Thread: Innovative solution for e-Ink screen lighting
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:17 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by NightGeometry View Post
Surely the flex light would be no help. It is lighting *above* the text. WOuldn't you want the light below the text, so that the dark areas block some light (and hence the problem with white/black eink).

I guess this is adding reflective light, so should work that way it just seems... wrong. (But i'm no lighting engineer)
One of the whole points about e-ink is reflective viewing - it doesn't shine a light in your eyes so putting a light at the back for the dark letters to obscure... means the rest is shining a light in your eyes... just like an LCD...
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