Parblo Coast12 Pro User manual

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Coast12 Pro Graphic drawing monitor
User Manual
Warnings:
1. Do not disassemble or refit the device. Damages such as heating, fire hazard, electric shock and personal injury may be
caused if you don’t follow such instruction. The warranty will be void in case of any disassembly;
2. Do not excessively bend the USB cable to avoid any damage. Damaged or broken USB cables, or any touch with water
and other liquid may cause malfunction, fire hazard and electric shock;
3. Do not insert any metal objects or foreign items into the mouth or ports. Damages such as malfunction and electric
shock may be caused if you don’t follow such instruction;
4. Keep out of reach of children, and separated parts or accessories may be swallowed accidentally by kids if you don’t
follow such instruction;
5. Do not wipe the product with alcohol, organic solution or neutral detergent in order to avoid damages such as color
change;
6. The following damages aren’t covered by the warranty scope:
(a) Damages caused by the large fluctuation of temperature;
(b) Damages caused by naked fire;
(c) Damages caused by falling
7. Do not disassemble the product due to its built-in precision electronic circuit. Any malfunction caused by unauthorized
disassembly won’t be covered by the warranty scope, but users can pay for such maintenance;
8. Please wipe the surface with soft clothes and rags.

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User Manual Outline
I Product Overview
1. Product Diagrams
II Connection Methods
1. Coast12 Pro Connection Methods
2. Computer System Requirements
III Install Drive Programs
1. Installation Notes
2. Windows
3. Mac
IV Introduction to the Driven Page
1. Windows
2. Mac
V Remove Drive Programs
1. Windows
2. Mac
VI Frequently Asked Questions and Solutions

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I Product Overview
Coast12 Pro Diagrams
Figure 1-1 Diagrams
(1) Mechanical rotation
(2) Rotation switch key (long press for 3s to turn on the UI key)
(3) Shortcut key
(4) Display/working area
(5) Brightness –
(6) Brightness +
(7) Power Switch
(8) Indicator (the red light indicates that there is no signal input, and the green light shows a normal display)
(9) Power interface (Connect to the interface extra if the graphic drawing monitor can’t be insufficiently powered by your
computer)
(10)Mini HDMI port
(11)USB-C data transmission port

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II Connection Methods
How to Connect the Coast12 Pro Graphic drawing monitor to Your Computer:
The following 2 methods are available, and you can make a decision according to the port type of your computer.
Method 1: Connect the crooked port of the USB cable ②and HDMI cable ①to the graphic drawing monitor, and insert
the straight port into your computer;
Figure 2-1 Connection Method 1
The graphic drawing monitor requires external power supply if it can’t be sufficiently powered by your computer. At this
time, Android Type-C cable can be used to be connected to the power port of the graphic drawing monitor ( );
Method 2: Connect the graphic drawing monitor to your computer via full-featured USB-C cable (with 2 heads) (Suitable
for partial Apple computers with Thunderbolt™3 and above protocols, and some windows computers with full-featured
USB Type-C ports);
Figure 2-2 Connection Method 2
III Install Drive Programs
Support the following operating systems:
Windows OS 10, 8 and 7
Mac OS 10.11 and more advanced systems
Notes:
(1) Please momentarily turn off antivirus software and firewall on computer prior to installation;
(2) Turn off all software such as Photoshop, AI and OneNote;
(3) If drivers of other graphic drawing tablets or monitors have been installed, please restart your

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computer after you remove them, then install Coast12 Pro drive program;
(4) Download the latest drive program on the official website of Parblo (www.parblo.com), then
decompress and open the file. Click “.exe” or “.pkg” to install;
(5) The maximum display resolution ratio of Coast12 Pro tablet is 1920x1080P.
Windows
1, Connect the crooked port of the USB cable ②and HDMI cable ①to the graphic drawing monitor, and insert the
straight port into your computer; The computer desktop will show on the graphic drawing monitor after a successful
connection;
2, Download the latest drive program on the official website of Parblo (www.parblo.com), and click “.exe”
to install after the file is decompressed;
3, The green Parblo icon can be found on Taskbar in the lower-right corner of the screen after a successful
installation. Please repeat the step 2 if you fail to find the small icon;
4, Go to “Control Panel” — “Display Settings” — Set “Change the Size of Text and Apps of Coast12 Pro Graphic drawing
monitor” to 100%;
Figure 3-1 Display Settings
5, Select “Replication Mode” or “Expansion Mode” in “Control Panel — Display Settings — Multiple Displays Settings”;

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Figure 3-2 Mode Settings
6, In case of expansion mode, please set the resolution ratio of Coast12 Pro to be 1920x1080, and set the handwriting area
to be Coast12 Pro graphic drawing monitor in the driver settings interface;
Figure 3-3 Display Mapping

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Mac
1, Connect the crooked port of the USB cable ②and HDMI cable ①to the graphic drawing monitor, and insert the
straight port into your computer; The computer desktop will show on the graphic drawing monitor after a successful
connection (USB-C cable ③with double heads can be used to connect to computers that support Thunderbolt™3);
2, Download the latest drive program on the official website of Parblo (www.parblo.com), then click “.pkg” to download
after the file is decompressed;
3, You can find the Parblo icon in the Launchpad after a successful installation;
4, “Permission Settings Description” will jump when you turn on the driver for the first time. File descriptions should be
installed to guide your settings in case of 10.14 or more advanced systems; for systems lower than Mac 10.14, it doesn’t
require such settings, and you only need to close the file;
5, Open “System Preferences—Display” menu, and set the resolution ratio to be “Display Default” in the display window;
6, Go to windows arranged below the “System Preferences—Display” interface and you can check “Mirror Monitor”. If you
want to check “Mirror Monitor”, please set the resolution ratio of all displays to be the same;
7, If you intend to turn off the “Mirror Monitor”, please set the resolution ratio of Coast12 Pro to be 1920x1080, and select
“Coast12 Pro” as the screen mapping in the drive interface.

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IV Introduction to Drive Functions
Windows
Find the Parblo icon on the table, and double click to open the drive page of the graphic drawing monitor. You
can also find the Parblo icon on Taskbar in the lower-right corner of the screen, and click to open;
Figure 4-1 Windows Drive Interface
1. Pen Settings Interface
1.1 Pressure Testing Area
Test whether there is pressure change during drawing in the area.

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Figure 4-2 Pressure Testing Area
1.2 Pen Key Settings
Set functions of 2 keys in the drawing pen according to your needs. Select hot keys to customize settings in the drop-down
list, and click “Reset” to restore keys’ functions to factory default settings;
Figure 4-3 Pen Key Settings
Note:
Click keys to activate functions only when the graphic drawing pen is within the sensing height (below 10mm) of
Coast12 Pro Graphic drawing monitor. The current keys’ function will show at the bottom of the display after you
press keys;
1.3 Pressure Adjustment & the Current Pressure
The change of the “Input” and “Pressure” curve will adjust its pressure sensitivity.
The current pressure shows the pressure sensitivity value.
1.3.1 The default pressure sensitivity—medium pressure

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Figure 4-4 Medium Pressure
1.3.2 High pressure sensitivity—softer pressure
Figure 4-5 Softer Pressure
1.3.3 Lower pressure sensitivity – harder pressure

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Figure 4-6 Harder Pressure
1.4 Coordinate Mode
“Absolute Coordinate” indicates that the graphic drawing monitor matches the coordinate position on display;
“Relative Coordinate” indicates that the position of the graphic drawing monitor relatively maps the screen’s resolution
ratio site (also known as mouse mode). Now, only graphic drawing tablets support such mode, instead of graphic drawing
monitors.
Figure 4-7 Coordinate Mode
1.5 Windows Ink
Check such function to support Windows handwriting tablet protocol, and partial drawing software support Windows Ink
function.
Figure 4-8 Windows Ink
2. Area Settings

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Figure 4-9 Area Settings
2.1 Display Settings
Users can select the control area of the graphic drawing pen as the display of the graphic drawing monitor or the main
engine of your computer;
2.2 Calibrate
Calibration function equipped with the graphic drawing monitor can avoid the space between the graphic drawing pen and
cursor;
The factory calibration value is the default.
图4-10 校准

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Figure 4-10 Calibrate
2.3 Rotation Settings
User can set the angle of Coast12 Pro graphic drawing monitor, and 0° is the default (it means that it can be used on the left).
In case of other angles, please rotate the Coast12 Pro graphic drawing monitor through the relevant angles clockwise.
3. Key Settings
Figure 4-11 Keys
Notes:
A. Set the input language to English when you are using shortcut keys, otherwise some functions may fail to work;
B. The default function of shortcut keys is the selected Photoshop command. You can set them according to your
needs;
C. The key in the middle of the rotation is set to switch the rotation functions.
3.1 Key Settings
The default setting of Parblo is the shortcut functions of Photoshop, and you can customize the functions of K1, K2, K3, K4,
K5 and K6. Click the drop-down list to select “Hot Keys” and enter the self-defined interface.

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Figure 4-12 Self-defined Keys 1
Figure 4-12 Self-defined Keys 2
3.2 Rotation Settings

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Figure 4-14 Rotation Settings
The default functions of R1, R2 and R3: Mouse wheel, canvas zoom (Photoshop), brush zoom (Photoshop). R4, R5 and R6
come no functions, and you can click the drop-down list to define your settings according to your actual demands.
Figure 4-15 Self-defined Rotation 1

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Figure 4-16 Self-defined Rotation 2
3.3 Turn off Prompts & Disable Shortcut Keys
Check “Turn off Prompt”, and no function names will be prompted during your use;
Check “Disable Shortcut Keys”, and keys’ functions fail to work.
3.4 Self-defined Options
Figure 4-17 Self-defined Option 1
The default setting is the Parblo built-in key + rotation function (Photoshop), and you can click to add in order to configure
more software with self-defined keys’ functions.

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Figure 4-18 Self-defined Option 2

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Figure 4-19 Self-defined Option 3
Click the software icon that has been added to customize its key and rotation functions;
Select the software icon and click “Remove” to delete the current software configuration;
Click “Reset” to restore the default settings.
4. Configuration Settings
Figure 4-20 Configuration Settings
You can save and read the set value of functions such as shortcut keys and rotation via export and import configuration.
Note:
It is essential to click “OK” at the bottom to save after you finish all function settings of shortcut keys, then click “Export
Configuration” to save your settings.

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Figure 4-21 Export Configuration
Figure 4-22 Import Configuration
5. About

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Figure 4-23 About
Show the current driver version: 2.3.18
Show the current firmware version: 1.25
Mac
You can find the Parblo icon in the Launchpad, then click to open the drive interface.
Figure 4-24 Drive Icon