“The quality of this panel is amazing. I accidentally bought the Inky Frame beforehand and the Impression blows it out of the water. The quality of the image is unreal. It’s a little duller than a real photograph but from more than a foot away, you can scarcely tell the difference.”
“Very fast refresh rate ~15s
Vibrant colors
High resolution
Easy to use
The only "issue" is that the screen only supports a low amount of colors. So you end up with a lot of dots when there is a color transition. Up to you if you care about that.”
“Works great, display speed is as advertised (in the 10s range) which for my use-case is quite acceptable. It does indeed fit perfectly in the 13x18cm Rödalm IKEA picture frame.”
“absolutely stunning e-ink paper display and when used with Pi zero 2 W and something like https://github.com/fatihak/InkyPi is piece of cake to make work. the only con is the price, but that hurts only once ;-)”
“Multi-color e-inks have a number of drawbacks (long update-times, muted colors), but if you can live with them, they are great. The 2025 version has both a much shorter update-time, and has nice saturated colors. So there are reasons less why not to buy. The price-tag is still high, but that is not specific to Pimoroni.
Build quality is good and the display is no longer borderless (the pcb is now a bit larger than the display and has mounting holes). So it is much simpler to attach the display to a frame compared with the pre-2025 versions.
What is still missing: a ready to use power-management solution for the Pi that is supposed to drive the display. It would make a nice bundle that would certainly sell well.”
“Inky Impression Spectra 7.3 paired with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Currently using inky-Pi but looking to code my own solution soon (for fun)
I initially thought it broken, but worked with the amazing Pimoroni Support team, the resolution was to recreate the SD, and follow VERY CAREFULLY the instructions in the readme.md file for the wink display.”
