient Adobe Photoshop 5.0.2 (Mac version) does not have this pen/tool *switching* capability, although Photoshop 5.0.2 still works fine using only one pen, and of course it supports pressure-sensitivity as one would expect. I have no experience with modern/recent versions of Photoshop.

I needed to replace my pen that was broke and this did it for me.

I orginally ordered the new Wacom 3 Intuos pen but it didn't work for my older graphics tablet. This pen does work on the older model tablet.