The continued increase in digital display content and greater user awareness on the importance of visual health has led to increased adoption of ePaper. E Ink’s reflective displays are known to be easy on the eyes, providing a more comfortable viewing experience and without the emissive light of monitors, tablets and cell phones.
However, existing display product standards are aimed at emissive displays such as LCD and OLEDs, and are not useful for reflective displays like ePaper, making an industry standard for scientifically evaluating the performance of ePaper and other reflective display products a necessity.
E Ink Kaleido™ Plus is a color ePaper display module, certified by TÜV Rheinland Greater China (“TÜV Rheinland”), the international testing, inspection and certification body.
E Ink and experts at TÜV Rheinland worked in collaboration for two years to develop a metric for evaluating specific optical indicators on reading comfort for paper-like display products. These parameters were then evaluated against reading comfort in conjunction with user experience to arrive at the Paper Similarity Index (PSI). PSI will help consumers select ePaper products that offer a high level of reading or visual comfort.
E Ink has nine display partners making ePaper modules leveraging E Ink’s unique paper-like materials. E Ink will continue to enable more applications using ePaper with partners to provide more eye-friendly, eco-friendly and low-carbon emission display solutions.
The paper-like display offers 16 gray levels and 4,096 colors, making it suitable for rich graphical information such as graphs, maps, images, comics, and advertising. Text and detailed images can be clearly displayed even in outdoor lighting conditions.
