09.09.05
Seiko Epson Corp., Japan, and Cambridge Display Technology Ltd. (CDT), U.K., have reached an agreement after several years of joint development to form a joint venture company to offer technologies and services using ink jet deposition for manufacturing light emitting polymer (LEP) displays.
The new company, which is named “Polyink,” will be jointly established by Seiko Epson and CDT to offer a “total solution package” to display makers manufacturing high resolution, active matrix displays.
LEPs, which are easily soluble in solvents, can be laid down in arrays forming red, green and blue (RGB) pixels by ink jet printing. The drop sizes used to create pixels are extremely low volume, which has necessitated major development of printer head technology and ink jet formulations to match these heads.
Seiko Epson and CDT have worked jointly on these issues for several years, utilizing Seiko Epson's ink jet printing technologies and CDT’s ink formulation technologies, and have reached the stage at which commercialization can take place.
The two companies are moving into this commercialization to provide an ink jet printing machine with Epson’s print head and inks, whose formulations have been specified by CDT especially for these heads.
The new company, which is named “Polyink,” will be jointly established by Seiko Epson and CDT to offer a “total solution package” to display makers manufacturing high resolution, active matrix displays.
LEPs, which are easily soluble in solvents, can be laid down in arrays forming red, green and blue (RGB) pixels by ink jet printing. The drop sizes used to create pixels are extremely low volume, which has necessitated major development of printer head technology and ink jet formulations to match these heads.
Seiko Epson and CDT have worked jointly on these issues for several years, utilizing Seiko Epson's ink jet printing technologies and CDT’s ink formulation technologies, and have reached the stage at which commercialization can take place.
The two companies are moving into this commercialization to provide an ink jet printing machine with Epson’s print head and inks, whose formulations have been specified by CDT especially for these heads.