Finally upgraded from my hand-me-down Wacom

"for Michigan" (formichigan) 01/30/2018 at 11:00 • Filed to: miata, mazda, mx-5, snl, huion, inspiroy, wacom, intuos, ryan gosling, papyrus, design, illustration, tablet, graphics

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So it’s time for a new illustration! Behold the lifted Blobata. (This is the rough-in stage, it’ll clean up from here.) As for my new graphics tablet:

Wow. My 6P usually takes better low-light pictures than this.

It’s a Huion Inspiroy H950P. A Chinese Wacom competitor that comes in at $80 as compared to the equivalent Wacom Intuos Pro M at $350. Same basic size (~8.5" x 5.5" active area), same levels of pressure sensitivity (8192), same number of “ExpressKeys” (8), same battery-free pen with replaceable nib. The configuration utility even has a similar interface.

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What don’t you get for $270 less? Bluetooth, pen tilt, or multi-touch.

Multi-touch I do miss. I used multi-touch Intuos tablets at college and I love having what amounts to a giant trackpad. More convenient than a mouse.

Bluetooth I could take or leave. It would be cool for working with my laptop, but my desktop (main workstation) doesn’t have it, so realistically it wouldn’t get used.

Pen tilt I never found much use for it. Maybe with newer versions of Photoshop or actual painting software it would be useful, but I don’t use those, so I don’t miss it.

Huion did do one thing wrong and it really bugs me though:

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I think this SNL skit sums up my feelings on this nicely:

Spanfeller is a twat > for Michigan 01/30/2018 at 11:10

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Lovely. Hope to see more lifted miatas soon

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > for Michigan 01/30/2018 at 11:23

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Sometimes the Chinese really do things better simply because of the fact that copyright is a bit of a joke to them.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 01/30/2018 at 11:25

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And in general I feel they are at least partially getting a reputation for being able to produce some quality stuff. I don’t automatically cringe when I hear “made in China” now.

And I’m no nationalist, I feel the rest of the world deserves to produce stuff too. It’s going to happen whether we like it or not.

MonkeePuzzle > for Michigan 01/30/2018 at 11:36

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huh, I looked at a few Huion’s products, but was concerned just on brand name alone. I should give them a second look.  

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 01/30/2018 at 11:41

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The problem is with how many Chinese sweatshops spam the listings on websites with low-quality merchandise that’s literally the same thing that a different “company” made.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 01/30/2018 at 12:05

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THIS! I was shopping for a certain type of bulb. Amazon had hundreds of listings, most of them with prime, all of them the same three bulbs but with different makes stamped on them and wildly different prices.

RT > for Michigan 01/30/2018 at 12:25

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Just got a Wacom Intuos myself recently, though I need to upgrade my software a bit too. This seems like a good alternative though.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > for Michigan 01/30/2018 at 12:39

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$80?!

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 01/30/2018 at 16:24

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Yeah it’s called “private labeling”, I sell on Amazon, so I’m familiar with the practice, many many many products are up for offer in this manner. You an buy a 500, 1,000, however many you want and have them made with your logo on there and become a seller of whatever item that is.

I imagine many Chinese companies have cut out the middleman and sell this stuff on their own on Amazon. But there are a lot of Americans buying up skids, containers, several container loads of stuff and selling them under their own label.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 01/30/2018 at 16:25

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Yeah it’s called “private labeling”, I sell on Amazon, so I’m familiar with the practice, many many many products are up for offer in this manner. You an buy a 500, 1,000, however many you want and have them made with your logo on there and become a seller of whatever item that is.

I imagine many Chinese companies have cut out the middleman and sell this stuff on their own on Amazon. But there are a lot of Americans buying up skids, containers, several container loads of stuff and selling them under their own label.

for Michigan > MonkeePuzzle 01/30/2018 at 18:14

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I looked at them several times over the years, but their old stuff looked cheap and had the battery powered pens. Their new H950P and H650P both feature the battery-free pen like a Wacom and don’t look like they cloned a 15-year-old Wacom. Having handled the thing now, it’s not as weighty as a Wacom, but it doesn’t feel cheap.

for Michigan > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/30/2018 at 18:15

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Is this a positive or negative exclamation?

for Michigan > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 01/30/2018 at 18:18

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Huion’s old stuff definitely looked like a 15-year-old Wacom clone, but these new devices don’t really look like any of the other tablets I’ve seen on the market.

MonkeePuzzle > for Michigan 01/30/2018 at 18:50

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the price is about right for what I actually use one for. probably worth all the downsides if it actually works half decently

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > for Michigan 01/30/2018 at 19:15

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so cheap :o

for Michigan > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/30/2018 at 20:08

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Right? Bought mine off Newegg, had it within a week.

10/10 would cheapskate again.

for Michigan > MonkeePuzzle 01/30/2018 at 20:17

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So far, so good. It’s a significant upgrade from the old Bamboo I’ve been using and I don’t miss the extra features of the Intuos Pros I’ve used.