Low cost high tech paper for volume production

In the USA, Quantum Paper has produced the first production quantities of electronic paper, using a technology claimed to bring the printing and electronic display industry “an important step closer to a commercial reality “.

Initial manufacturing and shipping of electronic paper displays based on Quantum’s patents pending technology – where a working high quality electronic display is printed on a paper substrate – has begun. While the company will manage these first production runs, it plans to license high quality printers in the US to take over responsibility for the volume production of electronic paper based displays.

“Because it is manufactured on paper by using standard printing presses with no requirement for specialized equipment, our technology offers a highly cost effective means to produce attractive and impactful displays,” says Michael J Feldman, Quantum’s president and ceo. “Our electronic paper is bendable and lightweight, and can be created on a variety of substrates.”

“This technology has the potential to transform printing as we know it,” says Dr William J Ray, the principal inventor and Quantum’s chief technology officer. “It is no exaggeration to call it one of the most important developments in the printing industry in more than 100 years.”

An electronic display printed on ordinary paper or other substrate (including board, static cling, plastics, cloth, glass) electronic paper can be illuminated in its entirety or selectively. This can be used to highlight or backlight selected areas or to produce programmable alphanumerical segment displays. Applications where static displays can be applied include outdoor signage and advertising, point-of-purchase displays, as well as printed brochures, magazines and newspapers.

The technology can also be used to create the equivalent of “television on paper”. Quantum Paper is developing fully addressable, high quality dynamic colour displays with the potential of replacing conventional cell phone and PDA screens, computer monitors, interactive billboards, electronic wallpaper and high definition televisions “at a fraction of today’s cost”.

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