Not long ago, E Ink corporation and Wacom also unveiled their first-ever color E-Ink Reader which will undergo mass production in Q3 2020. Later, Hisense worked with E Ink and released the first color E-Ink reading mobile phone at CES 2020. It seems like clolor E-Ink is going to be the popular technology topic in the coming years. So what’s color E-Ink and how does it actually work? Let’s find out in this post.
1. What is Color E-Ink and How does It Work?
What is color E-Ink?
Color E-Ink is a new popular color electronic paper display technology which produces color for each pixel that is displayed on the screen. This includes red, green, blue, black and white. It can also combine the colors allowing it to perform like a full color screen. At the same time, color E-Ink maintains the same ultra-low-power and paper-like readability as regular E-Ink display. Basically, color E-Ink is a standard E-Ink display with colour filters.
How does color E-Ink work?
With any reflective display we are using white light, which usually refers to natural light that contains all of the colors of the visible spectrum in roughly equal intensity. The challenge is to filter the desired color from the full spectrum. To do this, color e-ink display layers a transparent Color Filter Array over the black and white display. The Color Filter Array consists of one Red, Green, Blue, and White sub-pixel per full pixel on the black and white layer. Thus E-Ink display has the ability to combine various degrees of filtering to achieve most visible colors. Below picture explains the principle of how Triton’s color E-Ink display works. In short, color E-Ink is nothing but a E-ink display with three types of color filters slapped on top of it.
2. Benefits of Color E-Ink Display Technology
The main advantages of color E-Ink over E-Ink is that color E-Ink brings a lot of joy of reading colorful comics, magazines and graphic books. Here are some of important technical advantages offered by color E-Ink.
Colorful – displays thousands of colors and provides beautiful color images.
High resolution – describes an image displayed at high DPI (dots per inch) and contains a high amount of visual information.
Paper-like readability – reduces eyestrain since you are not staring at a LED screen.
Low power consumption – E-Ink display is non-volatile and does not draw power when the image does not change.
No glare – allows you to view text and pictures clearly in bright sunlight.
3. How to Read eBooks on Color E-Ink Devices
The key to be able to read ebooks on color E-Ink devices is to get rid of DRM protection since many books purchased from big online ebook stores, like Amazon/Kobo/Google Play/Barnes & Noble, etc, are encrypted. In fact, it’s easy to remove DRM with the help of professional DRM Removal tool – Epubor Ultimate. If you are interested in liberating your purchased ebooks and read them with any device, you can follow this step by step guide to decrypt and convert Kindle/Nook/Google Play/Kobo books.
Tips: For Mac Catalina (10.15 and above operation system) users, Epubor KCR Converter is the only solution to help you export Kindle books from Kindle Cloud Reader to ePub/azw3/mobi/pdf without downloading Kindle books via Kindle desktop app. For detailed instruction, you can follow this guide to convert Kindle books with KCR Converter.
Conclusion
E-Reader like Kindle Paperwhite is very popular because it allows you to carry around thousands of books and read them off a paper-like display everywhere you want. What’s more, a color version would do the same, plus it would enhance other works as well, like digital comics. Is that enough to get consumers’ attention? Let’s look forward to the brand new color E-Ink reading devices!
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