Over on reddit, somebody posted side-by-side photos of the brand new Exceptional Paper Professional (left) subsequent to the Boox Go 10.3 with a Carta 1200 display screen (center) and the SuperNote A5X2 with Carta 1300 (proper), and it’s exhausting to imagine how a lot worse the Exceptional’s coloration display screen seems to be in comparison with common black and white E Ink screens.
I’ve been suspicious of the Exceptional Professional’s new Gallery 3 coloration display screen ever because it first got here out, however I wasn’t prepared to shell out $600+ simply to see a Gallery 3 display screen in individual (and I’ve all the time detested the Exceptional’s abominable studying software program).
The Exceptional Paper Professional is the primary eNote to make use of E Ink’s Gallery 3 display screen expertise with coloured micropixels as a substitute utilizing a coloration filter layer over a black and white display screen like E Ink’s Kaleido screens on gadgets such because the Kobo Libra Color and Kindle Colorsoft.
Some individuals like Kaleido screens for the added coloration, however others don’t just like the darker high quality of the display screen created by the filter layer, and you’ll even see the filter should you look carefully and a few individuals discover the visible noise of it distracting.
When the brand new Exceptional got here out with the Gallery 3 display screen, individuals have been thrilled to see a substitute for Kaleido screens, and plenty of simply assumed Gallery screens could be superior in each approach, however there are good the explanation why ereader corporations aren’t all switching to Gallery screens now.
Having coloured micropixels appears like a good suggestion on the floor, however in apply having coloured ink utterly compromises the standard of black and white ink.
Subsequent to common BW E Ink screens, blacks on the Gallery 3 display screen look extra like darkish blue, and the white coloration is lots yellower and darker. Given all of the current hate for yellow frontlights on the brand new Kindles, individuals’s heads would explode over the yellowness of a Gallery 3 Kindle. And I don’t suppose very many individuals could be cool with altering Darkish Mode to Darkish Blue Mode, and having to surrender good darkish black textual content for a bizarre blue coloration.
The actual kicker is all of the uniformed naysayers on-line decrying the worth of E Ink’s Kaleido screens, saying they’re pointless now and the way Gallery 3 screens are far superior. Look ahead to Gallery screens in order for you coloration E Ink, they are saying. Gallery screens are a lot better! Yeah, proper.
I feel the straightforward fact of the matter is coloration E Ink is all the time going to return with some compromises. It’s simply the character of the expertise. Coloration E Ink is rarely going to completely supplant black and white E Ink.
Take a look at this put up on reddit for some extra photos and to see the above pictures in increased decision.
