The Intuos3 Special Edition is a new pen tablet from Wacom who are celbrating their 25-year anniversary. With a stylish black finish and matching input devices including a special edition Intuos3 Airbrush, the Wacom Intuos3 Special Edition is available in A5 Wide and A4 sizes and also ships with Corel Painter Essentials. The Intuos3 Special Edition costs £304.99 including VAT for the A5 Wide and £379.99 for the A4 size.

Wacom Press Release

Wacom launches Intuos3 Special Edition for creative professionals

Celebrating 25 years delivering innovation

As part of its 25-year anniversary celebrations of innovation, Wacom, the leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays, today introduces Intuos3 Special Edition for creative professionals. Available in the popular sizes A5 Wide and A4, the Special Edition sets itself apart from the other Intuos3 models. with its stylish black finish and matching input devices including a special edition Intuos3 Airbrush.

The Intuos3 Airbrush is the most popular accessory in the Intuos3 series. With its innovative finger wheel, it is the perfect complement to the Intuos3 Grip Pen. The finger wheel can be set to one of up to 1,024 different steps enabling the precise control of the quantity of digital colour or the strength of a digital effect and when not in action, the finger wheel remains in its last used setting. Additionally, its pressure and tilt sensitivity makes it the perfect tool for everyone involved with the digital creation, editing or retouching of images.

Intuos3 family features
The Intuos3 Special Edition tablets offer the same superior features known from the Intuos3 family. These include eight programmable ExpressKeys that are pre-configured with frequently used modifier keys, and two Touch Strips that act like a scroll bar to allow zooming and scrolling in various applications. Due to the 5,080 dpi resolution and 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity in the Grip Pen tip and eraser, Intuos3 offers a highly accurate way of working. Each pen tablet is able to recognise the tilt angle of a Grip Pen of up to 60 degrees and all input devices offer Tool ID, where in supported applications, the tablet automatically recognises the relevant tool with its individual settings when the device is brought into contact with the tablet.

Intuos3 Special Edition comes with Corel Painter Essentials, which completely supports the Intuos3 Airbrush with a set of corresponding tools. The Intuos3 Airbrush is also supported by a number of applications such as Adobe Photoshop (version 7 and higher) and Corel Painter.

With the launch of Intuos3 Special Edition, Wacom has also integrated new features in the driver for all its professional products to streamline workflow and enhance productivity. These include:

Display Toggle
The Display Toggle function is especially beneficial to those using the Intuos3 Special Edition in a multiple monitor environment, as users can work with the Intuos3 tablet with all monitors or just one. By simply pressing an ExpressKey on the tablet, the user can toggle between a default assignment and a user-defined assignment for each monitor.

Pan/Scroll
This function can be assigned to any ExpressKey or tool key and makes dragging any document or image on the screen in any direction possible. By pressing the appropriate button and moving the pen over the active surface of the tablet, the document or image is moved in the direction indicated by the pen.

Pricing and availability
The Intuos3 Special Edition tablets are available immediately from Computers Unlimited priced at £304.99 including VAT for the Intuos3 Special Edition A5 Wide and £379.99 for the Intuos3 Special Edition A4 size. The products carry a two years warranty.

Information on Wacom Europe’s range of products and services can be found at www.wacom.eu.

About Wacom
Wacom Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of Wacom Company, Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange 6727). Founded in 1983, Wacom is a global company based in Japan with subsidiaries and affiliate offices around the world to support marketing and distribution in over 150 countries. Wacom’s vision to bring people and technology closer together through natural interface technologies has made it the world’s leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays, and digital interface solutions. The advanced technology of Wacom’s intuitive input devices has been used to create some of the most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashion and designs around the world and provides business and home users with their leading interface technology to express their personality. Millions of customers are using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology. The company also offers its products as OEM solutions to leading manufacturers serving incremental markets.

Wacom’s patented digital interface technology, called Penabled®, is also offered as an integrated solution to strategic partners. Most Tablet PC manufacturers count on the advanced features and reliability of Penabled technology to deliver a superior pen experience. Penabled technology is also playing an essential role in the development of leading-edge mobile devices.

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