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The price point is too painful for home use unless you place your frame high above inaccessible without ladders. It should be used for billboard advertising.

The price point is too painful for home use unless you place your frame high above inaccessible without ladders. It should be used for billboard advertising. You don't even need that many PPI pixels per square inch because of how high above it is, and it would save ginormous bucks on printing canvases and technicians changing the ad. Not to mention, timed advertising.

hansonkd 2y ago
> The price point is too painful for home use unless you place your frame high above inaccessible without ladders. When i read this comment i had to go look at the product because i was expecting 10-20k. Looks very reasonable to me. The most expensive is only $2500? and the cheapest only $600? Seems super inline with what I would expect to pay for art.
- jolmg 2y ago
  You're not paying for art. You're paying for paper you can later display art on. Also, with e.g. an oil painting on canvas, the cost of producing that is the time of the artist to paint it by hand. I don't think 10-20K is anywhere reasonable for e.g. a mass-produced inkjet-printed thing. Likewise 10-20K for a PNG file would be even more insane.
bitdivision 2y ago
The displays seem to be available for around $250 https://www.waveshare.com/product/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-plus-e.htm https://www.waveshare.com/product/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-plus-...
- mariusandra 2y ago
  $250 is just part of the price. I just went through the process and made this for myself: https://www.printables.com/model/1189455-waveshare-133e-6-color-e-ink-spectra-parametric-ca https://www.printables.com/model/1189455-waveshare-133e-6-co... The total price was around $420. This includes shipping, taxes (to Belgium), a pi zero w2, a sd card, and printing a case.
  - bitdivision 2y ago
    It's never as cheap as you think is it! I think fortunately I have most of the other bits lying around. Was planning on putting it in a wooden frame with a matte. Are you happy with the quality?
    - mariusandra 2y ago
      Can't really complain cause there's nothing better right now. Compared to the previous gen e-ink (7-color ACeP), the contrast and the colors are so much better. I also have a bunch of 3-color (black/white/red) panels - video and more pictures on https://frameos.net/ https://frameos.net/ ) - and the contrast is similar, but the colors are obviously limited. So yeah, I'm definitely happy.

hansonkd 2y ago

> The price point is too painful for home use unless you place your frame high above inaccessible without ladders. When i read this comment i had to go look at the product because i was expecting 10-20k. Looks very reasonable to me. The most expensive is only $2500? and the cheapest only $600? Seems super inline with what I would expect to pay for art.

jolmg 2y ago
You're not paying for art. You're paying for paper you can later display art on. Also, with e.g. an oil painting on canvas, the cost of producing that is the time of the artist to paint it by hand. I don't think 10-20K is anywhere reasonable for e.g. a mass-produced inkjet-printed thing. Likewise 10-20K for a PNG file would be even more insane.

bitdivision 2y ago

The displays seem to be available for around $250 https://www.waveshare.com/product/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-plus-e.htm https://www.waveshare.com/product/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-plus-...

mariusandra 2y ago
$250 is just part of the price. I just went through the process and made this for myself: https://www.printables.com/model/1189455-waveshare-133e-6-color-e-ink-spectra-parametric-ca https://www.printables.com/model/1189455-waveshare-133e-6-co... The total price was around $420. This includes shipping, taxes (to Belgium), a pi zero w2, a sd card, and printing a case.
- bitdivision 2y ago
  It's never as cheap as you think is it! I think fortunately I have most of the other bits lying around. Was planning on putting it in a wooden frame with a matte. Are you happy with the quality?
  - mariusandra 2y ago
    Can't really complain cause there's nothing better right now. Compared to the previous gen e-ink (7-color ACeP), the contrast and the colors are so much better. I also have a bunch of 3-color (black/white/red) panels - video and more pictures on https://frameos.net/ https://frameos.net/ ) - and the contrast is similar, but the colors are obviously limited. So yeah, I'm definitely happy.