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Dilli 1606uv Neo Titan flatbed printer

Dilli (in Korea, a company associated with D.G.I.) makes a diverse variety of UV-cured inkjet printers. Their main printer models have been shown for many years. This is now rebranded by Agfa as the Agfa :Anapurna L and XL (and also by Mutoh, though Mutoh rarely shows any UV-cured flatbeds).

A combo printer is one with a transport belt; a hybrid UV printer is one with a platen, grit rollers and pinch rollers.

But Dilli also makes some smaller and more unusual models, which are rarely seen. The Dilli Neo Jupiter was shown at SGIA 2006; their Dilli Neo Venus has not yet been seen in the US. Now (at ISA 2007), their Dilli 1606 Titan appeared in the Dilli booth and the same printer with different colors also in the Agfa booth.

Dilli 1606uv Neo Titan flatbed printer at ISA 2007.

Agfa rebrands this new model of Dilli printer as the :Anapurna M

At first Agfa showed nary an image of this new UV flatbed combo printer on their web site. But it is clearly a Dilli (who else has the vibrant turquoise combo belt). But even without the give-away belt, Agfa is not a manufacturer or patent holder of wide-format inkjet printers (other than their UV ink and experiment with eco-solvent inks). Agfa bought the :Dotrix technology from another company.

Since access to documentation from Agfa has been uneven, I appreciate the access to this Dilli printer through ACCI, who now sells the Dilli original for $5000 less than the Agfa version.

The new FLAAR Report discusses both the Agfa :Anapurna M and the Dilli Neo Titan 1606uv together, and indicates their similarities and differences, pros and cons.

The Dilli 1606uv Neo Titan flatbed printer showing some samples at SGIA 2008.

Sample printed by the Dilli 1606uv Neo Titan at Shanghai 2008.

 

Take-up table, Dilli 1606 Neo Titan. Graph Expo, 2007.

Has Agfa dropped all its mild-solvent/eco-solvent wide-format printers?

While on the subject of Agfa’s interest in being a major player in market segment in the world of wide-format printers, I could not find any of the former Agfa Grand Sherpa Universal rebadged Mutoh printers on the Agfa web site the week before ISA (April 2007). I have not looked at the Agfa site in over a year, so they could have disappeared long before.

But why does a company drop so much prior investment (or if they are still offering them, why are they so hard to find on the Agfa web site?). The water-based Agfa proofing printers are so buried it took four attempts to find them before I located them. These are capably manufactured by Mutoh.

 

 

First posted September 17, 2007.