Uno of the biggest culprits The e-reader revolution, such as E-Ink, has begun to diversify into other types of market segments in recent years. One of those new avenues taken is digital signage, which was valued at $ 16.880 million in 2015 and expected to reach $ 27.340 million by 2022.
E-Ink has also been focusing on other types of segments as are the agreements with commercial surfaces such as Whole Foods, one that has a growth year after year of 100% for the last three and that follows this path without encountering any obstacle.
E-Ink published his figures for the second quarter of 2016 with operating profit of $ 5.437.895 and it is the first time that it has managed to reap the benefits for some time. In the first quarter of the year it posted losses of $ 8,4 million.
35% of its income comes from the e-tags used in luggage, the Digital signage and LCD panels. It is at the bus stops where, thanks to an agreement with a European company called Visionect, they have been able to provide their panels. Its panels in these locations are a hit with dynamic information that is updated through a 3G connection.
Another of his successes is the new Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP) that will not be introduced on ereaders until 2018. A high quality panel and full color It can produce the full color gamut in each pixel to display more than 32.000 different colors at a resolution of 1600 x 2500 with 150 ppi.
The handicap of this technology is that it is incompatible with Regal, the EPD driver that makes e-readers capable of turning pages quickly. So we will stay for some years without new technology that can become the main excuse to change e-reader.