We already rate the Xencelabs Pen Display 16 as the best pen display for any artist who doesn’t want to fork out for a Wacom Cintiq Pro – and it has a place in our pick of the best tablets for digital artists. Now there’s an even cheaper way to get it.
In our Xencelabs Pen Display 16 review, we found it hard to fault the drawing experience on the smooth matte-etched 4K OLED display. The colour coverage is excellent with 1.07 billion colours and factory-calibrated 99% Adobe RGB gamut, and, unlike with Wacoms, you get two pens included.
Dubbed Pen Display 16 Lite, the tablet itself is the same, and you still get the two included pens (one thin and one with three buttons), along with nibs and a drawing glove.
What you don’t get is the Quick Keys remote and Mobile Easel stand. The former in particular is quite a big catch because the Pen Display doesn’t have the on-device buttons of rival offering and doesn’t support multi-touch gestures, which makes the shortcut buttons on the remote very useful for allowing efficient workflows. That said, you can still use shortcuts on your computer keyboard instead.
Xencelabs is billing the new package as providing the essentials for portable use, while the Bundle provides a more complete setup for desk-based drawing.
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