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Agfa :Anapurna and Mutoh Cobra 100 UV
The Agfa :Anapurna 100 and Mutoh Cobra 100UV were shown behind closed doors at FESPA in Munich in June. You got about 12 minutes alongside the printer.
Agfa and Mutoh were very brave to show such an early prototype. Neither printer has appeared at any subsequent trade show, neither in Germany nor in the US. Indeed the word on the street is that the printer is delayed, to the point that Agfa had to come out with new models: Agfa :Anapurna X and Anapurna XL.
Everything about the Agfa :Anapurna 100 and Mutoh Cobra 100UV appear impressive. But it has taken Zund two years to get their Zund UVjet 250 up and running and it still does not work; it had to be withdrawn for another 6 months development. The challenge for both Agfa and Mutoh is that everything on the printer is new and unique: the flush-brush head cleaning system, the walking floor dynamic feeding system, the ink. Everything is novel.
This is a painful learning experience. Indeed the only complex UV printer that functions is the L&P Virtu. The best example of how simplicity may be the best way to design a well-functioning UV printer comes from the ColorSpan UVR and UVX.
The key question for screen printing companies, photo labs, sign shops and large digital printing companies is: do we wait for the Agfa or Mutoh, or do we buy a sure-thing now?
FLAAR Reports on UV-Curable Printers cover more than 45 flatbed printers, click on each link and learn more about it: Quick List of FLAAR UV Flatbed reports; longer Preview of FLAAR UV-cured inkjet flatbed reports.
Since we have spent 5 days with the Gandinnovations Jeti UV printer, since we have spent another 5 days in the demo room of Raster Printers, since we have undertaken site-visit case studies of two ColorSpan UVR printers in print shops, we know these printers inside out, and can report on them.
So if you wish to do homework, and compare each sure-thing, we have FLAAR Reports on every one of the UV printers that you should compare and contrast when thinking of the Agfa Anapurna 100 and Mutoh Cobra 100UV: namely the ColorSpan or Zund 215 at entry level, the Gandinnovations JETi or the Durst Rho 600, Vutek, or Inca at the high end.
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