March 2016

CHK America, a designer of public transportation customer information solution signed an agreement with E Ink to co-develop advanced digital wayfinding solutions utilizing E Ink technology.

The first products to introduce are Digital Bus Stops (as you can see above). These provide easily-readable up dated bus stop schedule and work under all lighting conditions. CHK is also developing additional E Ink based products across various industry sectors including transit agencies and smart city developers.

Visionect, together with E Ink, launched a new 32" E Ink development kit. This new dev kit supports the largest e-paper module in production. The new kit is available either in monochrome (2560x1440, 16-level grayscale) or color (1280x720).

Both kits feature ab LED front-light and an integrated ambient light sensor. The kits are already on offer at Visionect's online store.

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) announced a strategic partnership with E Ink to co-develop and co-market products that use E Ink displays. DNP will use its strong sales network in Japan to market new products targeted at the marketing and sales promotion segment of the retail market, and the security card and smartcard business for the financial and transportation market segments.

E Ink will provide e-paper displays and engineering support to DNP. The two companies will focus on two product types. The first will incorporating E Ink Prism color changing film into retail promotion displays used by retailers for new product launches, in-store promotions and numerous marketing and merchandising activities. 

Back in June 2014, E Ink (together with GDS) developed a 32" 2560x1440 E Ink display, which is the world's largest e-paper panel. According to a new report, E Ink aims to produce even larger panels, with the first one being released later in 2016.

E Ink's chairman admits that the company does not have sufficient production capacity to produce large E Ink panels in volume, and it will have to look for manufacturing partners. The company prefers to find a partner in Taiwan - AU Optronics, Innolux and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) are all possible partners.