“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.”
