60Hz, a milestone indicator for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in video playback, has long been an unattainable goal for ePaper. On January 21, 2025, Dasung launched the Paperlike 103 "Revolutionary," an ePaper display with a special mission. Its 60Hz refresh rate has become a highlight in the ePaper industry, marking the first time ePaper has matched LCDs in refresh speed and fundamentally reversing its historical disadvantage in this regard. 
For a long time, ePaper has stood out in static reading, note-taking, handwriting, and information display due to its eye-protective feature (non-emissive) and ultra-low power consumption (static images require no power), emerging as a rising star in the new display field. However, the low refresh rate caused by its display principle—relying on electrophoretic effects, where tiny black and white particles migrate in an oil film to form images—has restricted its application in devices like monitors and smartphones. The physical limitation of particle migration typically confines ePaper refresh rates to only 1-2 frames per second. While acceptable for page-turning reading, dynamic interactions, interface switching, or animations result in severe ghosting, afterimages, and stuttering. This bottleneck has confined ePaper to single-use scenarios centered on reading, hindering its expansion into office, education, entertainment, industrial visualization, and other high-frequency interactive fields. Consequently, ePaper has remained a niche technology, struggling to gain widespread adoption in smart terminals.
2014 marked a pivotal turning point for ePaper application innovation and drive technology. That year, Gong Guer, a Chinese science fiction writer, proposed an unprecedented idea: Why not use ePaper as a computer monitor? This concept seemed radical at the time, as neither the technical environment nor industry trends suggested ePaper could handle high-frequency dynamic display tasks. Yet, this bold demand from the application end would later spark revolutionary breakthroughs for the entire ePaper industry.
Gong Guer’s vision stemmed not from chance inspiration but from his profound insight into the future of human information environments and visual health. In an era of intense information density, global users spend over 8-10 hours daily facing screens, making computer monitors not just tools but "second visual organs" and vital productivity aids. While mainstream LCD and OLED screens offer vibrant colors and fast response, their blue light, flicker, and other characteristics have increasingly contributed to eye fatigue, vision decline, and neurological irritation. This contradiction between technology and physiology urgently demanded a new eye-protective display solution.
Thus, Gong Guer founded Beijing Dasung Technology Co., Ltd. and assembled a R&D team to tackle ePaper display technologies comprehensively. In the same year, Dasung launched the world’s first ePaper computer monitor—Paperlike—开辟 (opening up) a new frontier for ePaper applications. As a genuine eye-protective office device, Paperlike broke free from the constraints of e-reader form factors, entering mainstream office scenarios as an independent monitor. This innovation created a new product category: ePaper displays, which won the "Pioneering Award for Innovative Application of ePaper" from the Electronic Paper Industry Alliance in 2023.
The Paperlike series incorporates Dasung’s proprietary DASUNG Turbo ePaper high-refresh patented technology, significantly boosting ePaper refresh speeds. Although DASUNG Turbo couldn’t match LCD speeds initially, its performance far exceeded all contemporary ePaper products, supporting basic office tasks like web browsing, document editing, and code input. This breakthrough shocked the industry, proving for the first time that ePaper could handle dynamic interactions, shattering the stereotype that it was limited to static reading.
Dasung continued to deepen its ePaper refresh technology, iterating through algorithm optimization, circuit integration, and hardware upgrades. Successive generations of the Paperlike series raised refresh rates to over 10 frames per second, building a user community and market recognition for office-oriented ePaper, with products sold in over 80 countries. The company has sustained R&D investments in ePaper refresh speed and display algorithms.
In September 2024, Dasung unveiled the Paperlike Color (Revolutionary), the world’s first ePaper display featuring next-generation ultra-high refresh patented technology. Its refresh speed surpassed the previous DASUNG Turbo limits, exceeding the frame rate of standard movies and enabling ePaper’s first truly smooth video-level dynamic performance.
In the following months, Dasung applied this new technology to multiple ePaper display sizes, including 10.3-inch and 13.3-inch models, achieving a maximum refresh rate of 60 frames per second—historically matching LCDs in dynamic refresh. By optimizing e-ink droplet movement paths and cyclically calculating droplet motion times, the new technology fundamentally solves challenges like ultra-high-speed refresh, screen protection, and afterimage control. This breakthrough is revolutionary: it may finally bring ePaper into the mainstream display arena, combining its eye-protective, eco-friendly, low-power advantages with high-speed display capabilities. Users can now experience dynamic images in natural light akin to the "Prophet Daily" in *Harry Potter*—开辟 (opening) a new track for the display industry that balances paper-like presentation with technological advancement.
