Features - The Technology: The New, Improved Wacom Tip SensorTip Sensor Feature #1: Feather touch starting pressure Intuos4 technology is built upon a new Wacom Tip Sensor technology that allows the Intuos4 to achieve a feather-light starting pressure. The Intuos4 pen now is activated and begins producing marks on your software's canvas at the lightest touch, simulating the immediacy of the touch of pens, pencils, brushes and other artist utensils. Via the driver control panel, you can adjust the sensitivity of the pen by altering either the pressure curve to simulate a softer or harder tip or the click threshold to change the starting activation pressure (minimum 1 gram)! ExpressKeys

The Intuos4 ambidextrous design puts all the ExpressKeys and the Touch Ring on the side of your non-dominant hand so that you can have your most frequently used shortcuts and other convenient functions at your fingertips.

With all of the different functions that we've packed in, you'll be itching to customize your Intuos4 ExpressKeys:

• Clicks: Click, Right Click, Middle Click, Double Click, Click Lock, 4th Click, 5th Click
• Keystroke...: Enables you to set keyboard shortcuts.
• Modifier...: Enables you to simulate SHIFT, ALT, CTRL for Windows, and SHIFT, OPTION, COMMAND, CONTROL on a Mac.
• Radial Menu: Displays a Radial Menu on your screen. Each level of the hierarchical menu consists of eight menu slices which may contain various features and options to choose from or customize. Up to three levels for a total of 512 possible settings.
• Back: enables you to move back one page in browsers and other applications.
• Forward: enables you to move forward in browsers and other applications.
• Pan/Scroll: Enables you to position a document or image in any direction within the active pane by pressing a tablet or pen button set for PAN/SCROLL and then dragging with the pen tip across the tablet’s active area.
• Show Desktop: Minimizes all open windows to display a clean desktop.
• Switch Application: Brings up the application switching dialog with focus on the next open application. On Windows Vista systems running Aero, Flip 3D will be activated with focus on the next open applications.
• Open/Run...: Opens a dialog box where you can select a specific application, file, or script to launch.
• Precision Mode...: Changes the mapping around the current pen tip position such that you must move the pen twice as far for the screen cursor to cover the same distance on the display screen. To activate, press and hold the tool button to which this function is assigned. Releasing the button returns to normal mapping.
• Show Settings: Displays a diagram of the tablet ExpressKeys and Touch Ring, showing the current function settings for each control.
• Disable: Disables the ExpressKey.
• Application Defined: Reports only the button number to the application. This is for applications, such as CAD programs, that have built-in support for the Intuos4 Mouse or Lens Cursor. This function may also be used by some highly integrated applications for direct control of the pen tablet ExpressKeys and Touch Ring.
• Default: Returns the ExpressKey to its default setting.
• Mode Toggle...: Toggles between pen mode and mouse mode.
• Display Toggle: (For multiple monitor systems.) Enables you to toggle the current tablet mapping and screen cursor between different displays when you press an ExpressKey that has been assigned this function.
• Tablet PC: (Tablet PCs and Windows Vista systems that support the Tablet PC Input Panel.)
  • Tablet PC Input Panel: Opens the Tablet PC Input Panel when you press a tool button set to this function.
  • Tablet PC Defined: Sets the button function according to the setting found in the Windows Vista "Tablet PC Settings" and "Pen and Input Devices" control panels.
  • Journal: Opens Microsoft Journal in Windows Vista and Tablet PC systems that include Journal
• Macintosh-specific functions:
  • Ink Toggle: Toggles the “write anywhere” function of Inkwell on and off. Inkwell automatically recognizes and converts your handwriting into text and inserts it into a document. Ink must be turned on for this function to work. See your Macintosh help for information on working with Inkwell.
  • Expose: Tiles all open windows.

ExpressKey Displays - Never forget
We wanted to make sure that you know exactly what you have assigned to each key, so we included OLED ExpressKey Displays with Intuos4 Medium, Large and X-Large. Even when setting different shortcuts or functions to the ExpressKeys depending on the application (using application-specific profiles), the displays will ensure you always know what has been assigned. Take full advantage of this, and you'll find yourself working faster by reducing dependency on your keyboard. Touch Ring - Toggle between four functions
Our software partners, building canvas rotation into their products, insisted that we make the Intuos3 Touch Strip a Touch Ring instead. We went further by placing a toggle button in the middle giving the Touch Ring four different settings. Zoom, scroll, rotate your canvas in certain software, or customize to adjust brush size, opacity, etc. Industrial Design Features

• Ergonomic sloping edges for maximum comfort
• Ambidextrous design - rotate the tablet to switch hands How to change the orientation in the driver
• Active area surface - In combination with the various pen nibs, the material for the surface sheet was chosen and designed to give the Intuos4 a natural, realistic feel. Standard black sheets come with Intuos4 Small, Medium and Large, and the X-Large comes with a clear sheet. Clear sheets are also available for other sizes as an optional accessory.
• Easy-to-grab edges not only slope inward but curve to fit your fingers making the Intuos4 easy to pick up and reposition.
• Detachable USB cable makes it easy to store or transport your Intuos4 Tablet

Tablet resolution 5080 lines per inch of resolution in the tablet translates into smooth, detailed lines on your screen.