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Pen tablet families
Our professional pen tablets – Intuos4
Throughout the world, our professional range is unrivalled and acknowl-
edged to be an industry standard with our unique technology, high
performance and quality. It has also been highly acclaimed by our
customers: those professionals who create inspirational movies, anima-
tion, digital art, advertisements and web designs. The Intuos4, enjoys a
high reputation for the new product design techniques, incorporating
universal design and ergonomics, as well as for a design tool to offer
high productivity to professional users.
Our consumer pen tablets – Bamboo
Bamboo, our new consumer family of pen tablets, provides a natural-
to-use tool for expressing creative ideas and communicating in a unique
and more personal way. We have used all of our skill and experience
from our professional market products to create Bamboo, incorporating
the quality and user-friendly features synonymous with our products.
Bamboo can be used and enjoyed by everyone: male or female, young
or old. Our best -selling models are Bamboo and Bamboo Fun. The
former unlocks powerful, pen-based features found in current operating
systems, particularly Microsoft Windows Vista. Bamboo Fun enables
users to intuitively draw, paint, sketch, write or retouch digital photo-
graphs. To sum it up, Bamboo is a new, fun way of working with a
computer.
Our interactive pen displays – Cintiq & DTX/PL
Providing the freedom to work with the pen directly on screen, our
interactive pen displays come in two ranges: the Cintiq, which is
designed for professional graphic artists, and the DTX/PL Series, which
is for more general users. Cintiq interactive pen displays include the high
performance and functionality and are used by many professionals from
photographers to car designers. Not just for the graphics market, these
pen tablets are also invaluable for a variety of additional tasks such as
medical recording, educational systems opening of a bank account,
digital signature and order processing.
Our Components
Not only are our pen sensor components incorporated into our own
high-quality products, but other companies use them. Our brand name
for this patented sensor technology is “Penabled.” The Penabled family
now offers user interface technology solutions to most Tablet PCs.
Moreover, we are developing a multi-touch sensor system which
realizes high performance position sensing of multiple fingers.