CEP02 active stylus

[Alex]

danisi wrote:

I received the active pen CEP02 for my CUBE iwork10 today.
Windows, pressure is NOT detected. It works but there is no sensitivity!
I tried on photoshop and windows paint.
Do I have to do something to recognise sensitivity??

Don’t know about photoshop, but it seems that paint doesn’t support pressure sensitivity. It worked for me out of the box with onenote.

[diassuncao]

Hi

I am looking for a stylus (and keyboard) enabled tablet and was almost buying a Cube iWork 10 before reading this thread and facing dlink377 impressions. Now I am looking again. Do you have any recomendations?

[Anonymous]

Hi, I don’t have the cube active stylus CEP02. Instead I have Trekstor’s active stylus which works pretty well (pressure sensitivity is good enough to sketch and do some artwork). It looks identical to the Cube Active Stylus but it is pricey and mostly available in Austria and Germany. Here is the link:

http://www.trekstor.de/detail-accessories/product/active-stylus-1.html

I don’t use PhotoShop so I can’t comment on it. The pen itself has poor reviews on Amazon but I have owned this pen for 3 months now I can say that it is good overall and there are some limitations being a non-wacom pen. Majority of the drawing and art software have been carefully tuned and developed to work flawlessly with Wacom, so it is not surprising if the stylus (Goodix driver?) works better in some software applications yet has a dismal performance in others. I have compared the pen with Wacom (HP Elitebook 2760p (my partner’s tablet-pc,  and also on my galaxy note 2 S-pen). Although my cube tablet is new, and I have used it for a day unfortunately I ended up scratching my tablet REALLY BADLY. So I have ordered tempered glass from Amazon. Prior to my cube tablet, I used my Trekstor active stylus on my Trekstor Surftab Duo W1, which I think must have some coating or lamination as there are NO scratches on the display. I bought the Cube iwork 10 tablet as 2 GB RAM on my Surftab was insufficient for my needs, and I knew that I could use the Trekstor stylus and the Trekstor keyboard dock. I miss my Surtab’s display ie, NO SCRATCHES but I dont miss the poor tablet freezing on me every few hours.

Here are my observations so far which maybe helpful:

1. One must USE a tempered glass protection before using the pen. The surface of the Trekstor tablet is coated but I have no details, but the display of Cube iwork 10 is soft and can easily be etched.
2. The pressure sensitivity varied dramatically in different builds of Windows 10. It was fine with the 1511 version, and after the updates in the last fortnight I felt I needed to apply more pressure in both the Trekstor and Cube tablets. In the anniversary Windows 10 build which I installed last month on my Trekstor Tablet, the stylus worked really well. Then I noticed that after the recent updates the pressure sensitivity fell, I felt that I had to apply more force to get the stylust to work properly. So I reset my pc with the factory image ie, 1511 build without the updates and it was fine again. After the updates the pressure sensitivity issues returned (both on Cube and on Trekstor).
3. The pressure sensitivity is comparable to the Wacom in the following drawing applications: Artrage, Graphiter, Autodesk Sketchbook and Krita.  Some pencil tools in Autodesk Sketchbook don’t work as well as with the Wacom pen on the Elitebook or S-pen on Samsung Galaxy Note 2. My best experience was in Graphiter before the updates. But there is no pressure sensitivity in Mypaint with my active stylus on Cube iwork 10.
4. The stylus works better in Windows 10 than in Android. I have Autodesk and Artrage on both Windows and Android partitions. Sadly, the pen is slow in Android and doesn’t work so well. I will try other apps after I get my tempered glass and report my findings here later.
5. Compared to Wacom pen I like the feel of the Trekstor active stylus. It is very nice to hold and it is thin. This is my personal perference of course. The nib of the pen can’t be changed but the nib is still fine after  3 months of extensive use. Also the battery is still ok.

Perhaps once I have the tempered glass I will put some visual examples here for you to compare. I am not a professional or even an experienced artist, but I am learning to draw. Switching from a Wacom pen to the  Trekstor Active stylus takes some time ie days to adjust. Bascially, I feel it is a different tool and one has to work with its limitations.  But I think if you want a flawless drawing exprience, then it is worth getting a Wacom-based tablet pc. The issue is whether the software developers provide enough support for the non-Wacom technologies. The inherent problems are not entirely with the pen-technology. Perhpas the software developers will take this issue into account. Any opinions?

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