I’ve become quite the fan of Veikk tablets. Last year I purchased the A15 for the office and was impressed with the quality/functionality for the price – I now wanted a new tablet for the home office, so once again, after searching online and looking at all the tablets now on offer by various brands such as XP-Pen, Huion etc (not forgetting Wacom – they are just more expensive!), I decided to once more give Veikk a spin – this time it’s the A30…
The box contains the usual suspects: Tablet (obviously!), Pen, USB-C cable, spare nibs (& extractor tool), instruction manual and a ‘Thank you for purchasing this tablet’ card which, on reverse, gives you a link where to download the drivers (no more CD’s!).
It’s not clear exactly what the guarantee is on this, but there are contact details listed for the Veikk website – plus, if you’re not happy and/ or the product is faulty, I guess you can simply return to Amazon etc…
After unplugging my older, smaller tablet and un-installing the drivers, I plugged in the A30, went to Veikks website and downloaded/installed their drivers (interestingly, their drivers are a ‘one size fits all’ type – all their tablets run off the same drivers and are automatically detected).
The tablet itself has a nice large 10”x6” drawing area – it really does seem huge compared to my old skool Wacom Bamboo 6”x4” I was still using! It’s quite thin (9mm), but feels very sturdy and well built – it’s very light and can be easily chucked into a laptop bag etc…
It’s nice to see USB-C being used – its ‘looks’ a lot neater and takes up less room on my already cramped workspace (plus you don’t have to go through that ritual of ALWAYS plugging in a USB the wrong way around first…!) 😊
OK – test time…
On the left side of tablet is a glossy vertical ‘strip’ which is where the touch-pad sits and four programmable ‘touch key’s (or ‘buttons’). I found using the touch pad was great in Photoshop etc – swiping up/down zoomed in/out of the canvas accordingly – similarly, swiping left/right increased/decreased the brush size too – a great timesaver when drawing/designing against an impending deadline – it all helps!
One thing I noticed was that if used in a nice bright environment, the touch keys were easier to see – if you sit in a darker room/office, you can’t actually see them as well as they are flush with the tablet surface i.e. they aren’t raised or recessed… they do actually light up blue when accessed – it’s a shame you haven’t the option in the software to keep them on permanently (like a backlit keyboard), but it’s not really a deal breaker – you’ll get used to it as you use the tablet more…
The pen is nice and light and doesn’t require charging! Still not sure what type of magic is used for this(!), but it feels nice to use and has the usual two buttons – one for ‘right-click’ mouse functionality the other for using the pen as an ‘eraser’ (or ‘rubber’ as we say in the UK! 😊) – as with the touch keys, you can re-assign them in the software to suit the way you work…
It has 8192 levels of ‘pressure sensitivity’ – not sure how many levels I used to create the illustration accompanying this review, but I was able to produce a nice tapered stroke…
Overall, for just £46, this tablet does everything I wanted at a great price… drawing feels smooth and the touch pad works really well - it’s also a nice looking tablet to have on my desk!
Veikk are a fairly new player in the graphics tablet market AFAIK, but based on my experience with what they have produced so far, they really are great value for money – more competition is always good for us designers and/or the end-user – I look forward to using more of their tablets in the future!
Artwork was created in Photoshop CC 2019 on a Windows 10 PC using the Veikk A30 tablet.
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- Founded in 2009, Veikk has been dedicated to the research, design, R&D, production, and marketing of digital pen tablets and we have obtained more than 60 product patents.
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Battery-free pen 8192 Levels
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Unique Touch Control Experience
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10 x 6 inch Drawing Area
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| Drawing Area | 6 × 4 inch | 6 × 4 inch | 10 × 6 inch | 11.6 inch |
| Hotkeys | × | 6 hotkeys | 8 hotkeys 1 touch panel | 6 hotkeys |
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Affordable and well featured graphics tablet
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2020
As a graphic artist with 30 years under my belt I've used many pen tablets in the past. I've been lucky enough to work on some high end Wacoms and lower end Chinese offerings. But the line between high end and low end is becoming very blurred as the Chinese tablets keep improving year-on-year. The A30 from Veikk (pronounced VEEK I think) is a sleek slim and thoroughly capable pen tablet with an 11.5" Diagonal active area (10” x 6”).The battery free pen is an elegant tube with the top end cut off at an angle and two programmable buttons. You get eight spare nibs (plus one in the pen) and a nib removal tool. There's even a nice cloth pen holder but I like to keep mine handy in my ALIEN Egg holder. The tablet also has four programmable buttons too but these are touch sensitive + symbols on a shiny flat surface off to one side. Also in this are is a 1.5" x 2" mini track pad that can also be assigned to different functions. I found brush size increase or zoom where the most effective with this neat little addition.The tablet connects to the PC or Mac via a USB to USB C cable. The Cable has a right angle connector for the tablet end which helps keep the cable out of the way. A great feature is how this tablet can be rotated for left or right hand use. Just turn it round and click the button in the driver window for whatever hand you prefer and it will automatically switch the horizontal and vertical axis. You have options in the driver for programing the quick keys on the pen and tablet and adjusting pressure sensitivity. It's a basic driver but that's all you really need. The pressure sensitivity of 8192 levels is very good and easily recognized my lightest touch, producing some good straight fine lines with no judder. Applying pressure gradually shows how this tablet can easily compete with a high end Wacom and produced the same line quality as this much pricier tablet.I tested the A30 in various pieces of software from Photoshop, ArtRage, Sketchbook Pro, Mischief and Zbrush and all performed extremely well. All the software recognized the tablet immediately and I was able to draw instantaneously with no adjustments to the program settings. All the quick keys were binded to some kind of tool or event but could easily be reprogrammed in the driver. In all programs the lines were smooth with no judder or lag and screen mapping was perfect. The ruler test produced some very nice clean and straight lines and inking artwork was a joy, creating some very convincing and natural taper. Like any Pen Tablet it takes some getting used to the disconnection from screen to tablet and drawing on a Tablet Display is much more intuitive. But we can't all afford these top end units and a Pen Tablet is the next best thing and with practice it becomes second nature. I have limited desk space and one great thing about the A30 is I could unplug it when finished and stack it next to my monitor. If I wanted to use it later I could just plug back in again and it worked, no restarting the PC or messing with drivers.To sum up this is a fabulous Pen Tablet at a great price. Yeah you could step up to Veikk's pro version but to me this is a refined classy and minimalistic Pen Tablet that works just as well as my Wacom Intuos Pro S but at a fifth of the price. Okay the A30 is missing tilt sensitivity but I never use it on my Pro S anyway. The A30 really shows how good an alternative Pen Tablet can be and how it's helping budding artist everywhere get into digital art easily and cost effectively. I can't fault this tablet in any way and love everything from the build quality and design to the packaging and presentation. A wireless version would be nice, either as a separate model or via an add on and a drawing glove in the package would also be a nice touch but not a deal breaker. I'd love to see how Veikk's technology works in their Pen Displays and how they compare to an equivalent Wacom. If the A30 is anything to go by they could be very good. Well done Veikk.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2020
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2020
The box contains the usual suspects: Tablet (obviously!), Pen, USB-C cable, spare nibs (& extractor tool), instruction manual and a ‘Thank you for purchasing this tablet’ card which, on reverse, gives you a link where to download the drivers (no more CD’s!).
It’s not clear exactly what the guarantee is on this, but there are contact details listed for the Veikk website – plus, if you’re not happy and/ or the product is faulty, I guess you can simply return to Amazon etc…
After unplugging my older, smaller tablet and un-installing the drivers, I plugged in the A30, went to Veikks website and downloaded/installed their drivers (interestingly, their drivers are a ‘one size fits all’ type – all their tablets run off the same drivers and are automatically detected).
The tablet itself has a nice large 10”x6” drawing area – it really does seem huge compared to my old skool Wacom Bamboo 6”x4” I was still using! It’s quite thin (9mm), but feels very sturdy and well built – it’s very light and can be easily chucked into a laptop bag etc…
It’s nice to see USB-C being used – its ‘looks’ a lot neater and takes up less room on my already cramped workspace (plus you don’t have to go through that ritual of ALWAYS plugging in a USB the wrong way around first…!) 😊
OK – test time…
On the left side of tablet is a glossy vertical ‘strip’ which is where the touch-pad sits and four programmable ‘touch key’s (or ‘buttons’). I found using the touch pad was great in Photoshop etc – swiping up/down zoomed in/out of the canvas accordingly – similarly, swiping left/right increased/decreased the brush size too – a great timesaver when drawing/designing against an impending deadline – it all helps!
One thing I noticed was that if used in a nice bright environment, the touch keys were easier to see – if you sit in a darker room/office, you can’t actually see them as well as they are flush with the tablet surface i.e. they aren’t raised or recessed… they do actually light up blue when accessed – it’s a shame you haven’t the option in the software to keep them on permanently (like a backlit keyboard), but it’s not really a deal breaker – you’ll get used to it as you use the tablet more…
The pen is nice and light and doesn’t require charging! Still not sure what type of magic is used for this(!), but it feels nice to use and has the usual two buttons – one for ‘right-click’ mouse functionality the other for using the pen as an ‘eraser’ (or ‘rubber’ as we say in the UK! 😊) – as with the touch keys, you can re-assign them in the software to suit the way you work…
It has 8192 levels of ‘pressure sensitivity’ – not sure how many levels I used to create the illustration accompanying this review, but I was able to produce a nice tapered stroke…
Overall, for just £46, this tablet does everything I wanted at a great price… drawing feels smooth and the touch pad works really well - it’s also a nice looking tablet to have on my desk!
Veikk are a fairly new player in the graphics tablet market AFAIK, but based on my experience with what they have produced so far, they really are great value for money – more competition is always good for us designers and/or the end-user – I look forward to using more of their tablets in the future!
Artwork was created in Photoshop CC 2019 on a Windows 10 PC using the Veikk A30 tablet.
Size Name: LargeVerified Purchase
Another great Veikk Tablet - the A30...
By Steve B on 19 February 2020
I’ve become quite the fan of Veikk tablets. Last year I purchased the A15 for the office and was impressed with the quality/functionality for the price – I now wanted a new tablet for the home office, so once again, after searching online and looking at all the tablets now on offer by various brands such as XP-Pen, Huion etc (not forgetting Wacom – they are just more expensive!), I decided to once more give Veikk a spin – this time it’s the A30…By Steve B on 19 February 2020
The box contains the usual suspects: Tablet (obviously!), Pen, USB-C cable, spare nibs (& extractor tool), instruction manual and a ‘Thank you for purchasing this tablet’ card which, on reverse, gives you a link where to download the drivers (no more CD’s!).
It’s not clear exactly what the guarantee is on this, but there are contact details listed for the Veikk website – plus, if you’re not happy and/ or the product is faulty, I guess you can simply return to Amazon etc…
After unplugging my older, smaller tablet and un-installing the drivers, I plugged in the A30, went to Veikks website and downloaded/installed their drivers (interestingly, their drivers are a ‘one size fits all’ type – all their tablets run off the same drivers and are automatically detected).
The tablet itself has a nice large 10”x6” drawing area – it really does seem huge compared to my old skool Wacom Bamboo 6”x4” I was still using! It’s quite thin (9mm), but feels very sturdy and well built – it’s very light and can be easily chucked into a laptop bag etc…
It’s nice to see USB-C being used – its ‘looks’ a lot neater and takes up less room on my already cramped workspace (plus you don’t have to go through that ritual of ALWAYS plugging in a USB the wrong way around first…!) 😊
OK – test time…
On the left side of tablet is a glossy vertical ‘strip’ which is where the touch-pad sits and four programmable ‘touch key’s (or ‘buttons’). I found using the touch pad was great in Photoshop etc – swiping up/down zoomed in/out of the canvas accordingly – similarly, swiping left/right increased/decreased the brush size too – a great timesaver when drawing/designing against an impending deadline – it all helps!
One thing I noticed was that if used in a nice bright environment, the touch keys were easier to see – if you sit in a darker room/office, you can’t actually see them as well as they are flush with the tablet surface i.e. they aren’t raised or recessed… they do actually light up blue when accessed – it’s a shame you haven’t the option in the software to keep them on permanently (like a backlit keyboard), but it’s not really a deal breaker – you’ll get used to it as you use the tablet more…
The pen is nice and light and doesn’t require charging! Still not sure what type of magic is used for this(!), but it feels nice to use and has the usual two buttons – one for ‘right-click’ mouse functionality the other for using the pen as an ‘eraser’ (or ‘rubber’ as we say in the UK! 😊) – as with the touch keys, you can re-assign them in the software to suit the way you work…
It has 8192 levels of ‘pressure sensitivity’ – not sure how many levels I used to create the illustration accompanying this review, but I was able to produce a nice tapered stroke…
Overall, for just £46, this tablet does everything I wanted at a great price… drawing feels smooth and the touch pad works really well - it’s also a nice looking tablet to have on my desk!
Veikk are a fairly new player in the graphics tablet market AFAIK, but based on my experience with what they have produced so far, they really are great value for money – more competition is always good for us designers and/or the end-user – I look forward to using more of their tablets in the future!
Artwork was created in Photoshop CC 2019 on a Windows 10 PC using the Veikk A30 tablet.
Images in this review
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2020
The tablet connects to the PC or Mac via a USB to USB C cable. The Cable has a right angle connector for the tablet end which helps keep the cable out of the way. A great feature is how this tablet can be rotated for left or right hand use. Just turn it round and click the button in the driver window for whatever hand you prefer and it will automatically switch the horizontal and vertical axis. You have options in the driver for programing the quick keys on the pen and tablet and adjusting pressure sensitivity. It's a basic driver but that's all you really need. The pressure sensitivity of 8192 levels is very good and easily recognized my lightest touch, producing some good straight fine lines with no judder. Applying pressure gradually shows how this tablet can easily compete with a high end Wacom and produced the same line quality as this much pricier tablet.
I tested the A30 in various pieces of software from Photoshop, ArtRage, Sketchbook Pro, Mischief and Zbrush and all performed extremely well. All the software recognized the tablet immediately and I was able to draw instantaneously with no adjustments to the program settings. All the quick keys were binded to some kind of tool or event but could easily be reprogrammed in the driver. In all programs the lines were smooth with no judder or lag and screen mapping was perfect. The ruler test produced some very nice clean and straight lines and inking artwork was a joy, creating some very convincing and natural taper. Like any Pen Tablet it takes some getting used to the disconnection from screen to tablet and drawing on a Tablet Display is much more intuitive. But we can't all afford these top end units and a Pen Tablet is the next best thing and with practice it becomes second nature. I have limited desk space and one great thing about the A30 is I could unplug it when finished and stack it next to my monitor. If I wanted to use it later I could just plug back in again and it worked, no restarting the PC or messing with drivers.
To sum up this is a fabulous Pen Tablet at a great price. Yeah you could step up to Veikk's pro version but to me this is a refined classy and minimalistic Pen Tablet that works just as well as my Wacom Intuos Pro S but at a fifth of the price. Okay the A30 is missing tilt sensitivity but I never use it on my Pro S anyway. The A30 really shows how good an alternative Pen Tablet can be and how it's helping budding artist everywhere get into digital art easily and cost effectively. I can't fault this tablet in any way and love everything from the build quality and design to the packaging and presentation. A wireless version would be nice, either as a separate model or via an add on and a drawing glove in the package would also be a nice touch but not a deal breaker. I'd love to see how Veikk's technology works in their Pen Displays and how they compare to an equivalent Wacom. If the A30 is anything to go by they could be very good. Well done Veikk.
Size Name: LargeVerified Purchase
Affordable and well featured graphics tablet
By Oliver Scott on 3 February 2020
As a graphic artist with 30 years under my belt I've used many pen tablets in the past. I've been lucky enough to work on some high end Wacoms and lower end Chinese offerings. But the line between high end and low end is becoming very blurred as the Chinese tablets keep improving year-on-year. The A30 from Veikk (pronounced VEEK I think) is a sleek slim and thoroughly capable pen tablet with an 11.5" Diagonal active area (10” x 6”).The battery free pen is an elegant tube with the top end cut off at an angle and two programmable buttons. You get eight spare nibs (plus one in the pen) and a nib removal tool. There's even a nice cloth pen holder but I like to keep mine handy in my ALIEN Egg holder. The tablet also has four programmable buttons too but these are touch sensitive + symbols on a shiny flat surface off to one side. Also in this are is a 1.5" x 2" mini track pad that can also be assigned to different functions. I found brush size increase or zoom where the most effective with this neat little addition.By Oliver Scott on 3 February 2020
The tablet connects to the PC or Mac via a USB to USB C cable. The Cable has a right angle connector for the tablet end which helps keep the cable out of the way. A great feature is how this tablet can be rotated for left or right hand use. Just turn it round and click the button in the driver window for whatever hand you prefer and it will automatically switch the horizontal and vertical axis. You have options in the driver for programing the quick keys on the pen and tablet and adjusting pressure sensitivity. It's a basic driver but that's all you really need. The pressure sensitivity of 8192 levels is very good and easily recognized my lightest touch, producing some good straight fine lines with no judder. Applying pressure gradually shows how this tablet can easily compete with a high end Wacom and produced the same line quality as this much pricier tablet.
I tested the A30 in various pieces of software from Photoshop, ArtRage, Sketchbook Pro, Mischief and Zbrush and all performed extremely well. All the software recognized the tablet immediately and I was able to draw instantaneously with no adjustments to the program settings. All the quick keys were binded to some kind of tool or event but could easily be reprogrammed in the driver. In all programs the lines were smooth with no judder or lag and screen mapping was perfect. The ruler test produced some very nice clean and straight lines and inking artwork was a joy, creating some very convincing and natural taper. Like any Pen Tablet it takes some getting used to the disconnection from screen to tablet and drawing on a Tablet Display is much more intuitive. But we can't all afford these top end units and a Pen Tablet is the next best thing and with practice it becomes second nature. I have limited desk space and one great thing about the A30 is I could unplug it when finished and stack it next to my monitor. If I wanted to use it later I could just plug back in again and it worked, no restarting the PC or messing with drivers.
To sum up this is a fabulous Pen Tablet at a great price. Yeah you could step up to Veikk's pro version but to me this is a refined classy and minimalistic Pen Tablet that works just as well as my Wacom Intuos Pro S but at a fifth of the price. Okay the A30 is missing tilt sensitivity but I never use it on my Pro S anyway. The A30 really shows how good an alternative Pen Tablet can be and how it's helping budding artist everywhere get into digital art easily and cost effectively. I can't fault this tablet in any way and love everything from the build quality and design to the packaging and presentation. A wireless version would be nice, either as a separate model or via an add on and a drawing glove in the package would also be a nice touch but not a deal breaker. I'd love to see how Veikk's technology works in their Pen Displays and how they compare to an equivalent Wacom. If the A30 is anything to go by they could be very good. Well done Veikk.
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