GAOMON PD2200 Drawing Tablet with Screen, Full-Laminated Digital Art Tablet with 8 Touch Buttons, Battery-Free Stylus, Tilt, 130% sRGB, 21.5 inch Graphics Tablet with Stand for Mac, Windows PC

I have had this tablet for about a year now and I can confidently say this is an amazing tablet! It a wonderful start out if you’re looking for a larger screen but don’t want to drop $1-2k on the higher name brands. I’ll give a couple pros and cons about the tablet and hopefully it’ll help those who are deciding if they want to get one! Pros! *Large screen! - I’ve have used the 12.9 iPad Pro for almost 6-7 years, but always wanted something larger. This screen suits my needs so well! I don’t like to use shortcuts so I’m able to adjust my program to accommodate my tools and windows. *Sensitivity - I was worried with it being a lower cost tablet that there would be some sensitivity issues…nope!! It’s perfect! The pressure can be adjusted to your desire as well, but I pretty much left it how it came out of the box! The is no lag, but I will say it depends on your computer. I noticed I got a bit of a lag on my iMAC, but that’s because it’s old and I had to unselect screen recording to have it optimized better. But I had no issues when I used it in my Windows gaming Laptop. Just keep in mind on your processor. That my only concern on that part. *Price- Is there more to be said?! It’s at an amazing price for someone wanting to start out on a larger screen but not sure if they want to go and drop over $1K on the name brand tablets. I will say I have use a Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 during a convention to try it out, and while obviously there are some differences in quality and performance, the Gaomon PD2200 performs insanely well for its price. *Accessories - tablet is build with its own stand and already installed so no assembly required or having to purchase a stand separately! You get the display pen along with additional tips and a holder for your pen! As I’ve mentioned I have had the tablet for nearly a year and have yet to change the tip yet. But I will say I don’t use it very often as life is busy, but I will put a guess if you use the tablet everyday you may just need to change the tip out every 3-4 months depending how much pressure you use. Now to the Cons: I don’t have many but the couple I would put out would obviously be involved on how it’s priced. You get an amazing and large sized tablet for the fraction of the name brands, but it’ll come with its downsides. First would be the buttons- the buttons to turn the tablet on/off are not synced properly so I have to maneuver around to have to turn off the tablet when I’m done. It gets annoying especially when it takes more than a minute to figure out the right spot to press. The short cuts being on the top right our a bit annoying. I wish they were at the bottom but like I mentioned earlier the screen is large enough that you an adjust your tools to your liking that suits your needs or you can just use keyboard shortcuts. This is also something to keep in mind if you’re a left hand drawer. It’ll be more difficult to select the shortcut keys. Display Match - Trying to display match was a nightmare. It took a lot of time and effort to get it remotely similar. I would suggest going to your computer graphics settings and set it that way. Trying to adjust it from the tablet itself is difficult and when the buttons not being syncs properly, it makes it even more frustrating when trying to adjust the display settings. I have used this both on Windows and Mac, and Windows took a little more time but iMac has preset settings to match with it, and it made it a little easier but it’s not perfect. So just something to keep in mind when drawing. Your colors will be off so always reference from a screen you’re used to and the tablet for best results! That’s all I really have. It’s still an amazing tablet if you’re starting out on wanting a larger screen! I love this tablet despite its quirks and really happy with my purchase!!

I’m honestly impressed with this Gaomon screen tablet! For the price, it delivers way more than expected. It’s a screen tablet, so you can see exactly what you're drawing, which makes the whole experience much more intuitive—especially if you're transitioning from a non-screen tablet. Keep in mind, it’s not Bluetooth, so you’ll need to use the included cables to connect it to your computer. But once everything is plugged in and set up, it runs beautifully. IMPORTANT: Make sure to install the correct drivers from Gaomon’s website that match your model. This step is crucial—once the drivers are installed, the tablet works like a dream. I've used it with both Krita and Clip Studio Paint, and the responsiveness and pressure sensitivity are fantastic. Overall, this is an amazing value for artists on a budget or anyone wanting a solid, reliable drawing experience without spending a fortune.

I've been a Gaomon Customer for years, and I've bought a multitude of their tablets from their PD1560, to their PD1161 and I've been satisfied with all of them. I bought this tablet because it had the size of the 1560 [but bigger] and the nice laminated screen that the 1161 had. I've loved these tablets and wanted to try something a big larger. Was a little cautious about the touch buttons, but I'll get to that later. The Screen itself is good quality and a great size compared to the overall tablet. The PD1560 had some issues displaying certain colours like purple, but this one doesn't have that problem as far as I'm aware. However, there is some pretty noticeable ghosting in the tablet screen. If you don't know what that is, its when you're moving images around on the screen, some red afterimage markings pop up and sometimes that can be a little strange or disorientating. The PD1560 also had some noticeable screen stick which this tablet does not have because it is laminated. My hands glide across it smooth without needing the included glove. The screen being laminated however causes your pen nibs to degrade faster, but this is hardly an issue with how many they give you to start out or how cheap replacements are. The adjustable stands are nice and responsive, though I'm a little confused as to why there are two of them. Having the extra adjustable stand is great don't get me wrong, but it does make it hard to connect the wires to the actual tablet. Normally, Gaomon tablets plug into the side of the tablet screen, while this one plugs in the side of the box that connects to the stand behind the screen. If you're like me and don't really adjust your stand after you find that perfect sweet spot, then this shouldn't create any issues. My only main issue with this tablet are the buttons. The 5 touch buttons to the right side of the tablet that control the menu and brightness functions are fine since they have a safety lock so you don't accidentally hit the buttons while drawing. The 8 programmable touch buttons on the left however are where my only negative thoughts for this tablet come from. They are quite small and it is VERY easy to accidentally slide your finger onto a button that you didn't intend to use, especially if you have large thumbs. It can also be a little uncomfortable to have these buttons on the top of such a larger screen as well. Personally, the placement of the button's functions are strange too. Having the bottom button default to the eraser is weird when the eraser tool has usually been defaulted to one of the buttons on the pen with other Gaomon products. The buttons have predetermined icons on them that you sadly cannot change as well so button customization is a little hard for this tablet. If Gaomon continues to make tablets, I would be happy if they kept to physical toggle buttons, instead of the touch buttons. The only other tablet I think that has touch buttons is the PD1610, so I hope they continue making ones with the toggle buttons. This might be a personal experience, and might not have anything that has to do with the product or it's performance but I thought it was worth mentioning just in case. A lot of the time these touch buttons don't even work or randomly work when I'm not touching them. I've had my tablet just 'undo' several times without any input from me or my pen. Sometimes the buttons won't function at all when pressing them multiple times in a row. I have tried multiple drawing software. Another issue is my CTRL key keeps getting stuck even when I'm not pressing it or not even having a keyboard plugged in. This only happened when I started drawing with Gaomon products, but I cannot confirm if they were the root cause of this. Just something to keep in mind. I recommend buying a standalone keypad, keydial, or remote of some kind to handle shortcuts if your tablet/computer happens to behave like this. Overall, great experience and great feel. Just the design is a little... 'off'

Disclaimer: I bought this tablet as Used Good for $99. I expected the tablet to have issues, but was really surprised that the thing is practically new. I looked it over hard and there wasn't even tiny scratches, TBF it's like the last owner opened it, took it out of the packages, threw away the manual, put it back in the box and sold it. I do suggest buying a extension cable 12FT, HDMI extension cable 12FT, and USB 2.0+ extension cable 12FT if you're like me, in a bed that can be a chair/recliner/reclined bed with a 60" screen at my feet, a 43" screen left of my head, a high end chromebook and the tablet both to my right with cables running under my bed and hooked up on a extra wide vented stand. The pen lag is too small to notice, the only thing smoother is my high end gaming mouse with a very high polling rate, but I'm able to play OSU on it at the highest levels. I used a no screen Wacom for OSU in the past and quickly rose through the ranks to the top 200. After 20+ hours of OSU on this tablet, my rank went from 200s to 90s. The screen quality is great, but I suggest turning it off when not in use unless it's on a vented stand since it puts out some heat, about 50% to 60% of heat as my high end Chromebook generates. On a vented stand there is no problem leaving it on accidentally which I did, but it was cool when I woke up. Instead of duplicating a screen, I set it as a fourth monitor, and use Autohotkey to automatically move all my GFX software to the tablet meaning I don't have to calibrate it at all, it's 100% accurate. I suggest setting the hotkeys to ALT + F13-F20 (I use F13-24 on a razer keypad with a joystick and ctrl is for my steam controller) and AutoHotkey to make the keys multi-function. To learn AutoHotkey I suggest using Pulovers macro creator which generates code. That will teach you the basics of AutoHotkey coding which makes products infinity better since you're only held back by your imagination and skill level. For example: I have each key set-up to detect up to eight presses within X time + a hold to timeout/cancel and four levels of time delay for a total of 12 functions per key for a total of 96 functions per program with a sleek OSD and a dark GUI to edit functions/add new software and toggle/remember software positions and stuff like removed title bars and borders for more room. It pretty much makes my and Huion pad useless, even the knob since I set the bottom hotkey to function as a knob by locking the mouse in a circle that changes when the pen is tilted at x angle, though it required using C functions inside AHK to set 360 points. As for my Wacom, I set it up as a awesome gesture pad using StrokesPlusNets C# to write macros/functions. There's no need to stop using older hardware when it can be repurposed to do so much with a little code. Also, don't be afraid of C# in StrokesPlusNet, it has plenty of built in functions, most things can be done without knowing any code. Sames goes for AutoHotkey when using pulovers macro creator. The scripts can be saved as programs right from the software. Hope this review helps with your new tablet and ways to repurpose old hardware with or without knowing how to code/script. Last, last, lastly, thanks for buying me the tablet Jim. :) Merry Christmas -A

Bought a good condition used tablet at ~$90, it came in basically new condition. Tablet display is large, which is very helpful for both pen accuracy over your canvas, and working at larger resolutions while seeing accurate size. On Mac the tablet reads as a second monitor, so you can use the main screen of your laptop to display reference images or whatever else you want. There are plenty of keys on the tablet to map to inputs you commonly use, plus the two keys on the pen. The wireless non-charging pen means all you need to do is plug in your tablet power, plug into your laptop, and go. Negatives: It’s sometimes difficult for me to accurtarly calibrate the tablet screen, mostly because the surface of the tablet is raised from the screen display a little, so depending on the angle you view the tablet from, the physical section of the tablet your pen is on does not correspond to the cursor on the display. To use this tablet on Mac, you have to use an adapter for the HDMI cable, so you need an additional purchase if you use Mac. However, the ability to use the tablet as a second monitor is very useful, so I consider it worth it. Lastly, the cables: this is not a portable tablet. You need 3 cables plugged in to use the device; one charging cable into a wall socket and two into your computer or laptop. Excellent if you use a desktop, less convenient if you use a laptop and need to set up/pick up often. Still, it’s only 3 cables and you’re immediately set to go, so this isn’t too bad.

I want to like this tablet, but there are way too many issues to be able to recommend it in good faith. While the price is fair, the ergonomics of it are miserable. Having a newer MacBook with the ports on the left side basically forced me to set it up at the 180’ setting in order to manage the (frankly obtuse) cable situation. Reversing the tablet means I now have to be cautious to not hit the default undo button which is now at the bottom right of my screen, and causing my hand to occasionally graze a random hot key setup. While I will eventually get around to disabling or changing the hot keys, the design of it is fundamentally awkward. Furthermore, the edges of the workspace are a crapshoot. While there are other tablets on the market that also struggle to maintain zeroing close to the edge, I find using the taskbar with the pen to be unpredictable. Sometimes the tablet will just ignore my pen while I’m trying to just access a menu or filter. It’s easy enough to resolve by momentarily switching to a mouse or trackpad, but it really just takes you out of it when it happens, and can add extra stress and irritation to your workflow when you’re working under a deadline. Other users have mentioned this; but no amount of calibration can remove the noticeable dragging, (sometimes over a millimeter away from the pen tip) which makes it impossible to line up clean strokes more than an inch or two long, as the pen will both lag and drift. Something for illustrators to note: the screen is incredibly narrow, making software like clip studio paint and Corel painter miserable to navigate, as it compresses all of the tools down to the point of illegibility. In clip studio paint you have less than 4.5 inches of vertical workspace on your canvas. So while this tablet is easy enough to setup and is one of the lowest prices for a writable screen unit, I can’t recommend it for any professional work. I picked this tablet up with the intention of having a semi-portable tablet for travel, instead of trying to lug around a full sized cintiq. But with the constraints of it’s hardware combined with its tendencies to fall out of calibration makes it feel like I’m spending more time fighting the tablet itself than working.

I wimped out on standard screen-less tablets and went for this one. While I was kinda getting the hang of the whole my-tablet-doesn't-have-a-screen-so-I-must-look-at-the-computer thing, it was just too much for me, especially with my bad coordination. I also have wrist problems, so making the same mistake over and over because I can't see my drawing right below the pen is, uh, not good. This tablet has been amazing. My old Huion tablet always had a problem syncing with my driver for Paint SAI? This one has no problems at all. The screen looks great to me. There's very little lag (there is of course more lag if I overwork the computer, which is probably more of a computer problem than a tablet problem). The pen sensitivity and tilt control have been great; I find them much better than they were on the Huion tablet. It is also soooooo liberating to not have to charge the pen. That feature alone is already a life saver. Every now and again, I forget, and I have this moment of panic followed by relief as I remember charging the pen is a thing of the past that I never have to worry about again. This tablet does require a computer to pair with. It basically functions similar to a tv that has been connected to a laptop; it can only mirror and interact with content that is being powered by a computer/laptop. The HDMI cord is the main part that powers the screen, so without anything to plug the HDMI into, it will not work. My boyfriend was a little upset about this, but even if it requires a computer, it still has better quality and ability for adding details than for example just using an iPad. The seller is also very nice. They reached out to me once the product arrived to ensure there were no damages or other issues, and I believe they also reached out before the product arrived with updates on the shipping process. They warned me against common problems other customers have experienced with the device, and while I did not experience any problems myself, it was still nice to have an understanding of what could possibly happen ahead of time. As I mentioned before, this works great with Paint SAI. I've also used it with regular Microsoft paint and Krita. Honestly, I've even checked my email on this thing without issue. The driver installed without a hitch. The screen was in good condition with no scratches. The pen has a decent quality to it and is not heavy in any way. The hotkeys all function as intended. Overall, it is hard to think of any problems with it since I don't think I've had any. Even the cords come with a cord-keeper, so I've had no problems there, either! If there's any issue I could think of, it's really just that I keep accidentally pushing the buttons on the pen while drawing, and they even have a quick fix for that by just disabling those buttons. In summary, I really like it. The device functions great. This seems to be a pretty nice company, and they do lots of sales. There is of course a large price for this, but it's honestly super affordable compared to other tablets with screens, and even in comparison to some big named tablets that don't have screens. I don't use it nearly as much as I should, but the quality has held up throughout my duration of having it. 10/10, couldn't be more pleased.

I've had this thing for 7 months now. Right off the bat, I found it impossible to correctly calibrate it. The process is to click at the center of crosshairs, around the screen. No matter how precisely I clicked the exact center of the crosshairs, no matter how I held my hand, and no matter how many times I did it, the cursor would never center itself under the pen. It always had an offset, drifting further away from the cursor to the right the further to the right side of the screen I moved the pen. The alignment didn't keep, either. It would frequently go even further out of alignment, and require me to scrub the pen over the left side of the screen for a moment before it returned. I tried to keep going with it, despite this, because I was able to split the difference and get it 'close enough' by purposefully clicking off to the left of the crosshairs on the right side of the screen. I had to repeat this process several times, as the up-and-down calibration would go off and on while calibrating it. As I mentioned, I got it 'close enough' and started using it. Right off the bat, I noticed that the pen pressure would periodically stop working correctly; delivering only a single instantaneous click when I pressed down with the pen. This would happen every 5-10 minutes while using the tablet, and each time required me to wait for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before it would begin working again. Note that this happened in multiple programs: Photoshop, GIMP, Blender and some others. I was still too enraptured by having an actual screen under my pen to get rid of it for seven months, however. Until just two days ago, I was willing to live with these issues. What changed was that two days ago, the cursor began wildly bouncing back and forth across the screen, left and right, whenever I brought the pen close. This happened after I had been using it for 10 minutes. I troubleshot the problem, updating drivers and restarting my computer, and it seemed to be fixed. For 10 minutes. This continued to happen as I tried multiple troubleshooting steps. I rolled back my drivers to multiple earlier versions. I uninstalled windows updates. I wiped and reinstalled the drivers and software. Nothing worked. In it's current state, it is useful for less than 10 minutes of work before it becomes completely worthless as a graphics tablet, until I restart my computer. The plugs are on the 'right' side of the screen, and stick out quite a bit. The cables are thick, and require sufficient space for curving. The cables are also on the shorter side, leaving me -a left-handed artist- with almost no room in which to use the tablet. The screen quality is poor, and at any viewing distance greater than about 18 inches, normal 10pt font text is completely unreadable. The color calibration is poor, and requires navigating a clunky menu to adjust. The surface of the screen collects scratches and scuffs from the included pen nib, and requires constant wet wiping to see clearly through. All in all, it's a purchase I greatly regret. What I'm left with, after spending $170 to buy it on sale is the worst 11" 1080p monitor I've ever owned, far worse than a $50 used 15" flatscreen which one could buy almost anywhere.