New Print Market?

-- Graphic Arts Online, 1/17/2008 8:12:00 PM

The emergence of saleable products—including televisions, MP3 players, digital cameras—using organic light emitting diode display (OLED) screens offers printers a new market to absorb press capacity. Sony Corp. said this week it is introducing a high-quality OLED television (shown) as thick as three stacked credit cards to the U.S. market.

Thermal CTP plates allow offset printing presses to print the light-emitting organic materials of an OLED display at required resolutions, which could open new markets for commercial printers. For more (

Sony’s 11” XEL-1 television, to go on sale this month, is Sony's first television for the U.S. to use organic light-emitting diode technology, which the company says enables superior picture quality (contrast ration of 1 million to one) on super-thin displays. Sony announced its news and also demonstrated a prototype 20” version at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The XEL-1 is priced at $2,500.

Samsung lso displayed OLED TV prototypes, 14” and 32” models, at the event.