How long will we wait for you from development to popular electronic paper?

Because of environmental protection, because it can be rewritten, because of the large amount of storage and the availability of online updates, e-paper is expected to have a lot to do in the future in newspapers, books, and even office space. But take a closer look, there are few “high-end” people who use e-paper and read e-books. Although EInk President Wilcox said some time ago, "nine companies launched products based on this technology last year." And their own production has surged from tens of thousands to millions.

Since its development, electronic paper has achieved little success. In terms of capacity, the storage of dozens of books and dozens of newspapers is much higher than most people's daily needs. In terms of sharpness, as early as the first half of 2002, SONY has demonstrated an electronic paper that is higher than the newspaper's reflectivity (about 60%), its reflectance reaches 73%, and its pure white performance is comparable to that of photocopying paper. Improve consumers' willingness to watch. As for the support of dynamic images, the electronic paper using powdered ink developed by the team of Kyushu University and Bridgestone has reached a speed of 0.2ms, which is enough to express a coherent video image. Collapsible and distortable, many electronic paper product manufacturers can develop such products. In addition, electronic paper also has inherent advantages in power saving. Due to the screen memory function, no power consumption is required when the screen is displayed.

Thanks to its tablet and modifiable capabilities, e-paper has even more people who are not used to the Internet. In the office, electronic paper can realize meeting records, document revisions, and prints at one go; handwritten annotations, leadership comments, and approvals are readily available; large amounts of data are stored; easy search and key marking. In the file management, electronic paper is suitable for a long time to read; self-revise, save, print; wireless lending, flexible and durable mobile office; permission settings; Even in hospitals, on the construction site, electronic paper can be used as an internal data management mobile device to make people work more efficiently and more easily. As for recreational entertainment during the journey, electronic paper can cooperate with the corresponding content providers and provide various types of best-selling books, foreign language learning, leisure and entertainment, and other file downloads. On April 15, 2006, Liberation Daily issued its own e-newsletter based on iRex iLiad e-paper.

According to statistics, EInk’s revenue for the last three years has grown by 200%-300% annually. However, for the application of e-paper, the editor of a domestic technology website said this: “Of course, the four processes of 'publishing', 'launching', 'shelving' and 'popularizing' all require a lot of time. Everyone waits and waits!"