What is electronic ink?
October 24, 2009 // Posted by: Techie // Category: Industry Technology, Office Applications, Technology
Electronic ink is also referred to as E-paper is the latest technology which is used to replace or mimic the paper and ink technology. There are three major components of the electronic ink namely microcapsule, ink and the chips which are present inside the capsule. They are used in the manufacture of digital e-books. The latest technology of electronic ink has many uses. This technology can help readers all over the world to download the e-books online.
This revolutionary technology can also be used in the newspaper industry which may help the readers download the newspaper from the mobile. E-ink and Xerox are two major companies which employ the technology of electronic ink. The major applications of electronic ink include cell phones, digital photo frame, newspapers, e-books, wristwatches, digital school books and displays embedded in smart cards. The major disadvantage of electronic ink is that they have low refresh rate when compared with other technologies.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Xerox has also come up with a breakthrough idea of using silver ink to print electronic circuits. they are trying to use this technology simply by just using an inkjet printer to print on various types of material. Currently they are using it in the EZ-Pass application.