Samsung has announced that they’ll stop production of e-paper panels. The reason to exit the e-paper business is due to “cost issues” and apparently, e-paper’s not so promising future.

However, Samsung will continue to compete in the e-book reader market. In 2011, Samsung will launch a new e-book reader that will sport an LCD screen instead of e-paper.

Samsung launched few e-book readers this year but didn’t manage to get the expected response.

Amongst the different displays at the FPD 2009, Samsung is also showing a color e-paper that will hopefully be seen in the future e-book readers. The 10.1-inch 0.7mm thick color e-paper was made by combining the E-Ink’s e-paper, a glass TFT substrate and color filter and features a resolution of 450×600, contrast ratio of 10:1 and reflectance of about 12%.

Samsung plans to start mass producing within a year or two.

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At the SID Display Week, Samsung showed a color e-paper that was also capable of displaying moving pictures with the help of a switch. Samsung’s active matrix panel was created with the help of cholesteric liquid crystal and used a mysterious switch to turn into memory mode to function as a normal e-paper or dynamic mode to display running images.

The display is still in prototype stages and supports a 320×240 pixels resolution, 64 colors and a response time of 25ms or less.

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