Podium monitor pens

Summary

Wacom monitor pens come in different models which are not interchangeable. This illustrated article provides information for both users and technicians.

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Wacom interactive monitors 

  • Wacom Cintiq 24HD Touch Interactive Monitors enable presenters to write on the surface of the screen, but only with a pen designed to interact with a specific model.

  • This older model monitor has lots of buttons on the side margins.

Wacom old-school monitor with physical buttons on both margins

  • It requires the Wacom Grip Pen, a bulky device equipped with a waisted rubberized grip area, two customisable side-switches and a pressure-sensitive eraser.

  • The Grip Pen is stored in a holster on the back of the screen.

Old school monitor - Wacom Grip Pen

  • Replacements for these older model pens come with a little zip-lock bag of replacement nibs.

Zip-lock bags of old-model Wacom monitor pen nibs

The newer model Wacom monitor

...is simpler, more compact and easier to handle.

Upgraded Wacom monitor

Note the absence of buttons.

This monitor requires a distinctly improved Wacom Pen.

Upgraded Wacom monitor pen

If a Wacom pen will not write on the monitor screen, call 734-615-0100 [Prompt 1]

or send an online request for help:  https://lsa.umich.edu/technology-services/help-support.html

 

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Article ID: 10062
Created
Thu 4/20/23 3:03 PM
Modified
Fri 5/29/26 9:58 AM