Embargo:September 14, 2005

New Wacom® Graphire®4 Pen Tablets Make It Fun
And Easy To Edit Digital Photos, Draw, Paint And Jot Notes

Wacom’s new Graphire4 pen tablets provide the tools needed to have fun editing photos and exploring digital creativity.These new pen tablets include a patented, cordless, battery-free pen and mouse, a tablet and valuable software applications. Using the natural control of the pen and the included software it’s easy to enhance photos and to create artwork for scrapbooks, craft projects and slide shows. It’s also easy to communicate more personally by using the pen to digitally jot notes, annotate documents and sketch quick diagrams. Graphire4 pen tablets are available immediately in a choice of 4 kinds (Silver4x5, Blue4x5, Silver6x8 Digital Photography Toolkit, and White6x8 Digital Photography Toolkit). This time, for the sake of home photographers and CG enthusiasts, Wacom offers “Graphire4 6x8 Digital Photography Toolkit” in two tablet colors. This is a special package that includes a series of valuable applications for digital photography. Graphire is designed for people embracing a digital lifestyle. In the same way our Intuos products meet the needs of serious photographers, designers and artists, the new affordable Graphire4 provides the creative controls and applications for countless hours of personal fun.

Cordless, Battery-Free Graphire4 Pen

The comfortable Graphire4 pen offers 512 levels of pressure sensitivity for control, two programmable side-buttons for convenience and a pressure-sensitive eraser for easy fixes. Pressure sensitivity makes it possible to control the amount of a software tool's effect simply by varying how firmly the pen tip is pressed to the tablet. Using a Graphire4 pen is easy because every point on the tablet has a matching point on the screen. When the pen is moved over the tablet the cursor moves in precisely the same way on the screen.

Graphire4 Tablet

The Graphire4 tablet uses a USB connection for quick installation on both PCs and Macs. The new transparent photo frame makes the tablet easy to personalize with photos and artwork. The photo frame also contains a clever pen compartment that, along with the pen stand, provides two convenient ways to keep the pen handyand secure.The Graphire4 now features a scroll wheel right on the tablet and two programmable ExpressKeys™ for navigation, mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts.

“Optional” Cordless, Battery-FreeGraphire4 Mouse

The Graphire4 mouse is ball-free so tracking is always smooth and highly accurate with up to four times the resolution of an optical mouse. It features a rubberized grip for comfort and the scrolling fingerwheel also serves as a third programmable button for convenience.Alternately using the pen and mouse reduces repetitive motion

Software For Enhancing Photos With Pen Control

The control of the Graphire4 pen and the included copies of applications make it possible to quickly and easily edit and organize digital photos. “Wacom’s pen tablets offer the right tools for editing photos and deliver a totally natural feel to digital art,” says Ms. Lynette Kent, renowned art instructor and digital scrapbooking author.“The controls and applications included with the new Graphire4 are all about making the personal creative experience fun, free flowing and easy.”

Drawing And Painting Software

The natural feel of the Graphire pen and the amazing capabilities of Corel® Painter™ Essentials 2 make creating great looking artwork fun. When used with a Wacom pen, Painter Essentials 2 can look and feel like just about any natural art tool and is perfect for creating original artwork from photos.

Additionally, Graphire4 customers using Adobe’s free downloadable Acrobat® 7 Reader can mark up Acrobat documents with digital ink, if the “Enable for commenting in Acrobat Reader” feature was turned on when the document was created.

About Wacom

Founded in 1983, Wacom® is the world’s leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays with customers worldwide using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology for digital content creation.Wacom’s patented electromagnetic resonance technology, called Penabled®, is also offered as an OEM solution to manufacturers of PC and Macintosh computers.Many of today’s tablet PCs count on the advanced features and reliability of Penabled technology for pen input.In the future, Penabled technology will play a leading role in the development of such mobile devices as smart phones and PDAs.

Wacom is a global company with its parent company, Wacom Company Ltd, based in Japan and subsidiaries in North America (Wacom Technology Corporation), Germany (Wacom Europe GmbH), United Kingdom (Wacom Components Europe), China (Wacom China Corporation), Korea (Wacom Digital Solutions), Australia (Wacom Australia Pty, Ltd), and other local offices across Asia Pacific.

Wacom Intuos and Graphire are trademarks of Wacom Company Ltd.All rights reserved.ExpressKey is a registered trademark of Ginsan Industries, Inc. and is used with permission.EverNote Plus is a trademark of EverNote Corporation.JustWrite Office and all other trademarks and trade names are property of their respective owners.All prices listed are Wacom estimated U.S. street prices.