

It will ultimately display over 4,096 different color combinations at 100 PPI.Į INK recognized there were some fundamental problems with Kaleido, that needed to be addressed right away. If you want orange, then yellow and red would be blended. The way it works is if you want light blue, blue will be toned down and white will be brighter.

Colors can be combined to give you different colors or shades. This includes red, green, blue, black or white. Kaleido e-paper can produce color for each pixel that is displayed on the screen. In addition, E Ink’s faster ink enables quicker updates for animations and video. This allows e-reader companies to combine the power of traditional black and white displays with color for a more fully realized ebook shopping experience. The new printing process alleviates the need for a glass-based CFA, making the displays thinner and lighter than previous generations, while simultaneously having higher optical quality. Kaleido utilizes a new printed Color Filter Array (CFA) technology in conjunction with E Ink’s second generation, faster and brighter, Carta 1100 ink.

Last year, after three years of development, E INK released Kaleido e-paper in 2020. The vast majority of releases were aimed at the Chinese market, but only a few were appealed to a wider, international audience. This is primarily attributed to E INK developing e-paper called Kaleido and many brands have released devices that are geared towards reading ebooks, e-notes and also smartphones. Within the past 12 months there has been a resurgence in color e-readers.
