Last month Package Printing magazine mentioned casually in their bi-weekly email that Quantum Paper has released new electronic paper technology. Basically electronic paper is a very, very thin electronic display - as thin as a piece of paper. I think this is really big news, and I have been surprised that no one else in the printing media has picked up on it. It might be because E-Ink has beaten them to the gun, but the technology from Quantum Paper is really the next step forward.
What is revolutionary about Quantum Paper's technology is that is that the display is "printed" on paper, and can actually be printed by standard printing equipment. I think this is truly amazing, and it signals the very start of a huge shift in the printing industry. I firmly believe that this is the biggest development in printing since Gutenberg. I will probably be years or decades before this technology makes it into the mainstream, but within 20 years we will all be using electronic paper.
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