Wacom® Presents the Compact, Sophisticated Cintiq® 13HD touch

New Cintiq 13HD touch combines multi-touch with Wacom's renowned pen performance for a liberating and immersive digital creative experience.

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Mar 02, 2015, 11:00 ET

TOKYO and VANCOUVER, Wash., March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Wacom today announces the Cintiq 13HD touch for discerning professional creators of digital content. The latest addition to its lineup of creative pen displays, the Cintiq 13HD touch is designed to offer a natural pen and touch experience to designers, artists and image editors. Wacom's innovative creative pen display offers characteristic touch and pen capabilities, providing a digital workflow that emulates drawing or painting on paper or canvas.

The compact, sophisticated Cintiq 13HD touch is here!

The Cintiq 13HD touch's compact, slim and sophisticated design can be easily connected to both Mac and PC.computers. For complete comfort, whether positioning it on the desk or a lap, the Cintiq 13HD touch's adjustable stand is optimized for use in a choice of four settings – flat, 22°, 35° and 50°.

HD Quality Screen

Perfect for professional artists, graphics designers and photographers, the Cintiq 13HD touch 's brilliant screen displays 16.7 million colors to ensure crisp color quality. In addition, the wide-format HD LED display's 178° viewing angle and 1920x1080 resolution are particularly beneficial to those working with intricate graphics or images.

Touch of Class

While the Pro Pen, offering 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity as well as tilt recognition, drives the overall creative experience on the Cintiq 13HD touch, it is the newly added multi-touch integration that allows the user to navigate the desktop or rotate and zoom in and out of an image or illustration in a liberating and intuitive fashion. By combining pen and touch, users discover a virtually seamless workflow that feels natural and speeds production.

To further improve workflow and productivity, frequently used shortcut commands are available at the user's fingertips through the Cintiq 13HD touch's four customizable and application-specific ExpressKeys™ and Rocker Ring. Making use of these shortcuts can save valuable time by minimizing dependency on the keyboard.

With the proven Cintiq 13HD, Cintiq 22HD, Cintiq 22HD touch, Cintiq 27QHD, Cintiq 27QHD touch and Cintiq Companion 2 already in service, Wacom's Cintiq 13HD touch is a valuable addition to its pen display portfolio, which increasingly supports a variety of workflow requirements and budgets.

Pricing and Availability

The new Cintiq 13HD touch is priced at $999.95 (USD) and is scheduled to be available in early March at Wacom's eStore and other select retailers.

About Wacom

Founded in 1983, Wacom is a global company based in Japan (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6727) with subsidiaries and affiliate offices around the world to support marketing and distribution in over 150 countries. Wacom's vision to bring people and technology closer together through natural interface technologies has made it the world's leading manufacturer of interactive pen tablets and displays as well as of digital styli and solutions for saving and processing digital signatures. The advanced technology of Wacom's intuitive input devices has been used to create some of the most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashion and designs around the world and provides business and home users with their leading interface technology to express their personality.

Millions of people worldwide use the wireless and battery free pressure sensitive digital pen technology to operate their smart phones, media tablets or desktop computers and express their individual creativity. The company offers its products also as OEM solutions to leading manufacturers serving incremental markets. Wacom's interface technology, called Wacom feel IT technologies, is also offered as an integrated solution to strategic partners. Most Tablet PC manufacturers count on the advanced features and reliability of the brand to deliver a superior user interface experience.

For further details on Wacom products see: http://www.wacom.com

For more information, please contact:

Douglas A. Little
Sr. Public Relations Manager
Wacom Technology Services, Corp.
360-896-9833 x174
[email protected]

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