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Technical Product Presentation Anapurna MV

Application & Services Inkjet

Anapurna MV – Technical Specification – March 20092

• Robust Engineered - Professional – Hybrid UV Wide Format Printer

• Affordable capital investment

• Perfect fit for Sign Shops, Photo Labs and Mid Size Graphic Screen printers, capable of producing photorealistic output

• High quality poster output against 12 m²/h without varnishing

• Good solids and signs in 8 pass printing mode

• Varnish finishing possible – full coverage or spot – to increase the value of the printed output at half of the production speed

• Gloss varnish to enhance cosmetic appearance and print durability on Rigids as well as on Flexible (Sheet) substrates

• For safety, Anapurna MV requires permanent operator attendance

• Applications• Banners, Posters, Signage (Traffic, industrial info, ...), Exhibit graphics, POP,

Mock-ups, Backlit, Frontlit, Self adhesives (Labels, ...), ....

• Niche application: DVD print, wood, art reproductions, personalized object printing (mouse mats, ...), Party gadgets (beer mats, ...), Architectural and Interior decoration, Ceramics printing, .......

:Anapurna MV Features & Positioning


:Anapurna MV – System specifications

• Working conditions• Size of the engine

• 370 x 155 x 160cm

• Weight: 980kg

• Working space• Single “Rigid Table”

5,5 x 5,5m

• Dual “Rigid Table” 5,5 x 8m

1.25m

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• Power specifications• Single phase

• Voltage: 230V (± 10%)

• Max amp: 32A

• 50 – 60Hz

• Air Pressure specifications• Dry and Oil-free compressed air

• Minimum air pressure of 6 bar (4-8 kgf/m²) with minimum flow of 8l/min

• Capacity shall be over 3 to 5 HP (horsepower)• 3 HP – Duty cycle of 100%

• 5 HP – Duty cycle of 80%

• Preferable stand-alone compressor• Minimum storage tank of 75 liter


:Anapurna MV - System specifications

• Working conditions• Cold to Standby: 10 minutes

• Standby to “Ready to Print”: 1,5 minutes

• Engine operating conditions• For optimal Quality/Throughput

• Room temperature: 22°C

• Room humidity: 40-50% RH

• Allowed/preferred “Temperature/Humidity” latitude• Room temperature: 18-26°C

• Room humidity: 35-70% RH

Attention - Ideal media/ink operating condition:

Room temperature: 22°C, ± 2°C / Room humidity: 50-55% RH


:Anapurna MV - System specifications

• Connectivity• Driven by stand alone “Wasatch SoftRIP Agfa edition”

• 2 RTL files, color and varnish, locally saved on PC

• RTL from RIP to engine by network using the “Agfa RIP”

• Wasatch SoftRIP configuration• Min.: Pentium 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, WindowsXP or Vista

• Preferred Pentium 3 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 300GB HD, Windows XP or Vista

• Safety• 2 emergency stops

• 4 optical sensors to prevent unwanted contact with moving parts such as moving print shuttle

• Approvals• CE, FCC & ROHS



• Printing head - Color• 6 Konica-Minolta KM512MN

• Greyscale printing head, used as binary

• Shared Wall - 3 cycle

• Nr of Jets: 512 - 2 rows of 256 nozzles

• Nozzle spacing: 70,5 µm

• Resolution: 360 npi (2*180 npi)

• Dropvolume: 14 pl - Nozzle Diameter: 27µ



• Printing head - Varnish• 2 Konica-Minolta KM512LN

• Binary head

• Shared Wall - 3 cycle

• Nr of Jets: 512 - 2 rows of 256 nozzles

• Nozzle spacing: 70,5 µm

• Resolution: 360 npi (2*180 npi)

• Dropvolume: 42 pl - Nozzle Diameter: 39µ

• UV curing• 2 Iron-doped UV lamps

• With intensity setting “Full” or “Half”

• Automated change of position when printing varnish layer



• UV curing• 2 Iron-doped UV lamps

• With intensity setting “Full” or “Half”

• Expected total life time of a UV lamp bulb: 1000h• Total lifetime = bulb giving light (UV + visible + IR)

• After some time (aging) : emission power is degrading

• At some moment : the UV emission is lower than the required emission power for optimal curing of the ink

• By experience, the usefull life time with enough power to cure the ink, is approximately 500 hours when bulb is continuously ON.

• Every switch OFF/ON takes away approximately 15 minutes of the bulb life time.

• Practically this comes down to a usefull lifetime of around 3 months at a heavy use of the engine (40 hours a week).


:Anapurna MV – System setup

• UV Curable Ink • Color

- Agfa UV Curable :Anapurna M UV Ink• Cyan / Magenta / Yellow / Black / Light Cyan / Light Magenta

and Flushing Solution

• Varnisch Agfa :Anapurna MV varnish

• Available in 1L bottle

• Shelf life for colors 18 months, varnish up to 24 months

• Supply and management• Main Ink-tank: 1600ml

• Sub Ink-tank: 35ml

• Automatic refill system


Agfa’s “Quality Levels definition”

• Production Mode• Limited banding and small print artifacts are allowed

• Should not be visible at viewing distance of 5m

• Poster• Limited banding and small print artifacts are allowed

• Should not be visible at a distance of 1.5m

• Vector-Sign

• No banding and print artefacts when viewed at a distance of 1m (low level of graininess allowed, predominantly applicable to colour solids)

• Photo/Vector-Sign

• Almost perfect: no banding, no print artifacts, no visible grain when viewed at a distance of less then 0,5m


• Image quality strongly dependent on type of substrate and Image content• Head gap setting

• Head gap = distance nozzle plate to substrate, automatically measured by mechanical switch

• The smaller the gap the sharper the print will be But ... - Heat sensitive media will cause problems, head crashes - Uneven substrates will cause problems, head crashes

• Higher gap settings will prevent head crashes But ... - Too high head gap will cause unwanted inkspray, results in unsharp prints

• Preferred Head gap setting on :Anapurna MV - 1,3mm

• Extra recommend head gap settings for:– High Quality prints on non-heat sensitive media - 1,1mm

– All heat sensitive media, whatever printmode used – 1,5mm

– Production mode – 1,5mm

* Other Head gaps require other alignments

:Anapurna MV – Image Quality vs. Productivity


• Image quality strongly dependent on type of substrate and Image content• Print shuttle speed

• Minimum: 0.48m/sec - Maximum: 0.84m/sec

• Adjustable in 10 steps, recommended optimum at step 7 = 0.72m/sec

• Printing direction, Uni- vs. Bi-Directional printing• Production (=printing speed) obtained by printing Bi-Directional

But ...• Sharp text will always obtained by printing in Uni-Directional

– Better results in 4pass uni then 8pass bi

• Heat sensitive media easier to be print in Uni-Directional– The way back without printing gives the substrate the time to cool down

• Flat tints, vector images better to be print in Uni-Directional– To avoid some unwanted Bi-Directional banding



• Image quality strongly dependent on type of substrate and Image content• Line and Text Qualitiy

• Up to 0,1 point horizontal and vertical lines in all colors

• Up to 4 point positive and 6 point negative text

• “Front to Back” and “Sheet to Sheet” registration• Within 1mm

• UV Power setting• Half UV Power setting can be very helpful for Heat sensitive media

But ...

• Be aware that some of those heat sensitive media need enough UV power to assure an adequate ink adhesion

– Fluted display – polypropylene better be printed with full UV Power, Uni-Directional printing mode with Head gap of 1,5mm




• Quality/Productivity color

• Production

• Poster

• Vector

• Photo

• Maximum speed (@ shuttle speed 10)• 720*720 – Q4 pass: 14m²/hour

• 720*1440 – Q8 pass: 7m²/hour

} 720*720 – Q4 pass Uni: 6m²/hour – BiDirectional: 12m²/hour

} 720*1440 – Q8 pass

Uni: 4m²/hour – BiDirectional: 6m²/hour

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• Quality/Productivity when printing varnish

• Color printed first,using customer choosen quality setting

• Once color is printed, substrate automatically pulled back and position of UV lamphouses automatically changed

• Varnish always printed in 4pass bi-directional mode

• Production

• Poster

• Vector

• Photo

} 720*720 – Q4 pass – up to 6m²/hour

} 720*1440 – Q8 pass – up to 4m²/hourDependent on

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• Media• Minimum printable substrate

• A3, printed as landscape – 42 x 29,7cm

• Flexible media - Roll-to-roll• All printable flexible media, except “mesh” without liner

• Maximum width: Media size: 158cm Printable size: 158cm – Max printable sized reduced to 152cm

when Borderless printing is used

• Minimum width: 42cm

• Media roll specifications:– Max roll weight: 50kg

– Max roll diameter: 36cm

– Support for 3” core



• Media• Rigid

• Maximum width: Media size: 158cm Printable size: 158cm – Max printable sized reduced to 152cm

when Borderless printing is used

• Minimum width: 42cm

– Extra “sub rollers” to support small media

• Maximum length:

– Supported by 1 rigid roller table (default): 150cm

– Supported by 2 rigid roller tables (2nd table as option): 250cm

• Minimum thickness: 1mm

• Maximum thickness: 45mm

• Maximum weight: 10kg/m² on printing table

• Dual board loading possible when using “registration blocks”



• Media and print• Media positioning:

• Automated “Media positioning bar” to align rigids

• Side guiders

• Media transport• Compartmental (2) vacuum table with

separate adjustable vacuum

• Belt driven Media transport



• Media transport specifications• Flexible media:

Max skew of 5mm on 10m printing length

• Rigid media: Max skew of 2mm on 1,5m (Default - one rigid roller table) Max skew of 3mm on 2,5m (Optional, 2 rigid roller tables)

• Image squareness angle of 2mm on 1,6m

• Colour to colour registration: maximum 245µm total variance in both dimensions when measuring the registration between two colours over the full width of the belt



• Media and print• Remove dust from substrate

• Dust is one of the biggest issues when printing varnish

• Ideally, printing varnish should be done in a clean environment

• In all cases: Dust need to be removed for sure before printing color (on the unprinted substrate), this can be very easily done by using the “clean roller” system (roll and sticky paper)



• Agfa “Color Gamut Definition”

• Goal, “ISO 12647-5 Standard - Gamut class 2” color gamut for primary colors

• All Image configurations mapped to this ISO Standard

• When feasible, wide gamut Image configurations available


:Anapurna MV – Color Gamut on MetaMark MD5

Q8P

Q4P

ISO


:Anapurna MV – Agfa Image configurations

• Standard Agfa :Anapurna MV Image configurations available on “Agfa ftp” site


:Anapurna MV – Ink Consumption

• Q4P• On standard page (Agfa UV testpage): 7ml/m2

• On Full size solids, secondary color (Solid Blue): 12ml/m2

• Q8P Normal use • On standard page (Agfa UV testpage): 8ml/m2


• Q8P Heavy usage (Wide Gamut Profile)• On standard page (Agfa UV testpage): 9ml/m2


• Varnish• Full Page coverage: 30ml/m2

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:Anapurna MV – Maintenance

• Several maintenance cycles are defined by Agfa, please check the Manual.

• Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Six Monthly maintenance• Checks on IQ and printing system

• Short, Weekend and Long stand still maintenance• Preparations to prevent issues when restarting printing engine

• Most of the maintenance procedures can be done by operator

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