Accept : No Limits!

Accept : No Limits!
Thoughts :
Imagine using your hand and a pen as a computer input medium. With results
showing directly on the display – just like using pen and paper …
Cintiq from WACOM makes the impossible possible – and speeds up the possible.
It puts the fun back into work. Your creativity is no longer slowed by mousing
around. Because it’s natural – intuitive, hands-on and allows perfect eye-hand
coordination. In a word: ergonomic. And it’s efficient – to a degree you can only
achieve when work is really fun!
Just like pen and paper – but digital
Efficiency comes naturally
Switch on and get started ... and feel a sense
Regardless of what you use your Cintiq for – you’re
of achievement within moments. That’s Cintiq.
always working totally naturally. A relaxed and
Because your Cintiq works just as well with
comfortable position that’s highly ergonomic and
standard software, industry-specific or in-house
fatigue-free. And because you don’t have to learn
software. And whatever you put on paper you
anything new, your personal output increases
can put on your Cintiq. And directly into your
straight away – making Cintiq a real efficiency tool.
computer.
High-output input
Your Cintiq works like a touch screen – except that it
is much more accurate and the display is brighter.
And – unlike a touch screen – you can rest your hand
on the display without causing input errors. So the
display replaces paper. You can turn it any way you
wish – and your eye follows your hand with the pen,
which you guide across the digital paper. It's natural.
Intuitive. And efficient.
Free
“These ‘Interactive Pen Displays’ are
the future. I should know – I have
one! (...) You draw straight on the
screen! That really is a quantum leap
in ergonomics. Digital paper! I’m just
getting started but one thing is clear:
This is revolutionary!”
Jamiri (Jan-Michael Richter)
Cartoonist
Work :
Computer, monitor, mouse, sketchpad and scanner – and already your desktop
is cluttered.
Not so with Cintiq, because the display is monitor, mouse and sketchpad in one.
You can lay it on your lap or stand it on the table, pick up the pen and get going.
How much space do you need? About A3 – a bit bigger than the sketchpad you
used to have on your desk.
“The benefit of my Cintiq? I can draw initial
sketches freehand and make intuitive changes
to plans or photos, communicating directly with
employees and owners in a very impressive
manner. And by the way – we already have
three Cintiqs.“
Karsten Winkels
Head Designer, Bauwerkstadt Dortmund
Fun
Size is more than a question of dimensions
The Cintiq 15X shows its power, for example,
when used for architectural sketches or for graphics
Cintiq gives you the choice between two models,
design scribbles. Or for presentations in the office.
and both models give you the ergonomics and
You don’t only develop the presentations on the
outstanding reliability of WACOM – the market
Cintiq 15X, but you can also run them as on an
and technology leader.
electronic flipchart – elegantly making changes
and additions with your pen.
As good as it gets – Cintiq 18SX
Smart pen
This is the top of the WACOM range. Superb
for complex applications which require a large
Your Cintiq comes with a 16g or 12g cordless
working area and high precision as well as
batteryless pen. You use the pressure sensitive pen
ergonomic workflow. Users of programs with
directly on the display – as a pencil, brush, marker
highly complex menus that require accurate
or airbrush, depending on the current program and
navigation value the 18.1" screen and SXGA
tool setting.
resolution of the Cintiq 18SX. They also love
the dynamically adjustable tilt & rotate stand
Simply by changing the pressure, you access up
that comes as standard. This allows you to tilt
to 512 pressure levels to determine line thickness,
the screen from 13 to 70 degrees and to rotate
saturation, etc. The double-side switch of the
it either way through 180 degrees at any time
pen can be programmed – and is designed to
while you are working. And if you want to use
be equally accessible to left- and right-handers.
your Cintiq like a sketchpad, you can detach
Another outstanding feature is the eraser. If you
the stand and rest the display on your knee or
want to undo something, you simply turn the
a table edge – or lay it on the lap.
pen around and “rub it out” right there on the
display. And by the way, the ergonomic styling of
the cushioned pen reduces gripping force by up
A great little tool – Cintiq 15X
to 40%. So you can work much longer than with
a mouse – without stress or fatigue.
Compact dimensions make the Cintiq 15X the
ideal board for the small desk. Its sturdy stand
The benefits of intuitive pen input are available
allows tilting in the range from 18 to 73 degrees
with leading software houses: An increasing
to accommodate the way you work and your
number of tool functions are being optimised for
preferred posture.
pen input. These include programs from Adobe,
Alias Wavefront, Autodesk, Discreet and many
more.
Design :
Pen and paper have stood the test of time. But look what we’ve done
with them – we’ve created a tool that’s intuitive and efficient as well.
The Cintiq Interactive Pen Display.
Accept no limits!
You can also rotate the Cintiq 18SX to whatever
position you want. Or remove it from the stand
Cintiq works with just about any program and
and lay it on your lap.
nearly all major operating systems.
Up to 512 pressure levels or line thicknesses give
Whether architectural design, development,
your work a personal touch. And because you
CAD, industrial and graphics design, presentation,
can more precisely define the effect filters of your
or audio and video editing, your Cintiq shows
program with the pen, the Cintiq makes it really
you the meaning of freedom of thought for
easy to display your personal style.
your daily work.
And once you have tried using the Cintiq Interactive
Pen Display in complex menu systems – such as
Simply brilliant or brilliantly simple?
those used in audio and video editing – you won’t
want to be without it.
Drawing with a pen on digital paper sounds really
simple – but it's pure high tech. Allowing you all the
freedom you need.
The stable stand means that your Cintiq works like
an easel. And even better – you can set the tilt to
the angle that suits you best.
Flexibility
“Without Cintiq Interactive Pen Displays, IT-based
transmission of lectures with annotations would suffer
a big loss of quality and acceptance. The use of the
Cintiq displays with their high reproduction quality
allows us to broadcast lectures directly within the
campus, reaching far more students than otherwise
possible.”
Dipl.-Math. Klaus Scheibenberger
Head of the Technical Infrastructure Department,
Karlsruhe Technical University
Application :
Industrial design
See the briefing as an opportunity to give your
thoughts a free hand and to use all the interactive
possibilities of the design software in 2D and 3D.
The programmable pen relieves you of routine work
and the dynamic tilt & rotate stand lets you adjust
the position of the Cintiq 18SX display to suit the
way you work.
Graphics design
Scribbles, layouts and artwork. You use different
programs to give your creativity maximum freedom.
All these work perfectly with your Cintiq – and with
full freedom of design. And at last you can work as
you did at the beginning of your graphics design
studies – with pen on paper, following the flow of
your ideas.
Diversity
Audio & video editing
Architectural design
Animations, surfaces and textures – your Cintiq
From the first sketch to the finished plan – working
supports your creativity and the functionality of
with your Cintiq is always intuitive and precise. The
your software. From a single point in a halftone
pen technology not only allows a high degree of
to animated shading and light effects. But your
accuracy, but automatically prevents parallax errors.
Cintiq 18SX also plays a lead role in post production
and compositing programs: Not only can you
The natural pen-on-paper approach guarantees
navigate through complex functions and menus
perfect control and absolutely precise positioning.
swiftly and surely, you can also rearrange video
And if you want to shade a sketch – no problem
and audio sequences just as quickly and easily
with the pressure sensitive pen.
as you can move, crop, rotate or color-enhance
individual layers in a composite image.
Illustration and animation
Presentation
Cartoons, comics, animations, 2D and 3D drawings
and airbrush work – anything your hand, eye and
The Cintiq gives you a real competitive edge in
software can do, your Cintiq can do, too. Gone
presentations. In combination with a beamer, you
are the days of time-consuming processes such as
can project your slides and add notes on the fly,
drafting on paper, scanning and editing with the
writing directly on the bright, high-color-fidelity
mouse. With Cintiq you can do it naturally, drawing
Cintiq display. Try that with a mouse! This is
directly on the display – in real time.
direct communication and interaction: You can
respond to questions from the audience and
present answers on-screen in an instant. And your
presentation becomes smoother, too. Instead of
mousing around, you can use your pen to quickly
and precisely navigate through your presentation.
Getting straight to the point.
Bottom line :
A natural approach to input and navigation. An intuitive, fatigue-free
ergonomic interface. All enhancing efficiency. That's what the Cintiq
series was developed for.
WACOM is the main supplier
of pen technology for the
new Tablet PCs based on the
Microsoft Windows XP Tablet
PC Edition operating system.
Customers include Viewsonic,
Toshiba, Fujitsu-Siemens, and
Acer.
Special
acrylic surface
TFT display
Sensor board
H i g h Te c h
Cintiq – at home in your world
From head to pen to digital paper
Your Cintiq safeguards your investment in software
WACOM’s patented induction technology
and hardware. Because whether you use Windows,
(“penabled technology”) transmits signals from
Mac OS, Linux, HP-UX, Sun, or SGI – Cintiq works
the computer to the pen and back using magnetic
with almost any operating system. And because it is
resonance. You work in real time. The pen is
suitable for nearly all applications, you can use it
powered by induction, so it needs no batteries,
with all the programs you use in your daily work.
cords or magnets. You work with an ergonomic
pen that’s light as a feather, letting you forget
Digital paper – or the Cintiq input surface
what fatigue is.
consists of a sensor field with a horizontal and
vertical conductor grid and a high-resolution,
The double-side switch of the pressure
high-contrast TFT display. The Cintiq pen is used
sensitive Cintiq pen can be programmed with
on a specially coated acrylic with paper-like feel.
frequently used functions, and you can customise
You can rest your hand on the surface – just like
your programs with application-specific settings.
on a sketchpad – without causing input errors. In
contrast to a touch screen, the Cintiq display loses
Line thickness is determined by pressure on the
neither color brilliance nor contrast as the result
pen – with up to 512 pressure levels. The inte-
of a touch-sensitive surface because the sensors
grated eraser tip is activated by simply turning
are located behind the display. And color fidelity
the pen around.
is ensured by the possibility of color calibration
and accurate reproduction in the ICC profile
supplied.
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