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Technical Product Presentation Anapurna M Application & Services Inkjet
:ANAPURNA M Features & Positioning • 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 • Good solids and signs in 8 pass printing mode • For safety, Anapurna M 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, ....... 2
Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M – Specifications • Working conditions • Size of the engine • 357 x 155 x 160cm • Weight: 980kg
• Working space 1.25m
5,5 m
• Single “Rigid Table” 5,5 x 5,5m • Dual “Rigid Table” 5,5 x 8m
1.25m
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Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M – Specifications • 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 4
Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M - 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 5
Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M - System specifications • Connectivity • Driven by stand alone “Wasatch SoftRIP Agfa edition” • RTL send directly to engine by “streaming driver”
• Wasatch SoftRIP configuration • Minimum: Pentium 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 80 GB HD, WindowsXP or Vista • Preferred Pentium 3 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 300 GB 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 6
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:Anapurna M – Specifications • Printing head • • • • • • •
6 Konica-Minolta 512KM 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
• UV curing • 2 Iron-doped UV lamps • With intensity setting “Full” or “Half”
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Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M – Specifications • 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).
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:Anapurna M – System setup • UV Curable Ink • Agfa UV Curable :Anapurna M UV Ink • Cyan / Magenta / Yellow / Black / Light Cyan / Light Magenta and Flushing solution
• Available in 1L bottle • Shelf life for colors: 18 months, flushing up to 24 months • Supply and management • Main Ink-tank: 1600ml • Sub Ink-tank: 35ml • Automatic refill system
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Agfa’ Agfa’s “Quality Levels definition” 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
• VectorVector-Sign • No banding and print artefacts when viewed at a distance of 1m (low level of graininess allowed, predominantly applicable to colour solids)
• Photo/VectorPhoto/Vector-Sign • Almost perfect: no banding, no print artifacts, no visible grain when viewed at a distance of less then 0,5m 10
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:Anapurna M – Image Quality vs. Productivity • 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 M - 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 11
Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M – 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
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:Anapurna M – Image Quality vs. Productivity • 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
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:Anapurna M – System setup • Quality/Productivity
n nd o t • Production 720*720 – Q4 passen te a d tra t n s ten 12m²/hour Uni: 6m²/hourep–e BiDirectional: • Poster b D f su con o ge e • Vector 720*1440 –ypQ8 pass a t m I • Photo
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Uni: 4m²/hour – BiDirectional: 6m²/hour
• Maximum speed (@ shuttle speed 10) • 720*720 – Q4 pass: 14m²/hour • 720*1440 – Q8 pass: 7m²/hour
• Workload • Maximum recommended workload of 6h/day with max non-stop printing time of 1h
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:Anapurna M – System setup • 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: 160cm Printable size: 158cm – Max printable sized reduced to 152cm when Borderless printing is used • Minimum width: 42cm • Media roll specifications: – – –
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Max roll weight: 50kg Max roll diameter: 36cm Support for 3” core
Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M – System setup • Media • Rigid • Maximum width: Media size: 160cm 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: – –
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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” Anapurna M – Technical Specification – November 2008
:Anapurna M – System setup • 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
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:Anapurna M – System setup • 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
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:Anapurna M – System setup • 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
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:Anapurna M – Color Gamut on MetaMark MD5 ISO Q8P Q4P
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:Anapurna M – Agfa Image configurations • Standard Agfa :Anapurna M Image configurations available on “Agfa ftp” site
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:Anapurna M – 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 • On Full size solids, secondary color (Solid Blue): 17ml/m2
• Q8P Heavy usage (Wide Gamut Profile) • On standard page (Agfa UV testpage): 9ml/m2 • On Full size solids, secondary color (Solid Blue): 22ml/m2
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• 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
T: 01932 568555
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