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Discover the tool used by professionals to turn their ideas into reality. With a new design and features inspired by your feedback, Intuos4 represents the finest pen tablet experience ever created by Wacom. Find out why millions of creative professionals trust us with their ideas.

The medium Intuos4 tablet is the most popular and versatile choice among creative professionals. With 48.5 square inches of working area, this tablet provides ample workspace for most tablet users. The medium size is built with eight ExpressKeys and illuminated ExpressKey displays that provide easy reference to your assigned functions.

Improved Workflow

For creative professionals, time is money. Any time spent making extra keystrokes, pushing the wrong buttons, or adjusting settings is time taken away from the creative process. The new features of Intuos4 were suggested by digital content creators specifically to improve their workflow. Our friends at Adobe helped us come up with a killer workflow enhancement - the Touch Ring. Our customers liked the Intuos3 Touch Strips, and now they will love the new multi-function Touch Ring. With the Touch Ring, commonly used functions such as zoom, scroll, brush size change, layer selection, canvas rotation, and many more can be precisely adjusted in an intuitive way.

Our users are always looking for an edge, and that's why so many have embraced our ExpressKeys for their favorite shortcuts and modifiers. But when moving from one application to another, it can be difficult to remember the application-specific settings. We have solved that problem with the introduction of OLED ExpressKey Displays. No more guessing about your settings. No more having to undo a mistaken command. Look down at your tablet for the settings, or press the Help key to have them appear instantly on your monitor.

With Intuos4, everything you need is at your fingertips, and at the tip of your pen. Would you like to change the volume or the track of the music you are listening to without fumbling with controls? The Radial Menus let you make these adjustments in seconds without taking your hand off your pen. Opening your favorite web browser and email client, or accessing your most often used commands can all be done quickly and simply with the Intuos4 Radial Menus.

Natural Feel

Within minutes of using Intuos4, you will feel the difference. Intuos4 achieves the most natural pen experience possible with the introduction of Wacom's new Tip Sensor. One of the revelations achieved by this new Tip Sensor is that pen activation starts at just 1 gram of pressure. This means that you can start painting and drawing with a feather light touch. And, this new technology has been improved to continue to deliver consistently over time, meaning your pen will feel and perform the same way throughout its life.

With our customers, the saying "Different strokes for different folks," certainly holds true. Some artists like the feel of a soft bristled paintbrush. Others like the harder texture of a pencil or felt pen. Every Intuos4 comes with four different types of nibs (flex, felt, stroke and, standard) to simulate the feel of your favorite writing instrument. The nibs, combined with the overlay surface sheet, produce a natural, versatile creative experience.

High Performance

Millions of creative professionals have depended on Intuos as the premier pen tablet in the industry. Intuos4 builds on that standard and sets the bar even higher. It's not just a great looking tablet. Intuos4 backs up its stylish design with excellent performance. With the new Wacom Tip Sensor, the Intuos4 pen delivers natural feel plus 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity. This enhanced pressure sensitivity means better performance and accuracy in your favorite applications. Artists have said that they are able to draw more precise lines in Photoshop with Intuos4 than they ever could before.

Increased pressure sensitivity is not the only performance benefit. The Intuos4 pens can sense both the angle and direction of tilt up to 60 degrees in all directions for realistic drawing. The detection height of the pen has been increased to 10 mm for more responsive cursor control. Users of the Intuos4 Art Pen will enjoy 360 degrees of barrel rotation to draw graceful lines with the feel of a natural writing instrument. Other testaments to the Intuos4 performance are its 5,080 lpi (lines per inch) tablet resolution and 200 pps (points per second) reporting rate.

Enhanced Control

For digital content creators, the tablet is their canvas that makes everything possible. The Intuos4 "canvas" offers unmatched control that cannot be realized in the analog world. While working in your favorite drawing application, switch to Precision Mode and you will be able to use broad strokes that translate into a smaller working area. The result is pinpoint accuracy and the ability to introduce details that cannot be achieved in the regular mode.

The enhanced control with Intuos4 also extends to your monitor. For the many users with multiple monitor set-ups, Intuos4 features a convenient Display Toggle function that can switch monitors at the push of a button. Each monitor can take advantage of the tablet's full active area and can be mapped individually. Instead of having to divide your tablet's active area across more than one monitor, each monitor can enjoy a one-to-one relationship with your tablet with absolute positioning.

Display toggle functionality is not the only convenient monitor control. Supporting the ambidextrous industrial design, the tablet to monitor orientation can be changed quickly and easily. This handy feature allows for the ExpressKeys to always have the correct orientation for both right-handers and left-handers. But that is not all. The same control panel setting allows for easy switching between landscape and portrait modes. With Intuos4, you are in complete control.

Reasons to Upgrade

1. New Tip Sensor Technology: No other tablet currently on the market offers the same level of sophistication that the Intuos4 pen provides. Our new Tip Sensor technology allows you to adjust the activation level to as low as 1 gram compared with 10 grams for Intuos3 (3 grams is our default setting). This means that you can draw and paint with a natural, light touch. And, 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity combined with a new more natural pressure curve (also adjustable) means that drawing on your tablet is closer to drawing on paper than ever before. Intuos3, Bamboo series, Graphire series...nothing compares to the new Intuos4. Feeling is believing.

2. ExpressKey Displays on Intuos4 Medium, Large and X-Large. Never forget your ExpressKey settings again. Our new OLED ExpressKey Displays provide instant visual confirmation of your functions. The ExpressKey Displays will immediately update when you switch between your favorite applications. If you prefer to keep your eyes on your screen, press the ExpressKey set to Help and all of your settings, including your four Touch Ring functions, will appear full screen in front of you.

3. Ambidextrous Design: Just rotate the tablet 180 degrees, and change the orientation in the Control Panel to switch between right-handed and left-handed use (default orientation is set when you first install from the driver CD). With our new design, all of the ExpressKeys are available to your non-dominent hand. There is no need to reach across the tablet for your shortcuts and you can work without fear of accidently activating keys with your pen hand.

4. Radial Menus: We are proud of the pop-up menus that you used with your Intuos3 tablet. But with the new Intuos4 radial menus, your email, favorite websites and commonly used commands/shortcuts are at the tip of your pen. The radial menus are fully customizable and it's a breeze to create sub-menus. The radial menus will save you time and energy.

5. Precision Mode: New to Intuos4 is Precision Mode. Do you need to create intricate details at the pixel level? Activate Precision Mode and the full active area of your tablet maps to a portion of your screen. With Precision Mode, you can use larger strokes that translates into a smaller part of your canvas. Create finer detailed work than ever before.

Software Bundled with Intuos4

All Intuos4 pen tablets in Asia Pacific come with a bundled DVD containing the following software.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 (Win) / 6.0 (Mac)
Adobe Photoshop Elements is an elegant combination of power and simplicity that will allow you to make all of your digital photos look their best. Combined with the Intuos4 pen tablet, you will be able to tell engaging stories with your photos by introducing enhancements, effects and personalization to them. Then, when your photos are ready for prime time, you can use Photoshop Elements to showcase them in online albums, or create your own personal photo book.

Corel Painter Sketch Pad
Corel's new Painter Sketch Pad provides the tools to allow you to transfer ideas quickly from out of your head and onto the page. Designed with the Intuos4 in mind, Sketch Pad accurately recreates the natural feeling of sketching and painting by hand on paper or canvas. Sketching tools include pencils, pens, chalks, markers, and many more. Sketch Pad is broadly compatible with a variety of file formats, seamlessly integrating with many applications and producing a better workflow. The innovative temporal palettes fade from view when not in use to create a tidy workspace, and the entire interface was designed for pen use. There is even an email command that lets you send sketches to your friends and co-workers at the push of a button.

Autodesk Sketchbook Express
Sketchboook Express is the light version of Autodesk's popular Sketchbook Pro. With most of the same great features and pen-optimized interface as its big brother, Sketchbook Express will have you sketching in seconds and productive in just minutes. The intuitive interface, combined with the unique arced tool palette, provide the tools you need to work without the need for manuals or tutorials. Just pick up your Intuos4 pen and start sketching.

Nik Color Efex Pro filters
Nik Color Efex Pro filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. Photographers of all levels rely on Color Efex Pro filters to save them time and to produce stunning, professional results. The sample filters bundled with Intuos4 allow you to selectively apply lighting and photo enhancements with your pen. Nik Color Efex Pro filters, with their patented U Point technology, will help you get the best out of your digital photos.

Wacom Brushes
Wacom Brushes are custom brush presets for Photoshop CS+ and Photoshop Elements 4+. The set includes 81 brushes especially designed to take advantage of the control and pressure sensitivity of Intuos4. Add these custom brushes to the Adobe brushes directory and enjoy new tools to expand your creativity.

Package Contents

All Intuos4 pen tablets sold in the Asia Pacific region (excludes China, Hong Kong, and Japan) comes with the following items: