Looking for a graphics tablet that doesn't start drawing until stylus touches surface

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December 16, 2019
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I'm looking for a graphics tablet with a wireless stylus that doesn't start drawing until the stylus actually touches the surface.

What I want is a tablet that reacts exactly like a pencil. Move it 1/1000 of a millimeter above the surface, and no dot or line... touch the surface and you get a dot or line... press harder you get a denser line.

I've owned several in the past, and each one of them started making marks while the stylus was above the surface of the tablet. I last checked a couple of years ago, and at that time, Wacom told me that all of their styluses would start reacting with the tablet a millimeter or more above the tablet surface.

Any recommendations?

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carlosgarro

Community Expert

On Wacom tablets, the movement is recorded, but the stylus does not paint or draw until you touch the surface.

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bobw111Author

Inspiring

Do you mean the cursor starts moving, but no line is made until you touch the surface?

Maybe that's what keeps throwing me off. I don't want the cursor to move until it actually starts making a line.

carlosgarro

Community Expert

Do you mean the cursor starts moving, but no line is made until you touch the surface?

Yes.

I think the tablet you are looking for does not exist. Almost all manufacturers use Magnetic Induction, and this technology requires a space to calculate when the stylus moves or touches the surface.

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