XP-Pen Artist 12 (2nd Gen) Black

I have watch countless review for portable display tablet and this product is what really stands out.The product is very true on description. The screen is great with crispy resolution and wide range of color gamut, the colors are very true. The tablet is lightweight and very portable. The pen is unbelivably responsive. The tablet buttons are very tactile but silent. The shipping is fast and they really take care of your item. Overall, 5 stars for me. I am already using it for work purposes.

Value For Money:extremely value for a display tablet + i bought it on saleFunctions as advertised. Connecting to my laptop was very easy and you can get to work once you download the driver. I previously used a wacom intuos and i couldn't really set up the exact same pen button shortcuts (specifically panning/scrolling) but there's a lot of shortcut buttons on the side that helped me get the same effect.Pen pressure/other problems can be troubleshooted by a quick google or reinstalling the driver. Your PC should also have hdmi and at least 1 usb port, otherwise you have to buy the type-c cable separately. Tablet can get slightly warm at cable side.Delivered locally in 2 days and arrived safely with sufficient protective packaging!

Amazing

I\'d been wanting a graphics tablet for years but hadn\'t been able to afford one until recently, and with my regular tablet starting to break down I decided to take the plunge and get one. I chose this one after looking at quite a few options. I picked it because of the price point, what I\'d heard about xp-pens customer service and quality, and also I don\'t have a large amount of desk space. the tablet\'s small enough for me while not being so small it\'d be difficult to use my programs. Also...it\'s pink, which is one of my favourite colours.ignore the sticker, I left the protective film on until my screen protector comes in cos wear and tear happens with pretty much every tablet, it\'s just easier to miss cos with regular tablets there\'s no screen or light ... MoreI\'d been wanting a graphics tablet for years but hadn\'t been able to afford one until recently, and with my regular tablet starting to break down I decided to take the plunge and get one. I chose this one after looking at quite a few options. I picked it because of the price point, what I\'d heard about xp-pens customer service and quality, and also I don\'t have a large amount of desk space. the tablet\'s small enough for me while not being so small it\'d be difficult to use my programs. Also...it\'s pink, which is one of my favourite colours.ignore the sticker, I left the protective film on until my screen protector comes in cos wear and tear happens with pretty much every tablet, it\'s just easier to miss cos with regular tablets there\'s no screen or light coming through to highlight the scratches, so making sure you have screen protectors and changing them out when you need to is important.I\'ve included pics of the tablet program, and the customization options because that was my major worry. A lot of tablet programs and drivers are clunky, this one though is not. Frankly it\'s been one of the best ones I\'ve dealt with over the years, super intuitive, and easy to use. It was easy to customize my hotkeys, and I can also save my hotkeys specific to each program which is SO NICE. I work in several different programs and tested this with affinity photo and affinity designer, as well as paint tool sai, Blender, and Krita, and all worked well. Being able to tailor the hotkeys for each program makes workflow a lot smoother.Once I downloaded the driver, installed, and restarted, it didn\'t take long at all to get started at all. I work on a Windows 10 PC and when you first open it up the tablet mirrors your screen, and you can just get started working from there. However you can also set it up as a second monitor, which is what I did, by going into the display settings and hitting detect. Once it registers the tablet as a second monitor, you can change it from mirror mode to extended, which lets you have your program open on the tablet screen exclusively while freeing up your main monitor for things like internet, or in my case my refs are on my main screen so I can just look up when I draw. It makes life a lot easier. Keep in mind the second monitor setup is still active even though the tablet is turned off, just in case you\'re wondering where your mouse is.Calibrating was really easy, I haven\'t had any issue with parallax but I also don\'t dot the pen straight down vertically. When calibrating I hold the pen the way I would when painting, and tap the crosshairs with the tablet at the angle I\'d use to work. It has several automatic screen temperature options for the colours and one of them matches my screen almost perfectly so I didn\'t have to mess with calibrating the screen colours. However it does have rgb and brightness and contrast sliders for you do do this if you need to, which is super helpful.For the physical connectors I have it plugged in with the HDMI USB cord it came with. I tried using it without plugging the second USB into a plug but there was some flickering because my laptop didn\'t have enough power to supply the screen consistently, which is normal, and I expected it cos I have a lot of peripherals plugged in to my PC. It\'s the same reason why you can\'t use a lot of USB hubs without an external power source or things start to fail. Your computer only has so much wattage to give, so I used the additional included extension cable and plugged it into an actual plug. After that it was fine and theres been no more flickering since.All in all It\'s been pretty good, we\'ll see if I need to change my review in time but So far I\'m pretty happy with it.

Good tablet for a great price. No complaints.

I've had this tablet for around a year and a half and can't find anything bad. It's a decent tablet at an affordable price (this constantly goes on sale for around $250, and it's way more affordable than anything Wacom makes) and I suspect XPPen is only going to get better.The knob is amazing and the reason why I bought this. You can adjust brush size, zoom, rotation, and more, and even have a button that changes it so you can use all four at once. The screen size is slightly larger than a paper. They have a pen holder that holds 8 or so spare nibs so your pen will last for a while, too, unlike my old wacom bamboo tablet.Even if you take a hiatus from drawing you can also use this as a second monitor, haha.My only complaints are the fact that:- The power cord ... MoreI've had this tablet for around a year and a half and can't find anything bad. It's a decent tablet at an affordable price (this constantly goes on sale for around $250, and it's way more affordable than anything Wacom makes) and I suspect XPPen is only going to get better.The knob is amazing and the reason why I bought this. You can adjust brush size, zoom, rotation, and more, and even have a button that changes it so you can use all four at once. The screen size is slightly larger than a paper. They have a pen holder that holds 8 or so spare nibs so your pen will last for a while, too, unlike my old wacom bamboo tablet.Even if you take a hiatus from drawing you can also use this as a second monitor, haha.My only complaints are the fact that:- The power cord isn't a single power cord but two usb connectors together and makes it look cheap.- The cord is 1 USB-C cable (connects to the tablet) that splits off into three (HDMI, power, USB) when I'm sure a USB-C to USB-C+power would work since it's much less hassle and basically every computer these days has a USB-C port.- There's no monitor screw in on the back so you can't attach it to a monitor desk arm. You'll have to use a desk arm for laptops big enough to fit this.

High quality hardware, some problems with drivers

This is my second xp-pen tablet. I first purchased the artist 12 but returned it due to an intermittent problem with the connection to my PC. I was very happy with xp-pen support so I decided to stick with xp-pen and upgrade to the artist 13.3 pro.3 months later and after being used almost every day by my 11 year old daughter I continue to be impressed by the quality. This is a significant upgrade from the artist 12. The additional controls make my daughter extremely productive in all of the programs she uses this with. The screen is tough and is still flawless. I was concerned about the screen because 11 year olds are t the most careful of people when using technology.My daughter also uses this as a second screen when she is not drawing.The documentation ... MoreThis is my second xp-pen tablet. I first purchased the artist 12 but returned it due to an intermittent problem with the connection to my PC. I was very happy with xp-pen support so I decided to stick with xp-pen and upgrade to the artist 13.3 pro.3 months later and after being used almost every day by my 11 year old daughter I continue to be impressed by the quality. This is a significant upgrade from the artist 12. The additional controls make my daughter extremely productive in all of the programs she uses this with. The screen is tough and is still flawless. I was concerned about the screen because 11 year olds are t the most careful of people when using technology.My daughter also uses this as a second screen when she is not drawing.The documentation provides instructions that when mirroring the screen their instructions must be followed to have a good experience. I can confirm that when following their advice it works flawlessly. When not mirroring the display there are not supposed to be limitations in matching the resolution of the tablet with the primary display, but we have found that unless we match the resolution on both displays the pen often doesn’t work correctly and the onscreen response is significantly misaligned with where the pen touches the screen. My daughter is okay with having both monitors set to 1080p, but it bothers me that she has a 4K display running in 1080p when it shouldn’t be necessary. This is reproducible on 2 computers running windows 10. I suspect this is a driver issue and it is by no means a showstopper.I highly recommend this. It is fantastic for the price and is just the right size for my daughter. I was going to order a larger model but changed my mind and am glad I did. If it was for my use I would probably have bought a larger model but as my daughter uses the tablet both with the included stand and holding it a larger model would have been too large for her to hold comfortably.

Wiring this up was kind of a pain, otherwise works great

This needs to connect to both the USB and HDMI ports on your laptop. If you have a larger 15'' laptop with the HDMI ports on the opposite side of your USB ports, the length of the cable is just a *bit* smaller than what you need to connect both sides comfortably.This comes with a USB extension cable, so I tried connecting it with that but it didn't work. I almost thought it was broken for a while, but it wasn't. It's just that the extra cable can only be used as a power cable and can't transfer any information between the tablet and your laptop. It's meant for the *other* USB prong.Anyways, I ended up having to get a USB extension cord to make this work. Kind of bad design on the cables side of things.Tablet itself works great. The drivers are pretty handy for ... MoreThis needs to connect to both the USB and HDMI ports on your laptop. If you have a larger 15'' laptop with the HDMI ports on the opposite side of your USB ports, the length of the cable is just a *bit* smaller than what you need to connect both sides comfortably.This comes with a USB extension cable, so I tried connecting it with that but it didn't work. I almost thought it was broken for a while, but it wasn't. It's just that the extra cable can only be used as a power cable and can't transfer any information between the tablet and your laptop. It's meant for the *other* USB prong.Anyways, I ended up having to get a USB extension cord to make this work. Kind of bad design on the cables side of things.Tablet itself works great. The drivers are pretty handy for customizing the buttons. No complaints there.