Other the past 10 years, Popims LensPrinter team has collected a panel of essential technologies in the field of animations and 3D printing.

To stay ahead in this market in perpetual evolution, our teams continues investing time and money into research and development around lens printing applications. These technologies being about using different kind of varnishes and transparent inks to conduct and disseminate light.

These are some samples of the products that could be produced by our licensees in the following months:

• Bidirectional auto-stereoscopy for 3D TV

The same screen, with its very specific and complex lenticular device, produces the 3D effect in the landscape and in the portrait modes. You just need to turn the device 90° and it switches from one mode to the other.

In one mode, you get a left image and a right image, and in the other you get the same or up to 4 different images, which makes it more comfortable when the width of the screen is more than 15cm (or 6 inches).
Download the information about this new technology here.

• Projection and retro-projection screens with high contrasts.

Popims projection screens will cover number of walls at home, in hotels and in shops.
Cell phones and other electronic devices will soon be able to project your images and videos on a white wall.  Our screens enhance the efficiency of projection, by sending back the projected light in the appropriate direction. Lenses are spherical or slightly elongated so that the light is sent back not as a regular cone but as a distorted one, which is wider and fits better the location of spectators.
As LensPrinter printing uses mostly flexo or screenprinting techniques, this product is much more economical thanthose of the prior art.
It will be delivered as standard sheets of all sizes, that can also be ready to stick.rior
Popims retro-projection screens are using Popims LensPrinter asymmetrical technologies.
They consist in double lenticular arrays that let the light go through the surface, keeping the appropriate direction, while the sun light that might diminish the contrast is not reflected. These screens will enable retro-projection even in the sunlight.

• Popims reflective media and films.

Popims reflective media is using basic LensPrinter technologies. The product is a lenticular transparent sheet with a white back. It can be printed with all conventional UV techniques.
Popims reflective film can to be stuck on any printed material to make it reflective.
In both cases microlenses concentrate the light and send it back to the spectator, in a predetermined area around the light source.
As LensPrinter printing uses mostly flexo or screenprinting techniques, this product is also much more economical thanthose of the prior art.
It will be delivered as standard sheets of all sizes, that can also be ready to stick.

• Optical fibers and other components for optoelectronics

LensPrinter printed fibres are optical guides produced by printing techniques. Advantages are low cost, versatility and good efficiency.
LensPrinter opto-electronic boards are the equivalent of electronic circuit boards with a major difference: they drive not only electrons but also photons.
They may well be the future of computers and fibre networks.
LensPrinter switches is also an application of the LensPrinter principles, with great applications such as programmable active keyboards.
LensPrinter light connectors connect LensPrinter printed fibres and/or LensPrinter optoelectronic boards. It's an injection molded component that can be implemented on LensPrinter optoelectronic boards.

• LensPrinter Natural Lighting

This consists in using the light received from any source like the sun, and to drive it through buildings with LensPrinter Printed Fibres so that it is displayed by lighting equipments.

Applications are lighting articles that do not use electricity, ane especially thin luminescent sheets to cover walls and ceilings.

Popims team also has an important research activity in the domains of light management and of optics.

Websites dedicated to these subjects are Popims Optics and Popims Light