The Huion Q11k — Wasted Potential
I’ve been using Wacom tablets for what feels like forever. When I decided I want a more medium sized pen area I took a look at the competition and got myself a Huion Q11k for ~ 80€ (in comparison to Wacoms ~ 300€).
The comparison in a nutshell: I’m extremely disappointed.
On paper the Q11k really sweeps comparable Wacom tablets under the rug. It offers the same — or even better — stats than the Wacom variants for only a fraction of the price. The support is supposed to be very good and the availability is good as well.
While (for my taste) they have waaaay to many different product lines, this is some nig-nagging that does not really hold any value.
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I went ahead and ordered the Q11k because it covers everything you’d ever need: High level of pressure sensitivity, good update rates and build in wireless capabilities.
A few days later I unpacked and was pretty impressed. The overall quality of the hardware is great. It feels really valuable, there is no creaking of any kind and the accessories are not the cheap crap you’d expect.
Overall impression: This lovely hardware is easily worth > 80€ !
However my original opinion quickly shifted when I plugged the thing in my PC. First of all: When everything works properly, the tablet is brilliant.
Sadly I can count the minutes I experienced this at one hand.
Most of the time you either have issues with offsett, non-working pressure sensitivity or — most annoyingly — stuck cursors.
Every once in a while the current cursor freezes and you have to move the pen to the top right to reactivate it. The same behaviour can be seen when you get too close to the top or left. The cursor “sticks” to the border of the screen and you have to move in the pen from the side carefully to get it to unstick.
I tried everything in regards to drivers (administrator privileges, older versions, at which step to reboot/plug in the tablet, windows ink settings, windows update rollback , …) and even contacted their support (which did not answer).
So my verdict is: If you wanna test your luck: get it ! The hardware is great ! Everyone else ? Don’t bother. Maybe try in a few years, when they fixed their software.
To be fair I want to note that my screen setup is not typical: I have a landscape orientation 1440p screen and a portrait orientation 1080p screen side by side. But I deactivated the 1080p screen and reduced the 1440p to 1080p during testing to make sure that would not be an issue.
