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My girlfriend treated me to this drawing tablet monitor last week. After getting over the flu, I have managed to try it out for several days, so thought to do a review.

# Unboxing
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This came direct from Amazon and, as is their way, it arrived in a box way too big. Once inside, it's plain packaging was simply adorned with two small stickers; one indicated it was made in China, the other described the product as a Ugee HK 1560 Interactive Pen Display. Upon opening the box, I was presented with a thin piece of hardboard which served to protect the monitor from bumps and scrapes. Lifting that off I saw the adjustable stand packed tightly inside Styrofoam. To the left there was a long thin cardboard box, inside which I found all of the included accessories. I removed this, the Styrofoam, and then lifted the display out of the box.

# What's included?
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The display came with its adjustable stand already attached. This is removable should I ever want to attach the display to a monitor arm. Inside the accessories box came 2 pressure sensitive pens complete with a USB charging lead for each. There was also a pen stand that doubles up as a storage caddy for the included 8 pen nibs; together with the 2 already in the pens, I have 10 nibs to last me for a while. Ugee also supplied a 2 finger glove so that your skin doesn't touch the screen while drawing. Also included was a HDMI cable, USB cable to connect the display to my PC, power brick and leads. There was also a driver CD but I downloaded fresh drivers from Ugee's website.

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*Pens, stand, pen nibs and glove*</center>

# Connecting and setting it up
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This took no time at all. I plugged one end of the HDMI lead into my PC's graphics card, the other into the display. Next, I plugged the supplied USB lead into the computer and ran it, with the power lead, to the monitor.

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*Top to bottom: HDMI, USB, Power*</center>

Next I installed the drivers. As I had Wacom drivers already installed for my small graphics tablet, I had to uninstall them. No biggie, I wasn't planning on using it again. As I already had 2 monitors attached, it took a little fiddling around in the driver software to tell it which monitor to use the pen on. I then set about testing the pen sensitivity in the Wintab software.

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*Thick line to thin*</center>

Although the pen tracking seemed good already, I decided to run through the 9 point calibration. I was presented with crosshairs with a central red dot, which I had to hit as accurately as I could with the pen tip 9 times, left to right, top to bottom.

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*Calibration*</center>

As mentioned previously, the stand is adjustable. I only have to reach over the top, pull up a tab and adjust the angle to suit, letting go of the tab when I am satisfied. The stand is quite solid and, thanks to the rubber coating on the bottom rod, it does not slip around under use.

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*Back of display, stand adjuster tab at the top*</center>

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*Different angles of display*</center>

# What's it like in use?
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The display is a crisp 1080p, bright and colourful. The viewing angles are fantastic from this IPS display. The quality puts my current displays to shame. The pens have 2048 levels of pressure, and I quickly got used to adjusting my pen strokes while using them. They are comfortable to hold and have a slightly rubberized grip so they don't slip in your hand. The pen tracking is spot on and while drawing, the tracking and pressure are very predictable; my stroke is where I expect it and the strength and width of my strokes are easily controlled. The monitor may get slightly warm after hours of use, but not uncomfortably so.

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*Sculpting in Zbrush*</center>

# Anything I don't like about it?
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There are a couple of little niggles: firstly, yes it would be great if it had express keys like a Cintiq does, especially as the bezel seems so big. But on the other hand, this pen display is less than half the price of a similarly sized offering from Wacom.

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*Cintiq 13HD*</center>

The pens also suffer from a minor problem: while you can change the function of the 2 buttons on them, they cannot be keyboard shortcuts, just mouse button presses. I would have liked the option to change one for the SHIFT key and another for ALT. Besides these very minor things, there is nothing else I think detracts from this great product. Compared to the offerings from the big boys at Wacom, this is very competitively priced and does an awesome job.

# <center>Overall rating 9.5/10</center>
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The link to the Amazon page featuring this Pen Display is [HERE](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ugee-HK1560-Graphics-Resolution-Rechargeable/dp/B01M4GDNGC) if you are interested in finding out more.
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