Inspire1000 Digital Art Projector by Artograph

I do not use the unit for home theatre. In my use for art work it works well. The only problem I had was that an included 4gb flash drive was corrupted and would not "fix" or "reformat". It did not contain critical data and flash drives are available elsewhere. Not good, but not a deal breaker. I think that for artist, the unit is better than trying to jerry-rig a multimedia projector for closer canvas detail work. Art work is what it's made for and that's what it does. The quick set up guide shows the button on top as a power button. I pushed it and nothing happened. For a moment I thought that the unit was failed. The top button is really a sleep/wake button and the true power button is a slide switch on the side. The slide switch actually turns the power on and off. When I slid it to the on position, all worked well. The Quick set up manual might better handle that. The light output is adequate for working on canvas even in well lighted rooms. No problem there. The image is clear and easily adequate for sketching in details for a painting. The unit is well designed and constructed. I wish a USB cable which would connect the unit to a PC was part of the package. The package does include an HDMI cable. I had an issue with the units light Blinking while moving the projected image up/down to adjust the image. I contacted Customer service and they went to a great deal of effort to provide an answer. It turns out the blinking was the normal image adjustment and was actually a positive feature of the unit, not a problem. I was highly impressed with the customer service response both by email and telephone.

The Impression1400 is a serious artist tool for serious artists. Professional artists will find its grids and perspective arrays to be extremely useful and will generally love this projector. I find it an outstanding device in the studio and even outdoors at night where electricity is available (obviously, only in fine weather). It has the power for fairly large artworks. A good investment for the professional. Both vertical and horizontal keystone control are excellent. You can also skew images by moving a single corner. It means you can adjust images to fit odd shapes. Has a mount screw hole for using on a camera tripod (use a ball head to be able to project onto a ceiling. Make sure the tripod is sturdy enough to not tip over). The high and low contrast grayscale modes are a great help when painting. The Impression1400 costs more than similar sized projectors that are intended for viewing videos etc, but I am unaware of another projector that is so well tuned to the needs of the professional artist. Casual or beginner artists should know that the projector will not make artwork better, or necessarily easier to do. It could easily be an expensive toy for anyone inexperienced with perspective and using grids, and potentially a disappointment. Artograph makes smaller projectors at lower price points that might be more suitable but still have useful grid tools built in.

Just got it so still learning but instructions included are sorta worthless as it has pictures for other models all together. There is a web site and phone to call for help though. I think it will do all I need except flip an image which is a shame given that it’s a pricey product. But it’s well made and you get a good image. If you are an artist you’re going to want to get a tripod for it to get best results for sizing and placement

While the picture quality is good, very good in a dimly lit room, there are some really annoying and easily fixable issues. First off, the flash drive is unusable. i could see gibberish files, but couldn't open any, added an image of my own, which was not available when I plugged it into the USB port, though it was clearly there on the drive. I could not reformat it either on Mac or PC. Junk. I tossed it. Why include it? It's obviously garbage. Secondly, the power cord is ridiculously short, doesn't give you much more than table top height to floor. The menus are archaic looking, though functional, and the settings are easy to navigate. Overall, some updated software UI and, dang, do something about the stupid flashdrive and I'd feel like I got my money's worth. I use Apple products so had to buy a USB powered HDMI to lightning cable for the iphone and Macbook to connect, but they did plug-n-play as advertised. So, my own USB drive, another cable and an extension cord and I was good to go. Too bad, since these annoyances should be pretty simple to fix, but adversely impacted my overall response to the product. I don't feel like it's worth the money at this point.

I ordered this thing based on the numerous positive reviews here but after wasting 2 hrs trying to get it to work as advertised the only review here that matches my experience is the one star review by Susan Henry. In her review she noted that she wasn't able to get it to work with either her iPad or iPhone, which I also use. I had the same experience as hers. Based on that I suspect that this thing won't work with Apple products which isn't noted in any of the ads or literature. It comes with HDMI cable which needs a lightning digital AV adapter in order to plug in iPhone/iPad. But when plugged into the HDMI port of the thing all I get is "No Signal" even though the instructions claim that the mobile unit's screen should show up. At first i thought I had a faulty adapter cable so I bought another one and got the same results. My devices were fully charged and ready to go but "No Signal". The thing also comes with two thumb drives. One is a normal thumb drive while the other one has plugs built into it for USB and HDMI. I plugged the normal one into my iMac and loaded some jpegs on it but when I plugged it into the thing I got the message "Empty Folder". I then used two other thumb drives of my own that I know work and got the same results. "Empty Folder". I then changed the formats of the jpegs to png and bmp with the same results. "Empty Folder". The thing comes with 2 Quick Start guides. One basically tells the user how to turn the thing on and off. The other, in extreme fine print, starts out explaining how to connect a smartphone using a wireless connection which I hoped would be a way around the non-working USB and HDMI ports. I wasted time following the instructions to the letter but to no avail. It wasn't until I looked below the fold of the guide that I read this in fine print..."You cannot connect the product to a mobile phone through the Bluetooth function." Then I went online to the thing's site and followed the links to troubleshooting for Apple products. The site instructed that to get it up and running it had to be done from an iMac desktop. My iMac desktop isn't in my studio and I wasn't about to move it in order to maybe get the thing to work as advertised. The whole point was to be able to use mobile devices with it but I could find nothing online regarding how to use it with iPhone/iPad. So that was a dead end. However, I was able to find a number on the site for customer support given that I could find no such number in any of the guides/manuals that comes with the thing. One of the reasons that I bought the thing was the promise of lifetime support. Unfortunately I learned after the fact that lifetime support doesn't include weekends and I suspect holidays too. The only time I have to work in my studio is on the weekends and this was a Saturday. So in regard to support when i needed it the most, I was SOL. At that point I called Amazon for a return/refund. Thankfully Amazon has customer support 24/7 and they emailed a return address for me to send the thing back asap. There's no reason why something that costs this much shouldn't work as advertised. This would be a great product if it worked and I'm still looking for something that fits the bill. If anyone out there knows of such a product and it works with Apple products, I'd be very grateful to learn about it. BTW I do have an Artograph Super Prism Art Projector that uses an incandescent 250w bulb. But it has to be used in an almost totally dark room in order to see the projected image. I've been using it for years though and despite the shortcomings it's still better than the Flare 150 because it works.

Well, I've reviewed, hunted, and explored every option I could find for a projector that would fill my needs. I paint from sizes 6"x6" canvas to very large 24 x36 inch. You likely know all the benefits and technical details about this projector, but I want to add my two-cents worth of my experience with it just for the few of you who might benefit. For my very small...I'm talking 5 or 6 inch canvas/wood/ etc ....I go to photoshop and size the image I wish to use...for example my 6x6 inches...first I make my image that size in inches on the document but instead of saving it as a 6x6 I put that little file size on a 12"x12" blank document and center it. Since the projector doesn't have any trouble clearly projecting that 12x12 size in great focus, I then center the 6x6 part of that file over my selected surface and bingo...I have a perfectly in-focus image ready to trace onto my work surface. You may have a better way but this is the easiest way for me. I am perfectly happy with the projector and feel it is worth the money to have something that works. I don't have to darken my room at all for the sizes that I work with. I use my porable projection stand and or my adjustable easel for my canvases, and mount the projector on a very sturdy tri-pod making my work environment readily accessible to my work. It works for me !! Hope this review might help someone who might have similar problem that I had . Inspire1000 Digital Art Projector by Artograph

I am an art student and I was screaming when I turned this projector on . It is better then ANY projector that we have at school. CRISP!!!! CLEAR!!!! the Colors of the flowers were better on my canvas then the picture was on my PC!!!!!!! WOW!!! WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!! I will NEVER be without an Artograph projector AGAIN!!!!!!

LOVE IT. I’d better for the price though! It works while you are charging it and if it is charged works without the cord. Comes with a remote, a flash drive, a flash drive adaptor to work with memory cards, a small case that really can only fit the projector (not the remote unfortunately) and of course the projector itself. Images show up clear and bright even when they are shown in a lighted room. Although I wouldn’t recommend projecting a small and dark image in a lighted room, you won’t get much detail. I thought about getting a normal projector but for $100 more the portable compact size and crisp images are well worth it to me. I work on very large canvases so I can’t say too much about how it would be for smaller pieces

I use it as an enlarger for my painting. Works great when I want to put a picture onto a canvas, big or small. Less time consuming trying to draw it on and everything works out well proportioned. I recommend this product.

I use the Flare 150 to speed up the art process so that I can get on with the painting part more quickly. Can be used anytime and is simple to use.

Seems user friendly. Very small, compact. My only complaint is that its misleading about the connectivity. Bluetooth enabled suggests that you can use Bluetooth tech to wirelessly send images to the projector. This is what I expected. But you have to connect with a cable to your phone, laptop, mobile device. And the cable isn't included, and nowhere in town can I find the right cable. Bluetooth is only for audio. Which i dont need. There is a USB port but that won't dock with my phone either, it has to be a USB storage device. So to get images from my phone I need a special cable with an adapter or I need to transfer the files to my computer then onto a USB. It's a hassle. This day and age technology should allow my phone to connect with this wirelessly, and I felt the description tried to insinuate this but didn't make it super clear to the buyer. Also, a cable or adapter should have been included.