Product Data Sheet / Brochure

Wacom Active ES

30 years of expertise

Perfected and improved for over 30 years, loved by artist and professionals everywhere, Wacom’ s

unique digital pen technology enables precise and natural input that lets you focus on what really

matters: your creations.

From the pen-tip material, carefully selected to match each writing surface, to the

state-of-the-art signal noise management and pressure sensing techniques,

everything is painstakingly optimized in order to achieve the Wacom feeling.

By quickly adapting to new technological challenges, Wacom has

proven to deliver a natural pen experience

Introduction of

Wacom’ s Active ES solutions

The AES technology makes use of different assets that are also part of Wacom’ s

de-facto standard EMR. Those are the detection of the pen pressure and the data exchange between

pen and pad. This results in a fast and accurate control and a natural writing experience, combined with

an accurate traceability of the pen. In the same way as with EMR, AES technology also allows the

hovering of the pen over the pad.

Our hardware offering:

Excellent performance incorporating accumulated expertise on multi-touch and pen input technologies

Pen : 9.5mm battery (AAAA) type

5.3mm super capacitor cartridge type

Controller IC : handling pen/touch input signals simultaneously

pen tips available to create different writing experiences

Our quality assurance:

High levels of perfection supported by long-standing expertise on digital pen development and

manufacturing

Optimization of exterior design, material choice and writing feel etc.

Mass manufacturing capability of high quality products using automated pen production facilities

and Wacom’ s own Quality Assurance techniques.

High level of accuracy. Pressure sensitivity, low latency and high pen report rate create a natural,

smooth writing feeling. The pressure sensitivity creates a richer experience and opens up a wide

range of use case scenarios, e.g. for signature capturing.

Very small tilt error, making writing even more exact.

Application and Cloud: Pen ID

Each pen is capable of having a unique ID, suitable for file sharing/editing via the cloud. Security

enhancement is also possible. Cross platform inking experience: Wacom’ s AES pen is ready for cloud

based services; connected with Wacom’ s Ink Layer Language (WILL), it allows manufacturers to create

a seamless inking experience for their customers across platforms and devices.

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Our hardware offering: Wacom Active ES Excellent performance incorporating accumulated expertise on multi-touch and pen input technologies Pen : 9.5mm battery (AAAA) type 5.
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Working principle User benefits Write on Paper Feeling – Natural writing experience Wacom’ s Active ES solution is an electrostatic capacitive coupling pen technology. This solution uses capacity coupling between an electrostatic coupling type sensor and pen. It uses the same sensor as the touch sensor. To create the most natural writing feeling that comes as close as writing on standard paper, Wacom uses a feature set that contributes to this feeling: 1.