According to a press announcement Toshiaki Arai, Chief Technologist of JOLED, recently gave an invited presentation on Innovative Technologies for OLED Display Manufacturing at AMFPD2018 – The 25th International Workshop on Active-Matrix Flat Panel Displays and Devices – held in Kyoto.
In the presentation Toshiaki Arai outlined JOLED's technological competence in printing OLED panels and oxide TFT technologies for backplanes.
The press release provided shows JOLED's taking a two-step approach to commercialising printed OLED panels, along with possible target panel sizes and applications. Step-1 shows the company targeting small-medium size panels 10-inch to 40-inch for monitors, large tables, and signage with varying pixel resolutions of 100ppi to 400ppi. In step-2 the company will target 50-inch and above with resolutions of 100ppi to 300ppi for TV and signage applications.
No timeline for the commercialisation of printed large area OLED panels were given.
Sources: "Innovative Technologies for OLED Display Manufacturing (Invited), T. Arai, JOLED., Japan"