Wacom debuts Special Edition Intuos3 tablets

Wacom today introduced three new Intuos3 Special Edition pen tablets (site not updated, older product pictured) to celebrate its 25th year in the business. The tablets, which are available in three sizes which include 6x8, 6x11, and 9x12 boast refined black and gun metal gray color scheme. The new devices include Wacom's Classic Pen, as well as the...

published on Thursday, the 6. September 2007, macintosh-news-network

Make Wacom tablet settings apply system-wide

I have a Wacom Tablet, it's behaviour configured exactly the way I like it. When switching users, one must configure the behaviour on a per user basis. This is extremely annoying, especially with my childrens' restricted accounts. In restricted accounts, there is no way of opening the Wacom Tablet preferences, and thus they are set to default. One would actually have to remove the restrictions, log in with each account, change the prefs, log out, log back in and reset the restrictions, for each and every account.I found it much easier to log in as root. I deleted all the Wacom preference files from all accounts (/User » Library » Preferences » com.wacom...), as well as the files inside /Library/Preferences/Tablet/. Then fire up the Wacom preference pane and set the preferences as you would like them to be. These settings will now applied system wide. [robg adds: I would think you could do something similar by using sudo -s in Terminal ...

published on Thursday, the 12. July 2007, macosxhints

Wacom rolls out Bamboo designer tablet

Wacom this morning took its tablets in a different direction with the Bamboo, one of its first designer tablets. Made to look like a luxury Japanese pen set, the A6-sized drawing surface also has a circular trackpad for scrolling through images and other documents without interrupting the drawing process; programmable buttons surrounding the pad...

published on Tuesday, the 15. May 2007, macintosh-news-network

Wacom readies compact LCD tablet

Wacom has just unveiled the PL-521, a smaller alternative to its artist-oriented Cintiq screens. The 15-inch LCD is large enough for adding writing and sketches to documents and is labeled as a great fit for businesses and schools; to help, the screen's stand can adjust to either 140 degrees horizontal or a more easel-like 130 degrees vertical. ...

published on Monday, the 23. April 2007, macintosh-news-network

Wacom releases new tablet, display driver

Wacom Technology on Monday posted a new driver for Mac OS X that supports the USB versions of its Intuos3, Intuos2, Intuos, CintiqPartner, Graphire2 (ET-0405A) and Graphire pen tablets as well as its Cintiq 21UX, 18SX, 15x, and PL-500 pen displays. In addition to expanded support, Wacom also implemented a new Pan/Scroll option for the pen buttons t...

published on Wednesday, the 18. April 2007, macintosh-news-network

ModBook Tablet Mac to Debut at Macworld

The ModBook, by Other World Computing and Axiotron, uses Wacom's Penabled hardware for on-screen stylus input, supports Apple's Inkwell technology, includes a built-in iSight camera, a CD/DVD combo drive, an optional global positioning system, and a magnesium alloy body.

published on Friday, the 5. January 2007, macnewsworld

10.4: Use serial Wacom tablets in Mac OS X

Wacom doesn't provide a driver for "obsolete" serial tablets in Mac OS X. Nature abhors a vacuum. So an open source project emerged to fill the void. TabletMagic is a free, open source driver and preference pane for Wacom serial tablets. Supported model numbers start with PL, SD, UD, KT, and CT, and end in -R. It has been tested with tablet models UD-1212-R, UD-1218-R, CT-0045-R, PL-300, and PL-400. Intuos (GD) is not yet supported. ADB tablets are not supported. The updated preference pane provides an improved interface to control the driver, configure low-level tablet parameters, set mapping options and presets, and test the tablet. TabletMagic 2 includes full source code under the General Public License. [robg adds: I have a newer tablet, so I can't test this one -- but I know there are a fair number of serial tablets out there, so perhaps this will help someone...]

published on Monday, the 22. May 2006, macosxhints

10.4: Restore lost Wacom tablet mapping feature

Having only recently upgraded to Tiger, I never got around to setting up my Wacom PenPartner tablet until yesterday -- and I found that the latest driver does not include any mapping features at all! This makes it impossible...

published on Friday, the 17. February 2006, macosxhints