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Introduction and Overview
The Wacom
®
Cintiq
™
18SX Interactive Pen Display combines an LCD display with a Wacom tablet.
This gives you a direct point-and-draw-on-screen interface that can be used with a Personal Com-
puter (PC), Macintosh
®
computer, or SGI
™
or Sun
®
workstation. Cintiq’s basic components
include a Wacom tablet internally mounted behind an 18.1” diagonal TFT color LCD display, and
Wacom’s Grip Pen.
Your Cintiq Interactive Pen Display offers a number of significant advantages over a standard
display:
■ Integrated input and display
■ Pressure-sensitive drawing directly on the display screen
■ Reduced power consumption and heat generation
■ Requires less work space
■ Flicker free and easier on the eyes.
Cintiq comes with a modular display stand, which allows you to easily rotate the Interactive Pen
Display unit to any orientation, and to adjust the incline of the working surface to any angle
between 13 and 70 degrees. You can also lock Cintiq in either a landscape or portrait orientation.
If you prefer to use Cintiq on your lap, simply lift the display unit out of the stand. Please refer to
Working with Cintiq on page 32 for more information.
The workspace, and how you interact with it, was an important consideration in the design and
development of Cintiq. Regardless of how you prefer to work with the Interactive Pen Display,
you will find that Cintiq is ideally suited to a variety of diverse professional fields and applications.
Cintiq is especially useful in the fields of animation, graphics design, 3D modeling, and video and
film post-production. Some additional areas of use include architectural design, AV presentations,
industrial design, medical imaging, textile design, and any others where direct manipulation of the
screen image is useful.
This manual describes how to install the Cintiq hardware and software. It also describes how to
use Cintiq, the Grip Pen, and the modular display stand.
The Interactive Pen Display and the Cintiq stand are packed separately. Refer to Unpacking Cintiq
on page 12 before removing Cintiq or the stand from the box. Please follow all instructions
carefully.
