A bi-stable electronic display driving technique drives an image refresh on a bi-stable electronic display, such as an electrophoretic display, using a driving integrated circuit with a single and limited in size image buffer, in a manner that does not require a simultaneous blanking or erasing of the display and in a manner that operates to drive the pixel elements of the display to their final value associated with the new image more quickly during an image refresh cycle. This technique results in an image refresh that is of higher quality and that is more pleasing to the eye while still using a driving integrated circuit with limited memory and processing power.