Xencelabs Pen Display 16 Global Launch 

Hello ergonomic Joshua

First off, 👑 Second, you getting one too?

Actually, it's pod racing.

After both wacom and Xp-pen shared copied work and ai art on twitter, Gaomon and ugee offering ai courses. I understood their outlook on the future of creativity wasn't there. Hopefully this company is actually legit, this looks very promising.

seems to be it. even huions similarly priced 4k non oled 19" is that price.

The Essentials SKU is $999. It has fewer accessories however and requires a computer that has USB-C that supports DisplayPort alt-mode and outputs 15W of power.

i'm a full time artist, never have used that functionality and disable it when brushes/software adds them

@@TheAlkhemiaStudio what device are you using?

I personally don't use that feature a lot, but they should put it back because other people should have an option to use them too.

Without putting power (I.e. a battery) on the pen, sensing rotation is tricky and makes the pen very fat (e.g. Wacom Art Pen). Wacom found that not that many artists bought that pen and few software companies developed for it. Perhaps if it were standard, that would change.

I'm not sure how many artists actually want tht. But your theory wouldn't surprise me. Buying their way to success is classic apple

No sparkle. :)

I can also confirm. No sparkle

It does need to be connected to a computer to work, but it's so thin and light you could bring it most anywhere.

Sounds like the VESA mount talked about will also fit the 24 display. Same mount.

Same here. Eagerly awaiting the Multi Axis Stand. Presumably there were some production issues and it should be launched any time now. Not holding my breath though, it's been promised a few times before.

You could buy a Ferrari and park it in the garage and just sit in it making zoom zoom noises. But they already make what you're asking for and it's a lot cheaper.

Interesting idea. Why would you prefer that?

60Hz, it's listed on the spec page where it lists all the supported resolutions.

@@bagthebag8049 ah dang, I was hoping for 120hz. But it's still cool that it has a 1ms response time.

If a company doesn’t brag about 120hz, just assume it’s 60.

@@IsaacBrown-kk7jx bro even 90hz would be insane considering the other specs 😭

Teradici support is being developed. Alpha driver about to be tested but I’m sure there will be some initial bugs. Note too, in Linux, kernel driver has very limited functionality unless the community develop it. With Xencelabs the driver is completely developed and has mostly the same functionality as the Windows and Mac drivers.

We are working on an easel which will support VESA compatibility. This is coming soon!

@@Xencelabs Can you say roughly when? If not one is left to presume not very soon.

It does not have multi touch

This has a 10 mm (or thereabouts) hover height and button activation.

I’m always surprised to read comments like this. Professionals make money from drawing and there are things like tax deduct and write-off. Sure there are hobbyist, part timers and underpaid manga artist who cannot afford this. But this doesn't mean there is no market for a product like this. Luckily there are also many artists, designers and architects who make a decent living using drawing displays at various companies or free lance. For them, 1250 is not that big of an investment for an essential tool or compared to other offerings like the Cintiq pro 16 pro. Don't forget this includes the 100 euro quick keys and other accessories. The essential bundle is 1000. In my network, digital drawing at various locations (home, office, client) is a growing need and this is by far the lightest solution. It fits in any slightly larger backpacks alongside a laptop and the fact that it feeds from a laptop is a big weight saver. And if you draw professionally you might agree 16” is the bare minimum to comfortably work long hours, and the higher resolution and contrast ratio also help to reduce strain. Sure I'd wish if things were lighter, but until a 16” iPad arrives a pen display is the only portable solution.

​@@bonkfarid2611 The issue of 16 inches being the minimum has a lot more to do with software than it does with the tablet itself. If you haven't tried a 13inch ipad you probably should. Also it sounds you are part of an exceptionally small minority of people that this product is for. The other 99% of people don't need any portability and would prefer a company like xencelabs actually put there effort into created a dedicated device.

Very few people have the muscle control to hold the pen at 1 g. I would guess the majority of artists are around 10 to 20 g at the light end. For a heavy-handed artist, much more than that.

@@VocalMike I'm not sure where you get that from... plenty of artists use pens and pencils for getting hair thin lines, hatching, light shading so they would develop that control easily. Especially light shading with pencil using circular side motions. Anyone who has practiced a value scale in graphite has this control, they're just making it less lifelike for professional artists (and 3g is on the upper end of bad, huion has 2g). People who are heavy handed usually death grip the pen which shouldn't be encouraged anyway, as well as faster wear on your pen tip and tablet surface. Not a good reason to not improve the pen IAF, if someone feels its too light they can turn up the sensitivity, but no matter how low you turn it down on a bad pen it won't make a line when it should like a real tool and feels much less natural. People who do stippling art I'd definitely recommend against anything with 3g IAF like xp pen.

@@lesnacke I agree that the capability for lighter is always better so you have the choice but that most artists would struggle to maintain a consistent 1g pressure. A 3-button pen is around 17g and you'd have to use muscle control to continually lift 16g to get a 1g on the surface. It's quite easy to measure one's ability by getting a kitchen or postal scale that measures in grams. When I try to draw at the lightest, I cannot maintain 1g consistently. When trying for 1g, I vary between 1 and 8g with most of the time around 5g. If I had to do that for any length of time it would be very tiring. Admittedly there will be some much more talented individuals than me who are more consistent but that is my experience. Remember too that the purpose of a pressure curve, which can be adjusted is to make it more comfortable to get extremely thin lines with less effort. If your natural sweet spot for drawing is say, 8g, you can adjust the pressure curve so that 8g will produce a very fine line indeed, without as much tension on your muscles.