Huion and XP-Pen Pressure Test: Pressure, Tilt and Hover

Pressure works in one program but not another

Huion and XP-Pen drivers can hand the pen to Windows in two ways: through Windows Ink, or through the older WinTab interface that some drawing programs use. The checkbox for Windows Ink in the driver decides which, and a wrong setting is the most common reason pressure seems to vanish.

1. Open this page and draw. Watch the badge above the gauge.
2. Badge reads Mouse, or the gauge sits at 50%: the browser is getting plain mouse input. Open the driver, tick Windows Ink (XP-Pen puts it in the pen settings; Huion labels it Enable Windows Ink or Win Ink), apply, and restart the browser.
3. Badge reads Pen and the gauge moves: the tablet, driver and Windows Ink are fine. If your drawing program still has no pressure, that program is set to WinTab: switch the program’s tablet setting, or untick Windows Ink as Huion advises for WinTab software, and check again in the program.
4. Run Pressure ramp once the gauge moves, to confirm the whole range reaches the page.

Tilt and the Disable tilt option

XP-Pen’s driver can switch tilt off entirely, so a Tilt X and Y that never leave 0° may only be that option. Huion quotes ±60° for the Kamvas 13 (Gen 3); after enabling tilt, the tilt test shows how far each direction reaches.

Slow-line jitter

A slow diagonal drawn against a ruler shows jitter best. The Diagonal line test turns it into a number in pixels, so you can compare a driver’s smoothing levels, or two tablets, side by side. For Wacom pens there’s a Wacom set-up, and any pen works on the base pen pressure test.