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Review : Wacom Graphire 2 Tablet
Wacom Corporation is one of the few companies that makes Graphical digitizer tablets. Not only that but it's their only product. Most of the tablets out there are made by Wacom. Whether you are using a PC , Mac, Sun or Silicon Graphics , Wacom has a solution.
Tablets have been around for a long time and are heavily used in image editing and design applications. It allows much more precise control over the drawing program than a simple mouse can do.
The graphire 2 comes as a USB device and can work in conjunction with both PC and MAC. Also supplied is a cordless scroll mouse that works as a replacement for the pen.
How a tablets works.
There are different principles on which tablets are based:
Switches : The oldest technology is based on a mechanical contact matrix. Positioning the pen and pushing would close one out of so many contacts. The drawback is that as precision needs to increase the amount of contacts needs to increase , running the cost of such a tablet sky-high. And this had it's limits because of contact size.
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