The Future of OLED Screens May Be… Inkjet Printing?
TCL is introducing a new inkjet printing manufacturing process for OLED screens, which promises to lower production costs compared to traditional vacuum thermal evaporation. This technology is appearing in new hardware like the Lenovo Legion R9000P laptop and upcoming MSI monitors.
Why it matters
Lowering the cost of OLED production could make high-quality, high-refresh-rate displays more accessible to the average consumer.
Contrast-rich OLED displays sure are pretty, but they’re also still too pricey. TCL may have the remedy we’ve been waiting for—a new, cheaper way to make OLED screens for laptops thanks to “inkjet printing.” No, it’s not like your at-home paper printer… Okay, it’s kind of like your printer.
On Thursday, TCL CSOT shared details of a new China-exclusive laptop, the Lenovo Legion R9000P, complete with a 16-inch OLED display made by TCL’s touted “IJP”—aka inkjet printing—manufacturing process. The laptop screen supposedly hits a max 240Hz refresh rate, though neither company is sharing much else about the laptop specs. Lenovo sells several different Legion R9000 laptops in the Asian market.
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