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Wacom CTH661 Sliver Bamboo Fun (Factory Refurbished)

Wacom CTH661 Sliver Bamboo Fun (Factory Refurbished)

(35 customer reviews)

List Price:	$199.95
Our Price:	$84.95
You Save:	$115.00 (58%)

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Description:

Bamboo Fun lets you get hands-on with your creative projects, giving you the benefits of Multi-Touch along with the comfort and precision of Wacom's ergonomically-designed pen. With Multi-Touch, you can navigate, scroll, and work with simple gestures in an area larger than on mobile devices or laptop trackpads. For precision work, pick up the pressure-sensitive pen to draw, sketch, edit photos, and add handwritten elements to your creations. The generous size of Bamboo Fun gives you lots of space for creative freedom, making it simple and comfortable to use. Bamboo Fun works with your existing computer: desktop or laptop, PC or Mac. Attach it to a standard USB port and set it comfortably by your keyboard. You can even customize your Bamboo Fun experience by assigning your own shortcuts to the four ExpressKeys. Available in a stylish silver color, Bamboo Fun will complement your current setup. It includes valuable additions that make it ideal for your creative projects. * What's in the Box *: Bamboo Fun tablet, Bamboo Fun pen, Quick Start guide, installation CD (includes driver software, interactive tutorial and user's manual), and software DVD.

Features:

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Powerful tablet helps you create digital art, embellish photos, draw by hand, and more

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Intuitive Multi-Touch system lets you navigate your computer using just your fingertips

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Included stylus features 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity; provides a pen-on-paper feel

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Compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP (Service Pack 2), and Mac OS X (10.4.8 or higher)

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Refurbished by Wacom with 1-year warranty

Product Details:

Product Length:	13.3 inches
Product Width:	8.8 inches
Product Height:	0.2 inches
Product Weight:	4.0 pounds
Package Length:	16.0 inches
Package Width:	10.0 inches
Package Height:	4.0 inches
Package Weight:	4.0 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 35 reviews

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Customer Reviews:

Average Customer Review: 4.5

( 35 customer reviews )
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25 of 26 found the following review helpful:

Great Deal for the PriceMar 30, 2011
By Severian
I'd been wanting to get a Wacom tablet for some time, since most of my artist friends use them for their work, but I just wasn't able to come up with the $400 for a new Intuos. We starving artists (and there's many of us) have to come up with other legal means to get all those fancy computer tools.
So when I saw the listing for this refurbished Bamboo Fun, which is essentially an Intuos 3 with its over 1000 levels of sensitivity, at less than half the price of a new Intuos, I jumped. And I'm glad I did.
The Bamboo arrived a day early from it's scheduled time, which was a great way to start. It was unmarked, no scratches from previous ownership, and the Corel Painter Essentials 4.0 that came with it works wonderfully. It also comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements and a program I'm unfamiliar with called Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0. The latter two programs would not work on my system, because I have a Macintosh Mini that runs on the PowerPC chip, and these two programs are designed for the Intel chip. This was unfortunate, but I'm not really all that put out, since I already have a full version of Photoshop. It's something to keep in mind when ordering.
Getting the Bamboo set up was absurdly simple, and as soon as I started messing around with the pen, I started mentally screaming to myself "WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS SOONER???!!!" It is SO wonderful being able to do detail work in Photoshop and Illustrator with the dexterity of a pen or pencil instead of a big, clunky mouse that gets your hand cramped up from the muscular stress. Drawing is easy once you get used to looking at the screen instead of your sketchbook. I'm still in the process of learning what the tablet can do, but I have absolutely no regrets about buying it.
One niggling critique I do have is the small programs that come with the tablet. They're designed for kids, really, and are almost useless for working artists. It does have one program that, with a little work by Wacom, could be really wonderful. This is the Doodler, a little sketchbook drawing program, with it's own drawing interface screen. My main hassle with it is the annoying way it has of making a big blob on the page when you put the pen down anywhere. When you actually start drawing, the line quality is just fine, but when you stop, and then start a new line elsewhere, again it puts a big blob on the page. Maybe I've got the sensitivity controls too fine or something, but I haven't figured out how to make it quit doing that. If this issue could be taken care of, the program would be a lot more fun to use. But again, this is a minor issue.
For all you starving artists out there who are low on spending cash, I would heartily recommend picking up the Refurbished Bamboo Fun. It's worth the money, is plenty sensitive enough to do most of the work you'll end up doing, and if not it will at least get you started until you can get enough money scraped together for the Intuos 4 with all it's bells and whistles. Get it. Do it NOW!

25 of 28 found the following review helpful:

defective, showed visible wearMay 10, 2011
By Ant001
I draw on a Cintiq at work, and use an Intuous 4 medium at home. I also own a Vistablet, so I know that Wacom is by far the better brand. I thought this less expensive tablet would be helpful to my wife, on her Windows 7 PC. The refurbished item was about $35 less than the new one and other reviews were mostly favorable so I thought I'd take the chance and try it. The reviews led me to believe that the refurb item looked almost new, but mine showed obvious wear and the pen nib was worn down almost to the pen body. This item should never have left the warehouse if any proper quality control procedures had been followed.
I wasted a lot of time trying to install, uninstall, re-install the driver software until finally realizing the power indicator light on the tablet didn't change color as expected. I won't be buying refurbished any time soon. It has been more than 3 weeks since I sent the item back and I still haven't gotten my refund...

20 of 22 found the following review helpful:

Wacom BF Factory Refurbished ReviewNov 07, 2010
By charles
The product arrived on time. The tablet does have some minor scratches that show it has been used, nothing to be worried about though. You can tell that the box has been opened before, but if this little details are not a problem to you and you could use the discount, I would recommend you to give it a go. It's really practically new and it works perfectly well. It has a 1 year warranty as well.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

AwesomeJun 07, 2011
By Samuel Silver "Sambion"
General:
I do web development for small businesses and the pictures they provide often need a little editing or touch up to remove "thumbs" that were in front of the lens. I also use it to create the graphics for the website. This tablet is perfect for that. It is definitely not a Cintiq, or an Intuos, but it is great for the beginner to intermediate range. Basically if you don't need to use it more than 5 or 6 hours a day, this is great. (i.e. You are a graphic artist for a living.)
The only feature that could make this better would be to sense the pen tilt like the Intuos and Cintiq do. I mainly got it for business, but I am starting to just fiddle around drawing in Photoshop after my work is done. It's just way too much fun. I'm not an "artsy" kind of person but this actually makes it kinda fun. I occasionally come across reviews that say these don't provide the "fine control" of a mouse in Photoshop. This kind of statement is made by someone who doesn't know anything about tablets or Photoshop. You can get amazing control, if you use it like it is supposed to be used. Making quick and accurate selections with this is about half the time it used to take me with a mouse.
There is a small learning curve going from a mouse to a tablet. It takes some getting used to. Make sure you try it for a few days before giving up. It is a totally new, and cool experience using a pen for the first time to click on things on the screen.

Pros:
The price, size, and features. The size is just big enough to be usable, but still small enough to be portable. That said I don't carry it around that often, so a bigger one would be nice. When buying a drawing tablet, remember, size does matter. If you plan on using it at all seriously, bigger is better. This tablet came with replaceable pen tips. (See cons)
The textured surface gives it just the right feel for drawing.
The pressure sensitivity is great. I have really good control over how my lines look and there is very little jitter in the input.
All the buttons can be configured to do something different. Unlike the Intuos, or the Cintiq, you are somewhat limited as to what you can make the buttons do. But they do what I need them to do. I usually only use the buttons on the pen, and one, or two on the side.

Cons:
The pen tip does need to be replaced every so often. There are some tips on the internet where you can use weed trimmer string instead.
The size, bigger is better.
It doesn't have mental telepathy.

Summary:
If you need a pen tablet, this is an amazing deal for the size and price with all of the features. Definitely worth it.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Great price and good qualityMar 24, 2011
By Vivien
I go to an art college and I was looking around for a good tablet while keeping within a reasonable budget. This is the second tablet I've ever bought because my first one was not pressure sensitive, and I'm very satisfied with this purchase. The description warned about possible slight scratches or dings on the tablet, but I was surprised it was in such great condition; there were hardly any noticeable scratches at all. It might be that I just lucked out on one of the better ones that came out of the factory... but honestly if you don't care about little things like that, just get the factory refurbished because it saves a lot of money.

On the tablet itself, it is obviously not as savvy or super-sensitive as the Intuos line, but it picks up pen pressure pretty well. The size may be a little on the big side (it's only about 2 inches shorter than my huge laptop), but it's pretty thin and lightweight so it's not much of a hassle to carry. The only problem I have with it is sometimes after I plug it into my laptop, it takes a while for it to "connect", or for the computer to register that it's been plugged in. I don't know if it's just a problem with my computer or with the tablet itself, but it can be a bother. The installation was also a little slow as I had to download the newest driver from the Wacom website in order to get the pen pressure function working with Photoshop.

All in all very handy, so if you're a student it works great and gets the job done without having you spend too much.

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