Mutoh Cobra S65UV and Mutoh Cobra S100uv
At FESPA 2005 (Munich, in the summer), both Mutoh and Agfa heralded a spectacular engineering achievement, a truly unique UV printer, the Mutoh Cobra 100 and Agfa :Anapurna 100. Both are the same printer, just different colors, logos, and model designations. Unfortunately this printer was so unique that it will take another year or so to make all the neat aspects work in unison. When it appears it will reportedly be called the Agfa :Anapurna XXL.
If you would like to know what to expect from this unusual technology, the FLAAR Reports on the Agfa :Anapurna 100 is the only outside independent discussion of this printer that is not a PR release.
Since the original design is stalled, and as in the meantime Agfa had already developed its own special UV-curable ink, in order to have printers use their ink, Agfa and Mutoh cooperated by having another company contract-manufacture their substitute printers in Asia.
The Mutoh Europe version is the Mutoh Cobra S65UV and Mutoh Cobra S100uv. The Agfa version is their Agfa :Anapurna L and XL.
A new FLAAR Reports is being issued this month to show the Agfa :Anapurna L and XL (and thereby the Mutoh Cobra S65uv and Mutoh Cobra S100uv) with side-by side photographs comparing it with the original printer that is manufactured in Korea. In other words, we provide a complete evaluation of the Korean printer that is rebadged, with a nice new ink, as the Mutoh Cobra S65uv and Mutoh Cobra S100uv. The design of the sheet metal is also new, and very well done, as you would expect of European and Japanese designers.
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