Wacom Intuos 3 – which size?

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Nov 8, 2004
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I have a new mac G5 2.5 with twin 20" screens and am looking at a tablet (Intuos 3) – but which size? Would appreciate any feedback from digi-photo artists who use tablets – in particular with twin screens and how you can get the tablet to work the screens; for instance I might be working on 10-20 photos at once (batching) on the right hand screen and put them onto one poster onto the left hand screen…

TIA

/viz

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BobS
Nov 9, 2004
Having just gone thru that recently and working closely with their tech support – the answer is……6"x8".

I have dual 19" screens and the tablet is just the right size. Not so large you have a lot of hand movement working the tablet and not so small as to make it usable for only one screen. The setup software will walk you through the process of setting it up for one or two screen operation.

Unfortunately there was (is) a bit of a driver problem for me. The tablet worked great (no problem – you’ll love it) but it appears there is a conflict between their driver and a program I use – DriveImage v7.0. At least they believe that is the problem. The pen or mouse will not respond (intermittent) and you have to lift it from the tablet about 1", then place it down and everything works again. Other than that – it worked as advertised. You probably will never see this problem if you’re not using DriveImage.

In order to get a tablet that will work with my software configuration, I dropped back to the 6"x8" Intuos2 tablet (USB) and the drivers for it do not fight with my other software. Wacom was great in working with me to solve this little problem. To those that are ready to make suggestions about what software I should use, I’ll say – probably already tried it and this works consistently and has saved my bacon several times. Ghost and others did not always recover everything – so I’m staying with what works for my configuration. (By the way, Symantec bought the DriveImage software – what’s that tell you….?)

Bob S.

"viz" <viz@*nospam*.pacific.net.au> wrote in message news:BDB51439.2D3F%viz@*nospam*.pacific.net.au…
I have a new mac G5 2.5 with twin 20" screens and am looking at a tablet (Intuos 3) – but which size? Would appreciate any feedback from digi-photo artists who use tablets – in particular with twin screens and how you can get the tablet to work the screens; for instance I might be working on
10-20
photos at once (batching) on the right hand screen and put them onto one poster onto the left hand screen…

TIA

/viz
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Hecate
Nov 10, 2004
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:31:13 GMT, "BobS" wrote:

(By the way, Symantec bought the DriveImage software – what’s that tell you….?)
It’s time you bought Acronis True Image instead. 😉



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BobS
Nov 10, 2004
Got to admit, that’s one I haven’t tried…. and out of curiosity, I will look it up.

Bob S.

"Hecate" wrote in message
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:31:13 GMT, "BobS" wrote:
(By the way, Symantec bought the DriveImage software – what’s that tell you….?)
It’s time you bought Acronis True Image instead. 😉



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viz
Nov 10, 2004
Thanks Bob! 🙂

/viz

On 10/11/04 2:31 AM, in article 5p5kd.91406$,
"BobS" wrote:

Having just gone thru that recently and working closely with their tech support – the answer is……6"x8".

I have dual 19" screens and the tablet is just the right size. Not so large you have a lot of hand movement working the tablet and not so small as to make it usable for only one screen. The setup software will walk you through the process of setting it up for one or two screen operation.
Unfortunately there was (is) a bit of a driver problem for me. The tablet worked great (no problem – you’ll love it) but it appears there is a conflict between their driver and a program I use – DriveImage v7.0. At least they believe that is the problem. The pen or mouse will not respond (intermittent) and you have to lift it from the tablet about 1", then place it down and everything works again. Other than that – it worked as advertised. You probably will never see this problem if you’re not using DriveImage.

In order to get a tablet that will work with my software configuration, I dropped back to the 6"x8" Intuos2 tablet (USB) and the drivers for it do not fight with my other software. Wacom was great in working with me to solve this little problem. To those that are ready to make suggestions about what software I should use, I’ll say – probably already tried it and this works consistently and has saved my bacon several times. Ghost and others did not always recover everything – so I’m staying with what works for my configuration. (By the way, Symantec bought the DriveImage software – what’s that tell you….?)

Bob S.

"viz" <viz@*nospam*.pacific.net.au> wrote in message news:BDB51439.2D3F%viz@*nospam*.pacific.net.au…
I have a new mac G5 2.5 with twin 20" screens and am looking at a tablet (Intuos 3) – but which size? Would appreciate any feedback from digi-photo artists who use tablets – in particular with twin screens and how you can get the tablet to work the screens; for instance I might be working on
10-20
photos at once (batching) on the right hand screen and put them onto one poster onto the left hand screen…

TIA

/viz

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Hecate
Nov 11, 2004
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:27:12 GMT, "BobS" wrote:

Got to admit, that’s one I haven’t tried…. and out of curiosity, I will look it up.
Much better than Ghost or DI. 🙂



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A7
aka 717
Dec 28, 2004
Fascinating Bob. I have two 21" monitors with an Intuos 3 and Drive Image and am having the same problem except that sometimes I have to use the mouse to regain the curosr. I think you should be able to disable the running parts of DI, ie the processes that are causing the problem… Maybe not. I’m going to try. It doesn’t seem likely that the program sitting on the hard disk inactive would cause a problem, but then again so much of computers doesn’t seem to make sense… : -)

"BobS" wrote in message
Having just gone thru that recently and working closely with their tech support – the answer is……6"x8".

I have dual 19" screens and the tablet is just the right size. Not so large
you have a lot of hand movement working the tablet and not so small as to make it usable for only one screen. The setup software will walk you through the process of setting it up for one or two screen operation.
Unfortunately there was (is) a bit of a driver problem for me. The tablet worked great (no problem – you’ll love it) but it appears there is a conflict between their driver and a program I use – DriveImage v7.0. At least they believe that is the problem. The pen or mouse will not respond (intermittent) and you have to lift it from the tablet about 1", then place
it down and everything works again. Other than that – it worked as advertised. You probably will never see this problem if you’re not using DriveImage.

In order to get a tablet that will work with my software configuration, I dropped back to the 6"x8" Intuos2 tablet (USB) and the drivers for it do not
fight with my other software. Wacom was great in working with me to solve this little problem. To those that are ready to make suggestions about what
software I should use, I’ll say – probably already tried it and this works consistently and has saved my bacon several times. Ghost and others did not
always recover everything – so I’m staying with what works for my configuration. (By the way, Symantec bought the DriveImage software – what’s
that tell you….?)

Bob S.

"viz" <viz@*nospam*.pacific.net.au> wrote in message news:BDB51439.2D3F%viz@*nospam*.pacific.net.au…
I have a new mac G5 2.5 with twin 20" screens and am looking at a tablet (Intuos 3) – but which size? Would appreciate any feedback from digi-photo
artists who use tablets – in particular with twin screens and how you can get the tablet to work the screens; for instance I might be working on
10-20
photos at once (batching) on the right hand screen and put them onto one poster onto the left hand screen…

TIA

/viz

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– 12 scenes

– 48 MacBook Pro 16″ mockups

– 6000 x 4500 px

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