Huion Kamvas Professional 19 graphics show evaluation – When larger isn’t higher for you

REVIEW – Final June (2024), I reviewed the wonderful Huion Kamvas Professional 27 graphics show. It’s huge, has a good looking 4K display, and it’s costly at $2,000. Nonetheless, if that worth is a price range buster, there are two good selections out there from Huion—the Huion Kamvas Professional 24 (4K) or  the brand new Kamvas Professional 19—this evaluation. 

Due to many similarities, a few of my writing shall be repetitive of the Kamvas Professional 27 evaluation. Consider the Kamvas Professional 19 as a lowered (in dimension) Professional 27. It’s virtually a smaller twin to the Professional 27 lacking a few options of the Professional 27. However the Professional 19 has a intelligent characteristic even my trusty older Kamvas Professional 24 doesn’t have.

What’s it?

The Huion Kamvas Professional 19 is a smaller sibling to the massive Professional 27. It’s a desktop monitor that may be drawn on utilizing a stylus (pen). Like most different drawing shows, the Professional 19 is not a stand-alone pill (like an iPad). It have to be hard-wired to a PC—Mac, Home windows, Linux, or Android (with restrictions)—to work.

The Professional 19 comes with an AUX port, two USB-C “blind-mate” ports (for simpler connecting whereas not trying), plus built-in legs offering a 20° angle for drawing. A normal 100×100 VESA mount is included on the again for mounting on a stand or arm for further versatility. Each USB-C ports are required for energy and video connection (a Mac in my case). All obligatory cabling is included.

The Professional 27’s 4K extremely HD display delivers sharp particulars with a large gamut of over a billion colours for correct coloration work artists demand. Coloration gamut protection helps 99% sRGB, 96% Adobe RGB, and DCI-P3 coloration areas. Every Professional 19 is coloration calibrated earlier than leaving the manufacturing facility and a printed calibration sheet for that particular show is included within the field.

The brand new Canvas Glass nano-etched display of the Professional 19 options anti-glare, anti-sparkle, full lamination, and paper-like texture properties.

As with the Professional 27, Huion supplies two pens with the Professional 19. One is a “commonplace” ergonomic grip pen and the opposite is a slimmer pen for individuals who desire that fashion. The usual pen has three programmable buttons and the slim pen comes with two. Each pens have “erasers” on the other finish—in apps that enable it. A pen holder that holds each pens homes further drawing nibs and doubles as a stand for the pens. Every pen helps over 16K ranges of sensitivity. The pens characteristic Huion’s PenTech 4.0 tech that includes further strain sensitivity and retraction distance enchancment to cut back “wobbling” whereas drawing, 

The Professional 19 incorporates Multitouch. It permits utilizing the hand to pinch-zoom, swipe, and rotate (suppose smartphone navigation. It now works with Apple’s MacOS.

For lovers of shortcut keys, Huion contains within the field their Keydial Mini, a slim and moveable mini keyboard with a rotating dial that may be programmed for numerous key shortcuts.

What’s included?

• Kamvas Professional 19
• Keydial Mini  
• PW600 pen
• PW600S pen
• 5 commonplace nibs
• 5 felt tip nibs
• Pen field
• USB-C to USB-C energy cable
• USB-C to USB-C cable
• 3-in 2 cable
• Energy adapter with connector
• Palm rejection glove
• Cleansing fabric
• Fast begin information
• Coloration calibration report

Tech specs

Design and options

After I opened the field of the Kamvas Professional 19, I seen how my Kamvas Professional 24 (4K) solely felt barely smaller than the way more costly Kamvas Professional 27 I had reviewed (and returned). However the Kamvas 19 feels a lot smaller than the Kamvas Professional 24 (4K) sitting subsequent to it.

Unboxing the Professional 19 is sort of much like the Professional 27—solely smaller. The show remains to be offered in an eco-friendly recyclable field. The show is as padded in foam because the Professional 27, despite the fact that the Professional 19 weighs 4 occasions lower than the Professional 27. Thick foam securely holds the show in place in addition to all included equipment. Within the field is a useful quick-start information printed on an outsized card. You possibly can’t miss it! The directions are straightforward to observe. 

Connecting the monitor was straightforward. Since there are solely two USB-C ports, I solely wanted to attach each provided USB-C cables—one to the ability plug (no energy brick wanted) and the opposite to my Mac Studio. Accomplished! There are not any cables awkwardly protruding from the highest of the show, as with the Professional 27. The 2 USB-C ports (and AUX) are the one ports on the Professional 19.

For the reason that Professional 19 is a smaller show, I positioned it along with the Kamvas Professional 24 (my foremost monitor). The Professional 19 comes with two built-in 20° folding legs—which I don’t use. I used the VESA mount and connected it to an ST100 Huion VESA stand left over from a earlier Huion pill. It’s a greater answer for my use. Huion makes the ST500 Desktop Arm ($140) which might be a superb answer for a stand, but it surely’s in use on the Kamvas Professional 24 (4K). In the event you’re getting confused by all of the Huion show names, so am I. 😉 

The fascinating characteristic talked about earlier is Finger Contact. Sure, each the Professional 27 and Professional 19 have all the time had Finger Contact—for Home windows solely. Now Huion has launched a “beta” replace to its driver that permits Finger Contact for MacOS. I acquired it to work, however as with beta software program, it’s nonetheless glitchy for me. Generally it really works, generally not. I’m not anxious as a result of Huion is engaged on this, and it’s solely a matter of time earlier than it really works out. That is excellent news for Mac customers.

As with most newer drawing shows, there are not any shortcut buttons on the show itself. Huion features a handheld shortcut gadget—the Mini Keydial KD100 shortcut keyboard with many programmable keys and a rotating dial. The rotating dial will be programmed to carry out zoom, scrolling, or different capabilities. The keys will be configured to virtually any operate you want to carry out relying on the app getting used. As soon as arrange, the Mini Keydial KD100 is usually a productive time-saver—besides I don’t use it. I discovered shortcuts on an ordinary keyboard and might’t “unlearn” them. Nonetheless, I do see a bonus to utilizing the Mini Keydial should you’re beginning out or much less cussed than me.

I’m not an illustrator, however I exploit a pen show day by day for design and Photoshop manipulation. The Professional 19 is an effective dimension for drawing—as a secondary monitor. It feels too small to be the primary monitor for the work I do. The Professional 19 remains to be massive sufficient to point out a full-size working canvas with room left over for app palettes—particularly in full 4K decision.

Remember that 4k natively reduces the general dimension of something you see on display. Nonetheless, due to the 4K’s elevated variety of pixels per inch, the decision will be adjusted to make photographs, textual content, palettes, and so forth. bigger whereas holding sharpness. Right here’s the mathematics half: The Professional 19’s decision is 3840 x 2160 ppi. In the event you enlarge the decision to—for instance—2K (2560 x 1440 PPI), the display pixels are bodily bigger—so every thing will look bigger. However with 4K, it’s going to nonetheless be a greater high quality than a local 2K show due to the 4K’s elevated pixels per inch. If that appears complicated (as a result of it’s), simply know {that a} 4K monitor will all the time be sharper than a 2K and noticeably sharper than an HD show—it doesn’t matter what decision is used. 

Utilizing both pen supplies an easy reference to the show. The laminated display displays no parallax (the nib aligns with the cursor on the display) and drawing traces or utilizing brushes in portray/photograph apps is a pleasure. After utilizing each pens, I desire the usual over the slim pen. It simply feels extra pure. It’s good that Huion supplies a selection. I additionally desire the felt nibs. They offer a extra “paperlike” really feel to drawing. Whereas the brand new PenTech 4.0 is sweet, I can’t really feel any distinction between it and the earlier PenTech 3.0. 

The Huion Kamvas Professional 19 show sells for just below $1,000—half the worth of Huion’s Professional 27—an enormous distinction. But, even when in comparison with the smaller Wacom Professional 17 ($2,500), the Kamvas 19 turns into a cut price.

In case you are an expert who wants super-accurate coloration on the highest decision and can’t justify $2,000 for the Kamvas Professional 27, the Professional 19 offers you virtually every thing the Professional 27 supplies at half the associated fee. It’s a smaller display to make sure. If that’s too small, there’s Huion’s wonderful Kamvas Professional 24 (4K) at solely $170 greater than the Professional 19. That small worth distinction might make for a troublesome determination.

What I like concerning the Huion Kamvas Professional 27 graphics show

• Easy drawing really feel—with both pen 
• VESA appropriate
• Nice coloration
• No fan = no noise
• Solely a USB-C connection is critical
• Wi-fi mini keyboard shortcut keys included

What must be improved?

• Stand is an extra-cost choice
• The worth is sort of near the bigger Kamvas Professional 24 (4K)

Ultimate ideas

The Huion Kamvas Professional 19 is a good show that’s bigger than the Wacom Professional 17 and but a lot, a lot inexpensive! That’s actual competitors for Wacom. The one problem with the Kamvas Professional 19 comes from Huion itself with its solely barely dearer Kamvas Professional 24 (4K). These are fascinating occasions.

Worth: $1099.00
The place to purchase: Huion and Amazon
Supply: The pattern of this product was supplied by Huion. Huion didn’t have a last say on the evaluation and didn’t preview the evaluation earlier than it was revealed.