The present invention is directed to driving waveforms and a driving method for an electrophoretic display. The method and waveforms have the advantage that the changes in the driving voltages due to the shift are minimized. In addition, the overall driving time for the waveforms is also shortened due to the shortened driving frames. There are no additional data points required as the number of the driving frames remains the same. Therefore, the power consumption is nearly identical with the waveform having driving frames of a fixed frame time.