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Electronic paper based on inkjet printing technology, realizing significant reduction of environmental impact and costs
Ricoh constantly pursues technological development aimed at reducing the environmental impact of paper consumption and, as part of these efforts, has succeeded in developing a reflective display with fine pixels based on inkjet printing technology to replace the display function of paper. With this technology, which is expected to be utilized for various applications including electronic books and advertisements,
transistor electrode patterns are traced on a special resin that becomes hydrophilic when exposed to the UV light, which is coated on the thin, pliable paper-like plastic base (electronic paper), realizing a resolution as high as that of existing electronic paper. While existing electronic paper, which is fabricated by fine semiconductor processing technology,
requires a complicated production process and a large-scale vacuum facility, making the environmental impact and costs excessively large, Ricoh's technology is expected to reduce the environmental impact and reduce costs by half.
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