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Review on ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Enhanced GAOMON PD2200 Full-Laminated Pen Display - 92% NTSC, 8192 Pressure Levels, Battery-Free Tilt-Support Stylus, 8 Touch Buttons, 21.5'' Drawing Tablet Monitor with Adjustable Stand by Katie Garcia

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Ok, drivers and general functionality can be improved.

Almost a drawing screen. Is working. I haven't used the others and this is my first experience with a pen display. First were the drivers, not really. There is also no customer support. Not sure if it's due to Covid19? What drivers don't do is work the way they should. I had to work a bit to create a ghetto, but I made it. They say the display can face left or sideways but the driver setting doesn't even work so you have to flip the screen in windows settings. In fact, none of the settings work. I think this driver is for another display that barely works for this one. The pen works well and I think that's all it needs. Gap Man needed a competitor for another 20-inch display that I could try. I'll have to return it, although I'm seriously considering it. My next problem is the buttons on the display. I wanted to flip the display for right-handed users, and as a result, the display's shortcut keys and control buttons ended up on the bottom. Every time I don't adjust the screen position, I either hit the zoom button or the brightness button or the rotate buttons, which is really annoying. Could have done differently. You could also somehow make the buttons visible. They blend into the screen, which of course is less distracting, but without a flashlight I can't even tell where they are or what they are. I work on computers in very neutral lighting and generally there is little light. Especially from behind. It's different in my actual painting studio, of course, but the light in my computer room is neutral for a different reason and can't be changed. Anyway, this whole flip-flop thing isn't well thought out. As I said, probably just a quick product to compete with others. Next I have the actual usability of this product. So far I really like digital painting. I tried about 3 paintings in 4 days for about 5-6 hours at a time. I have to say that the screen is very responsive to the stylus. Not sure if it's a driver or software, but the pressure sensitivity isn't what I thought. Transitioning from thick lines to thin lines is not as easy as I first thought. It could be software or a driver, I'm not sure. I'm using Corel Painter 2019,20/20 and Photoshop cs6 and also trying Krita and some others to see what I like. I like Painter's interface. Photoshop is too expensive and it's a subscription. I'm running NVIDIA GTX 1070 GPU on Win10 with i7 and 64GB or RAM so it's somewhere in between what I do. I also ran it on a Radion card, but it was a bit slow and the graphics quality on the screen wasn't that good. Next i will try gtx1080ti and nvidia quattro card. May I add to this review? So far this screen is great, but not as big as it could be. Cable management leaves a lot to be desired as there are 3 cables, HDMI, power and USB. I'm not sure if I can use just one or the other. It brings me the instruction manual. While I'm glad to see they have an online manual, they included a paper copy in the box, which is unnecessary because it's online. The assembly instructions are not well done. Read them a second time before installing the driver just to be clear. Other than what I've said here, overall the product is fine. I like it, but could be better. And as many others say this is a good screen for the price but there are others and they frankly look more attractive. So I would recommend researching more reviews before purchasing. The only reviews I could find before purchasing were in other languages and the ones that weren't were from hobbyists like me. They had a few good moments and I was ultimately won over by the speed of delivery and delivery time. So I'm not totally disappointed, I'll try it a few more times to see if I can use it.

Pros
  • OS SUPPORT AND SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY
Cons
  • The list will be long.