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than any other interface I have used. It’s

unbeatable for anyone who paints or draws

or sketches. Not only that, but the heat

generated by the display will keep your

hands healthy and agile!

Any artist who uses brushes and pens

will fall in love with the Cintiq—and so

did I. When I began losing myself in Corel

Painter, only the missing smell of linseed

oil and turpentine stopped me from imag-

ining that I was in a bright studio with

easels, canvas, brushes, palettes and tubes

of paint scattered everywhere. Since so

many digital artists work in dark and

bland-looking interiors, this elevating, real-

life feeling was welcome and precious.

The beginning of handwriting recognition

technology. The combination of Apple’s

Inkwell software (built on Apple’s Recog-

nition Engine) and the Wacom tablet may

be the beginning of true on-screen hand-

writing recognition technology, and it may

even mean getting rid of a keyboard and

mouse for good—at least for visual artists.

The Ink Control Panel is installed with

OS 10.2 (Jaguar), but a pressure-sensitive

Wacom tablet—running on Wacom’s dri-

ver version 4.72-5 or later—must be con-

nected to use it.

A floating Inkpad window appears

when the Handwriting Recognition option

is turned on in the Ink Control Panel. You

can write text in Text mode or sketch in

Graphic mode, and then send text (auto-

matically converted to type) or a drawing

(as a greyscale image) to the active pro-

gram, including e-mail. Inkpad also has a

popup Corrector feature (in Stylus Mode,

tap once on the word to correct it, then

press the stylus and hold it to see the pop-

up correction options). To top it off,

Inkpad has icons for all four modifier keys

which makes using keyboard shortcuts

possible without a keyboard. And it pro-

vides a set of twelve gestures for common

functions such as copy, paste, select all,

delete, insert space, or insert paragraph

(called Vertical Space).

Although tricky to learn, Inkwell is a

brilliant version 1.0 app and promises a fu-

ture simplified by the elimination of key-

board and mouse.

Perfect for video and games. The Cintiq

18sx has both analog and digital video in-

terfaces, important because it means that

it is both backward-compatible with the

large installed base of VGA monitors and

forward-compatible with the emerging

DVI video standard. This is a definite

bonus for video artists—or, for that matter,

anyone who plays games or watches

movies.

THE DOWNS

It’s big and heavy. Measuring 18.4 inches

wide by 16 inches high and weighing in at

almost eight kilograms (17 lbs) plus a two-

kilo stand, the Cintiq 18sx is not easy to

put aside when access to a keyboard or

mouse is temporarily needed. And even

for the average person, using the display as

a laptop without the stand feels like being

stuck under a patio stone—just picking up

a dropped stylus can be an ordeal.

Ergonomics are a battle. In its most hori-

zontal position, the unit is almost three

inches higher than a desktop, and this is a

bigger issue than one might think. In or-

der to sit and use it, a chair seat has to be

much higher than normal typing height.

But a regular desk chair doesn’t have the

appropriate height.

A desk with a pullout keyboard shelf

turned out to be useless. Leaning over the

display involves sitting both higher and

closer, but the keyboard shelf kept getting

in the way of my knees.

In the end, I concluded that a drafting

chair with a built-in footrest (so my feet

don’t dangle) would probably provide the

most comfortable seating position.

However, by the time I’d finished my

testing, my elbows were hurting and my

back was aching. Better think about furni-

ture before getting one of these godzillas.

Forget about using a dual monitor setup.

Letting go of the notion of working on two

monitors simultaneously was most disap-

pointing. Digital artists dream of a larger

work area, and the idea of keeping pallets

on one monitor and work in progress on

the other is very appealing.

Technically, the Cintiq can be used in

conjunction with another monitor (al-

though two graphic cards are needed), but

in practice there’s a simple reason why it

WACOM CINTIQ 18SX

Display Specifications

LCD Screen Size — 18.1”

LCD Active Area — 14.1” x 11.3”

Max LCD Resolution — 1280 x 1024 (SXGA)

Color Depth — 24-bit

Contrast Ratio — 300:1

Brightness (cd/m2) — 210

Viewing Angle (L/R, U/D) — 80/80, 80/80

Pen Input Specifications

Pen & Eraser Pressure — 512 levels

Programmable Pen Switches — Eraser and two

side switches

Coord. Accuracy Center — ± 0.02”

Tablet Reading Height — 0.2”

Report Rate — 205 point/sec

Battery Free — Yes

USB Serial Connector — USB Plug A

RS-232 Serial Connector — DB-9pin Female

Mechanical Specifications

Dimensions (LxHxD) — 18.4” x 16.0” x 2.8”

Weight (excluding stand) — 7.7 kg (17.0 lbs.)

Incline Adjustment — 13° to 70°

Display Rotation — ± 180°

Stand Attachment — VESA 100mm with 70mm

aperture

Pricing

US$3,499 [~CDN$5,300]

Wacom Technology

Web www.wacom.com

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