XP-Pen gave me a promotion code to share, so if you’re interested in this tablet, make sure you use the code to save some money! Make sure you use the 1 year warranty (18 months if you bought it off the official XP-Pen site) if yours breaks within the first year. If the installer doesn’t prompt you to restart your computer after it finishes, I wholeheartedly suggest restarting your computer anyways to allow Windows to properly update the files necessary for the driver to run smoothly.

The XP-Pen Artist 12 Pro drawing tablet supports up to 60 degrees of tilt function, so now you don't need to adjust the brush direction in the software over and over again.

With that said, personally, I have never found the shortcut keys on Huion or XP-Pen’s pen displays to be enough for me. However, others say that the pen nibs wear out way too easily, the drivers can be a little wonky, and the stylus feels a bit cheap. In terms of the lightest pen pressure, I could get somewhat thin lines with the 300px IAF test pen, but when using a 300px.

As a frustrated illustrator, it has always been my dream to have my own pen display tablet because years ago I was fascinated about the idea you could draw on a monitor as if you were drawing on paper (this was around 2003 when large, portable touchscreen devices weren’t that many yet). I praised the choice of a USB type-C cable on the Huion Kamvas Pro 13, but the way it was implemented on the XP-Pen Artist 12 Pro really throws away the advantage that using USB type-C offers in the first place.Parallax is non existent because the display is laminated and there's almost no or no gap between the glass and the actual display. I have know that some review said that XP Pen star 03 have low quality build (not so low that it would broke easily) that maybe would broke after 1 year. Teachers and students can create and explain interactive content visually by writing, editing, and annotating directly in files and sharing their screen in real-time.

If you are considering this tablet, I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it how it currently is, but you can still take it into consideration. I didn’t have any problems controlling my strokes and making both thin and thick lines was relatively easy. In my opinion, the GAOMON PD1560 was a fantastic choice when it first came out, but it’s a lot less compelling now that similar/better tablets like the Huion Kamvas Pro 16, XP-Pen Artist 15. Pro is assuming that the shortcut keys don’t matter and that you can make do with a keyboard or get another device for shortcuts. Almost all the lines begin right on the start line meaning it has extremely low IAF, and the lines are almost transparent showing that the tablet is capable of drawing extremely light pen pressures.I already found out that the gen 2 is a significant upgrade over the original Artist 12, but I was wondering how it stacks up against the Pro version. With that said, it’s better than having no stand and it will do in a pinch by propping it up with other things like textbooks to get a better angle.

With this bad accuracy issue, the Artist 12 Pro felt quite cumbersome to use for detail work and I believe this is an issue which absolutely needs to be fixed if XP-Pen wants this tablet to be considered a “Pro” tablet as its name would imply.User-friendly brightness adjustment button is designed for adjusting to your preferred brightness while working. The slow ruler line tests done with a no pen pressure pen were quite good at all angles, but you can clearly see some wobble when tilting the pen completely over. At first, I thought maybe my calibration was wrong, but after adjusting so many times, I just couldn’t resolve the parallax issue.