E Ink’s Digital Posters Now Feature Improved Contrast So Colors Look More Vivid

Offering higher visibility in brilliant circumstances and decrease energy consumption, E Ink’s digital paper screens are gaining in reputation as alternate options to LCD and OLED panels for digital signage, and the corporate has simply made them much more interesting with an updated version of its color e-paper panels that includes significantly better distinction to enhance colour saturation and readability.

E Ink’s colour screens have been slowly discovering their approach into e-reader and e-note units by smaller corporations like PocketBook, Hisense, and Boox, merging all the advantages of digital paper with out requiring customers to eat content material like magazines and comedian books in black and white. However, the colour display expertise has but to be adopted by the most important gamers within the e-reader house, together with Amazon and Rakuten Kobo. The common client, no less than in North America, has to exit of their method to discover a system like an e-reader with a colour display, however there’s a great probability many have already skilled the expertise with out realizing it.

Where E Ink’s colour display expertise has been extra readily adopted is as an alternate to each printed and digital signage in shops and public areas. Grocery shops, particularly, have been fast to swap out paper shelf labels and value tags with compact E Ink displays. The tiny screens provide the identical readability as printed labels, however might be wirelessly up to date to account for value modifications or gross sales decreasing handbook labor, and with a built-in battery good for as much as 5 years, no further wiring is required to put in them.

Most quick meals eating places and low outlets have additionally traded printed hanging menus and different promotional shows for flat panel shows like LEDs and OLEDs, making them simpler to replace for promotions or different information. And that’s the place E Ink is making an attempt to increase its colour show expertise into subsequent. The firm’s new E Ink Gallery Plus panels—an replace to its E Ink Gallery shows—makes use of cyan, magenta, yellow, and white colour pigments to product a large gamut of colours for each pixel, and now gives a distinction ratio that’s been improved by 40%.

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E Ink’s black and white shows have at all times supplied wonderful distinction that’s akin to printed textual content on paper, however its colour show expertise is just some years previous at this level, and is enjoying catch-up in terms of vital elements like distinction and colour saturation relying on the lighting circumstances. The improved distinction of E Ink’s new Gallery Plus panels, which might be accessible in 13.3-inch, 25.3-inch, and 28-inch dimension choices, will assist the expertise higher compete with choices like LCD and OLED screens when largely static info, reminiscent of menu objects, are being displayed. E Ink expertise nonetheless isn’t optimized for displaying animated or video content material, however brings with it different benefits like low energy consumption which means it may be powered by rechargeable batteries, or perhaps a photo voltaic panel, to streamline set up.

The firm doesn’t anticipate the brand new colour e-paper panels to exchange the large screens utilized by airports or different public areas as info shows, however as a substitute sees the brand new E Ink Gallery Plus as a extra eco-friendly various to single-use printed posters used for promoting non permanent info or promotions. E Ink hasn’t revealed when it will likely be accessible en masse, however the bigger variations of the brand new panels are already in use in public transit stations in Taipei, Taiwan.