Everything to know about Wacom Pro Pen 3

Review sample provided by Wacom Singapore

Here are all the things I know about the Wacom Pro Pen 3 after using it for several months with the Wacom MovinkPad Pro 14.

Grips

If you find the Wacom Pro Pen 3 too thin, you can buy grips for it.

Wacom has three grips available for this pen:

• Straight grip: USD 25 for two pieces
• Flare grip: USD 25 for two pieces
• Wooden grip: USD 50

If you find those grips too expensive, you can find more affordable ones on AliExpress, such as the one shown the photo above which is under USD 3.

Protect your pen tip with the grip

The pen with the grip will be much thicker to fit into any pen holder so to protect the pen tip when I bring it around, I just pull up the grip to cover the pen tip. This way, I can throw the pen into my bag and won't have to worry about the pen tip breaking.

Hidden pen tips

You can unscrew the back of the pen to reveal three hidden pen tips. Those pen tips provide slightly different tactile experience when drawing.

Beware the rubber tips

On Amazon, there's a product called "Wacom Pro Pen 3 Rubber Nibs (ACK253010Z)" priced at USD 15 for five pieces.

These pen tips are not made with rubber. If it's really rubber, it's hard rubber. Some product photos also show the packaging with "Standard" printed on it, so it's actually the standard nib.

I actually bought these pen tips thinking they would provide more tactility when drawing but it's the same as the default pen tips. Money wasted. What you want is actually the felt tips.

Other compatible pens

If you feel that the different pen tips of Wacom Pro Pen 3 is just too slippery for you, another option is to use other Wacom EMR pens. Shown above is the Wacom One Standard Pen fitted with the Wacom Elastomer nib.

The Wacom Elastomer nib is a rubberised nib that has excellent resistance or friction on glass, and can give you precise control that no other pen tips from Wacom Pro Pen 3 can provide. There is a rubbery feel rather wooden pencil feel when drawing.

The Wacom Elastomer nib is the one I prefer.

Before you can use other Wacom EMR pens

You may need to enable some settings before you can use other Wacom EMR pens.

On the Wacom MovinkPad Pro 14, you have to go into settings, Pen, enable "Enable use of pens not included with the device".

Selecting tools when pen is hovering

By default, Android tablets will enable palm rejection when the pen tip is near the display. This is unlike iPads where you can still select tools when the Apple Pencil pen tip is near the display.

To allow touch to work when pen tip is near the display, go into Settings, Wacom Lab, enable "Touch enabled when using the pen". Note that this may cause some bugs with some drawing apps. For example with Concepts, when pen tip is near and finger touches the display, a straight line will be drawn unintentionally.

Side buttons can be removed

The pen buttons can be removed and replaced with cover that has no buttons.

You will have to buy the Wacom Pro Pen 3 customisation kit to get those button-less cap though. This kit will also provide extra buttons, grips and a tool to adjust centre of gravity in the pen. All for USD 30. This is definitely more worth the money compared to just buying the grips alone from Wacom.

Pen tip remover

If you pull out the thing that holds the replacement pen tips, you can find the pen tip remover on the other side.