E-paper · E-MANAGER
E-paper display: signage that goes where electricity doesn’t
A poster you change remotely, with no cable or socket.
Digital ink only uses power when the image changes: between two updates, nothing. EMITY is the first French software publisher to manage these displays, from the same platform as your LCD screens.
Digital ink
E-paper displays information
where electricity doesn’t reach.
A CSR argument, but above all a practical answer: where running a cable costs more than the screen itself, digital ink solves the problem.
Temporary or changing information, with no electrical installation
Digital ink uses a tiny amount of energy only when the display changes. Between two updates, nothing: the screen lasts at least 5 years on its own power supply.
EMITY is the first French software publisher to support these displays, and manages them from the same platform as the others.
- Reconfigurable colour display, updated remotely like a standard screen
- At least 5 years of battery life (BLE), with no visit on site
- Excellent readability in bright light, even in full sunlight
- Works with the modules for room booking, legal notices and visitor reception
- Compatible with SoluM, Samsung and Philips
E-paper in plain terms
What exactly is e-paper?
A fair place to start: these screens look neither like a poster nor like a television screen.
E-paper (or digital ink, e-ink) is a screen that works by reflecting light, like a printed sheet of paper. It has no backlight: no flicker, no eye strain, no glow in a dark room.
Its particularity comes down to this: once the image is displayed, it stays on screen without consuming any electricity. Power is only needed at the moment the content changes — a few seconds, once or twice a day in most uses. Hence a battery life counted in years, not in hours.
In other words: e-paper takes the best of both worlds. The calm, readable rendering of paper, the flexibility of digital.
Our difference
The first French software company to manage e-paper screens
Many manufacturers offer digital ink screens. Few software platforms can manage them alongside the rest of your fleet.
At EMITY, e-paper is not a separate range: it is one more type of screen in E-MANAGER, the web platform that already centralizes your LCD screens, your totems and your video walls. One interface, one training session, one point of contact.
In practice, that changes two things. You do not have to juggle between the label manufacturer’s tool and your digital signage tool. And the day you add another screen brand, you do not change platform.
- ✓Your e-paper and LCD screens in the same dashboard
- ✓Multi-manufacturer compatibility: SoluM, Samsung and Philips
- ✓The same content, the same screen groups, the same access rights
- ✓A fleet that goes from 1 to 1,000 screens without changing tools
E-paper in context
Where running a cable
was never an option.
Six situations where digital ink does what a standard panel can’t.
The most widespread use case
The electronic shelf label is e-paper
If you are looking for an « electronic label » or a « shelf-edge label », what you are really looking for is a small e-paper screen. Here is what sets them apart.
An electronic shelf label (also known as an ESL, for electronic shelf label) is an e-paper screen of 2 to 7 inches, clipped onto the shelf rail. It shows a price, a reference, a barcode, a promotional message — and is updated from the same interface as your large screens.
The point is not only to avoid printing. Above all, the price shown on the shelf always stays consistent with your checkout system: no more gap between the label that was forgotten and the price actually charged.
The same principle applies outside retail: labelling locations in a warehouse, identifying equipment, marking bins in a workshop.
- ✓From 2 inches (shelf) to 32 inches (signage)
- ✓Single or double sided, casings in various shades
- ✓A whole aisle updated in a single operation
How it works
Three steps, from E-MANAGER
No technical skills required: if you know how to use a browser, you know how to manage an e-paper screen.
1. You connect
The screen is activated through the protocol suited to its manufacturer. E-MANAGER detects the newcomer — no local installation, no driver to configure.
2. You create
You compose your visual in the drag-and-drop editor, or start from a ready-made template. Canva and Adobe Express are integrated if your designs already live there.
3. You publish
You send the content to one screen, a group or the whole fleet. The update goes out remotely: the screen refreshes in a few seconds, then goes back to sleep.
The comparison
E-paper, LCD screen or paper poster: what changes
All three display information. They behave nothing alike from day to day.
| Criterion | E-paper screen | LCD screen | Paper poster |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power consumption | Very low, only when the image changes | Continuous power supply | Depends on how the medium is lit |
| Battery life | Up to several years | Mains power required | Not applicable |
| Cost of an update | A few seconds, remotely | A few seconds, remotely | Printing, finishing and putting it up again |
| Readability in full sunlight | Excellent, like paper | Reduced by reflections | Good |
| Cabling constraint | No permanent connection | Power and network required | Not applicable |
| Animated content (video) | No: still images | Yes | No |
Orders of magnitude observed on the ranges we manage; exact values depend on the model and on how often it is updated.
E-paper does not replace LCD everywhere: as soon as you need video or animation, the backlit screen remains the right tool. Digital ink takes over where the content changes rarely and where restraint matters.
The hardware
SoluM and Samsung, a single control console
EMITY is compatible with the main global e-paper screen references. Whichever manufacturer you choose, everything is managed from E-MANAGER.
Do you already have a fleet of screens from another brand? Our distribution partners look into taking it over rather than replacing it.
In the offer
What you need, on the software side as on the hardware side
E-paper is not a separate product: it is a capability of the E-MANAGER platform. Here are the building blocks involved.
E-MANAGER
The web platform that centralizes your screens, your content and your scheduling. This is where the whole fleet is managed, e-paper included.
Excellence plan
The subscription that unlocks the e-paper module, all of the widgets, E-CLICK interactive display and single sign-on (SSO).
The e-paper screens
Supplied by SoluM or Samsung depending on the formats chosen, with their communication gateway. Our distribution partners integrate them on site.
Your content
Your existing visuals, or templates composed in the editor. One visual can be adapted to several screen formats without being redone.
Your calculator
Estimate what e-paper saves you
Enter your fleet parameters: the calculation compares your current printing budget with the cost of e-paper equipment. An indicative estimate, refined with you afterwards.
In the EMITY suite
E-paper works
with the other modules.
Room booking, visitor reception, legal notices: digital ink also powers the other experiences, from the same E-MANAGER account.
About us
A platform already in service, not a prototype
+7 000connected screens
+1 000customer accounts
+130distribution partners
+20countries
EMITY is a French software company, based in Montpellier and Paris since 2018, and distributed by a network of certified resellers in France and Europe.
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