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Wacom End of Life

I've never owned a stylus/tablet. I heard Wacom tablets are the industry standard. My university library had a tablet for students to borrow. I figured I'd try it out before purchasing my own.

I took it home, followed the installation instructions, and was notified that the tablet was no longer supported. I rolled back to the recommended drivers, but now the Wacom Center won't launch on my Mac.

The tablet is a CTH-690/K. It looks brand new (The pen holder has not even been stretched). Is this normal? Are there community drivers? If not, I will likely look for a different brand to purchase from.

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u/Old-Man-12 — 2 days ago
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Samsung z fold 8 and digital drawing / painting

Hi everybody!!!
I’m a happy user of z fold 6, which I mainly took beside all normal using, especially for digital drawing and painting.
I use sketchbook pro and HiPaint with s-pen, and everything works like a charm!
I’m so interested from z fold 8 form factory.
But I’ve noticed that as z fold 7, z fold 8 and ultra both came without pen integration and support.
Does anybody use zfold 8 for digital drawing / painting?
Does anybody had experience of some stylo which works good with it?
Thanks

u/Longjumping-Word3381 — 5 days ago
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Organic Chemistry

For those of you who have taken Organic Chemistry in college. What do you think is the best MPP 2.0 pen for your laptop/ipad that helped in that class? If it helps, I have an "HP Envy x360 2-in-1 Laptop 14-fc0xxx."

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u/Medicine_Today — 5 days ago
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I draw on the Samsung S26 Ultra;

I draw on the Samsung S26 Ultra; the stylus is really convenient. There aren't any highly sensitive brushes yet, but it's still a super convenient phone for anyone who loves to draw.

u/Veronicha_vrbvart — 8 days ago
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Print-style planner PDFs always felt wrong on e-ink, so I spent the summer designing one for the reMarkable from scratch

https://tapleafstudio.com 

I've had my reMarkable for a while and kept bouncing off planner PDFs — most are print designs exported to PDF: heavy black gridlines that compete with your handwriting, tiny link zones made for a mouse, and layouts that assume color. So I built one designed for e-ink from the first pixel.

What that ended up meaning:

- Every page is one tap away. Month grid → tap a date → that day's page. Tap the header → back to the month. The 2027 edition is 445 pages with 3,772 internal links, and navigation never needs the scrubber.

- The lines are soft grey, not black. On e-ink, your handwriting should be the darkest thing on the page. All structure sits back at roughly 60% grey and your pen pops.

- Tap targets are sized for fingers, not cursors. Big header zones, generous margins (nothing hides under the UI edges).

- Vector everything, so page turns stay instant — the whole 445-page file is under 1.5 MB.

Day pages have a top-3, an hourly rail, and dot-grid notes. Weeks and months link into everything. There's a dated 2027 edition, an undated one (write your own dates, start any week), and a 16-month Sept 2026–Dec 2027 edition.

I'm the maker, so consider this my honest disclosure — I sell these (link in comments to keep the post clean). Launch week there's 20% off with the code TAPLEAF20.

Happy to answer anything about designing for e-ink — the grey-value testing alone was a rabbit hole. And if there's a layout you wish existed (Paper Pro Move owners, I see you), tell me. I'd rather build what people actually want.

u/RadiantToday961 — 8 days ago
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Which stylus do you prefer for eink screens?

I just realised that I can use my Samsung S pen on my Boox Note Air5 C, and it has opened up a world of new possibilities for me. I can even switch the nibs! Since when was that a feature!

Anyways, now I wanna dive deep into this and make sense of what stylus+nib will give the best feeling of pen on paper with the Boox NA5C screen. Ergonomics, friction, wear&tear, aesthetics I'm looking at all parameters now. What are your suggestions?

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u/Torpedo311 — 9 days ago
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Does the Integrated Thinkpad Pen in X13/L13 yoga (G2) have palm rejection?

hi guys im planning to buy eitherx13 yoga gen 2 or l13 yoga gen 2 depends entirely on my grades hahaha but i am a digital artist and also i want to turn my notes into digital ones since im a math student. how are these models like if youve owned it? Does Krita and other simple apps work on it fine? What ab the integrated stylus? Does it have palm rejection? My hands r pretty small so the size is not an issue for me. Thanks

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u/weeee215 — 11 days ago