Wacom Cintiq Pro 22 Drawing Tablet with Screen, 21.5" Ultra HD 4K Touchscreen Display Graphic Arts Tablet with Pro Pen 3, Professional Creative Tablet w/Display for Windows PC, Mac, Linux

I have had this monitor for 3 months now. Before I got this, I had tried Huion and Xencelabs displays. Build Quality The build quality is excellent. The materials and fit and finish on my unit are top notch. The glass feels great underhand. Screen Out of the box color reproduction is within a few percent of what was advertised based on my test with an xrite color calibration sensor. There is a very slight backlight bleed on the right edge of the screen but this is only noticeable against a black background and will be covered up by the UI of any drawing program. The screen is very crisp despite the good anti-glare coating on it. Compared to other 4k drawing tablets with antiglare coatings, this one blows them out of the water in terms of clarity (looking at you, xencelabs 24). There is no point in buying a 4k monitor if the anti glare coating is blurry, and with this monitor you truly do get the benefits of 4k. The touch functions fine but I don't like using touch because I will occasionally accidentally trigger it. This is a problem for me regardless of device, even on iPads, so I wouldn't knock this unit for being overly sensitive. It's nice to have a physical switch to quickly disable touch on the back of the unit so I can use touch on occasion if I want to. The 120 hz is very nice but it is the sort of luxury you take for granted until you have to use a 60 hz screen again. The screen is plenty bright for me at default settings, but there are a multitude of different settings you can adjust for colorspaces, etc. I just leave it on default settings sRGB. Drawing Experience The pen is excellent. It is extremely accurate and all pressure levels are usable. I do not see any line wobble in an unstabilized pen on this display. Other Notes I don't use the trigger buttons but they are there if you want them and the buttons feel quality to press. I currently have the unit on the official Wacom stand for it and I think it is also excellent, very solid and easy to adjust. My particular unit has zero fan noise. The pen holder that comes with the unit sucks. Sorry Wacom, but this pen holder is practically designed to drop your pen at the slightest bump regardless of where you screw it in to the tablet. Just something to be aware of, you might want to store the pen somewhere else. The only true downside is this tablet is $3k and the stand is $500. This is certainly overpriced, but I believe the product is best in class for a 22" tablet. Time will tell what the lifetime of the product is but I expect it will last a long time, especially since the display does not use OLED technology.

Best investment for an artist/illustrator!

The interface software is terrible. Clunky, buggy. and non-intuitive.

CONTEXT I have used Cintiq on Mac for over 15 years as a professional. I have been a Mac user since 2008 and also Windows since... DOS 1984? I am now using a Lenovo Legion 7i 16IRX8H -- i9-13900HX & RTX4080 (more than enough). I wanted a smaller, more space-efficient pen display. I wanted nice working gestures (terrible on Mac). This is my first time using a Cintiq on Windows. REVIEW I spent a great deal of time trying to debug these issues. Some resolved with hacky work-arounds, others nothing. (Spoiler) I was so frustrated I also bought a Huion Kamvas Pro 19 (and I'm keeping it). You already know the goods, so to keep things short, I focus on the bads: - Usually photoshop works, but in a span of 1 week, it did not work 3 times. The solution was no less than uninstall and reinstall the Cintiq Drivers. No Joke. - Photoshop 2023, 2024, 2025 had a bug where my lines would start to get janky after a few minutes of perfectly silky smooth lines, suddenly ugly lines. The problem went away when I backpedaled all the way to Photoshop 2022. (Did not occur on Huion Kamvas Pro 19) - Toon Boom Harmony, always 100% of the time, the pen marks would be about an inch below the pen tip. Even though I could click the UI just fine. (Did not occur on Huion Kamvas Pro 19) - After waking up from sleep, the Cintiq decided the pen should work on one monitor, but the touch should go to another. There was no fix for this, the Cintiq Software does not let you say which screen should be in focus, instead just has the display toggle. Restarting the driver did not work. Restarting the PC did not work. Uninstall & Reinstall the driver worked *sigh*. This happened once in a span of a week, this was actually the last straw for me and why I'm writing this review. The trend with the Cintiq on Windows seems than you must uninstall and reinstall, then restart your computer for any issue that goes wrong. You must re-apply all your custom settings. Some variation of these sorts of problems happened sometimes more than once a day. Compared to the Huion Kamvas Pro 19. Well it has its quirks too. But ever quirk on the Huion was solvable with the click of a button, no uninstall and reinstall and no restarting the PC. Also, Toon Boom Harmony worked great. Photoshop 2025 worked great (though you do have to click a button in the Huion software). However, the shocker to me was that the pen feel on the Huion is actually nicer. Pen Pressure is nicer. The pen engagement feels like an iPad, it's really good! Parallax is better on Huion, but the Cintiq is good too. Apparently color is better on the Cintiq but I can't tell the difference, I always just use sRGB. Huion Kamvas Pro 19 is only 60hz, the Cintiq Pro 17 is 120hz. I did like the 120hz but not a requirement. All things considered, even with ignoring the price, the Huion (while it has issues) is the better product. Cintiq is going back... Huion is staying... Weird.

It has some weird touch problem that often would limit my touch to a small area of monitor, which would reset after another action (drawing with pen/clicking with mouse). This is a "small" problem I could get used to, but the pen side button broken off so easily. Turned out they are only held by a tiny bit of plastic on the button plate.