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Anapurna Mw – Technical Specification – October 20092
:Anapurna MW - Features & Positioning
• Robust Engineered, Professional, Hybrid UV Wide Format Printer
• Affordable capital investment
• White ink printing possible – Pre-White within same printrun or Post-White as second printrun– to address all kind of decoration applications on glass, plexi, opaque substrates etc...
• Perfect fit for Sign Shops, Photo Labs and Mid Size Graphic Screen printers, capable of producing photorealistic output
• High quality poster output against 6-11m²/h (65-118 ft²/h)
• Perfect solids and signs in 8 pass printing mode
• For safety, Anapurna MW 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 Mw – Technical Specification – October 20093
:Anapurna MW – System specifications
• Working conditions• Size of the engine
• 362 x 154 x 160 cm (142,52” x 60,63” x 63”)
• Weight: 980kg
• Working space• Single “Rigid Table”
5,5 x 5,5 m
• Dual “Rigid Table”5,5 x 8 m
1.25m
1.25m
5,5
m
Anapurna Mw – Technical Specification – October 20094
:Anapurna MW – System specifications
• Power specifications• Triple phase
• Voltage: 3 x 380 V + N (star) and 3 x 220 V (delta), configurable at installation
• Max amp: 3 x 30 A
• 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• Industrial type (3 cylinders)
• Capable of running continuously (24/24) with 80% duty cycle
• Minimum storage tank of 75 liter
Anapurna Mw – Technical Specification – October 20095
:Anapurna MW - System specifications
• Working conditions• Cold to Standby: 15 minutes
• Standby to “Ready to Print”: 3 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 Mw – Technical Specification – October 20096
:Anapurna Mw - System specifications
• Connectivity• Driven by stand alone “Wasatch SoftRIP Agfa edition”
• Wasatch SoftRIP version Always check “Agfa ftp” for latest release SoftRIP version and driver
• Today still working with Beta version of Wasatch driver
– Special beta codes requested through Agfa HQ
• 2 RTL files, color and white, locally saved on PC
• Wasatch SoftRIP PC platform configuration• Preferred:
Pentium 3 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, >300GB HD, Windows XP
• Windows 7 to be tested
Anapurna Mw – Technical Specification – October 20097
:Anapurna Mw - System specifications
• Connectivity• RTL from RIP to engine by using the specific
“Agfa RIP MW”• Always check “Agfa ftp” for latest release AgfaRIP
• Both, white and color, can be printed together (= PreWhite) or seperate, multi layer (= PostWhite)
• When using White, substrate can be automatically (“Feed Back” function is checked) or manually repositioned
• “Double Strike” as well as “Uni- and Bi-Directional” printing modes are defined by Wasatch Image Configurations
• UV Mode can be driven by Agfa RIP• UV Power on engine need to be set to “full power”
Anapurna Mw – Technical Specification – October 20098
:Anapurna MW - System specifications
• Safety• 2 emergency stops
• 4 optical sensors to prevent unwanted contact with moving parts such as moving print shuttle
• Crash detecting system on shuttle
• Mechanical crash sensors
• On both sides of shuttle
• Sudden stop, automatic shut-down of UV lampsCurrent job lost!
• Approvals• CE, FCC & ROHS
Anapurna Mw – Technical Specification – October 20099
:Anapurna Mw – Print head specifications
• Printing head• Color
• 6 Konica-Minolta KM512MN
• Greyscale printing head, used as binary
• Shared Wall - 3 cycle
• Nr of Jets: 5122 rows of 256 nozzles
• Nozzle spacing: 70,5 µm
• Resolution: 360 npi (2*180 npi)
• Dropvolume: 14 plNozzle Diameter: 27µ
• White• 2 Konica-Minolta KM512LN*
• Binary head
• Shared Wall - 3 cycle
• Nr of Jets: 5122 rows of 256 nozzles
• Nozzle spacing: 70,5 µm
• Resolution: 360 npi (2*180 npi)
• Dropvolume: 42 plNozzle Diameter: 39µ
* 2 printing heads alternately jetting to achieve the optimum printing speed
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:Anapurna Mw – Print head specifications
• Print head positioning• Color
• Same positioning (V-Shape) as on all Agfa :Anapurna M series
• White• Positioned in front of Color Printing heads
Results in Pre-White application within one print run
• Post-White possible as second print run
• Special attention to alignment of White printing head
• Today, white applications only supported on rigids and/or semi flexible media such as thin clear polyester sheet
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:Anapurna Mw – UV Curing system
• UV curing• 2 Iron-doped UV lamps (D-Type bulb; Arc length 140 mm)
• 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 useful life time with enough power to cure the ink, is approximately 500 hourswhen bulb is continuously ON.
• Every switch OFF/ON takes away approximately 15 minutes of the bulb life time.
• Practically this comes down to a useful lifetime of around 3 months at a heavy use of the engine (40 hours a week).
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:Anapurna Mw – Agfa UV Ink
• UV Curable Ink • Color - Agfa UV Curable :Anapurna M UV Ink
• Cyan / Magenta / Yellow / Black / Light Cyan / Light Magentaand Flushing Solution
• White - Agfa “:Anapurna L/XL/XL2/M WhiteG2” ink
• Available in 1L bottle
• Shelf life for colors 18 months, white ink up to 12 months
• Ink temperature setup, Color as well as White Ink• Sub-Ink tank: 40°C
• Head Base: 45°C
• Supply and management - Color Ink• Main Ink-tank color: 1600ml
• Sub Ink-tank: 35ml
• Automatic refill system
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:Anapurna Mw – Agfa UV Ink
• UV Curable Ink• Supply and management - White Ink
• Main Ink-tank white: 2600ml
• Sub Ink-tank: 35ml
• Automatic refill system
• Automated White Ink maintenance system– User adjustable weeping/spitting of White Ink
Spitting White Ink at home position, even during print. Fixed amount of ink, variable in time (adjustable in minutes, today set to every 3 minutes)
– White Ink circulation – from sub-inktank back to main tankSystem will automatically pump some ink back from subinktank to main tank, leads to automatic refill of subinktank - Timing factory defined
• Automated long stand still setup– Advisable on long stand still (long stand still to be defined)
– Automatic (complete) drain of White Sub-Inktank– Temperature of White Sub-Inktank automatically set to 20°C
– Printheads on solution
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• 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 beBut ...- Heat sensitive media can cause problems, head crashes- Uneven substrates will cause problems, head crashes
• Higher gap settings will prevent head crashesBut ...- Too high head gap will cause unwanted ink spray, results in unsharp prints
• Preferred Head gap setting on :Anapurna MW - 1,3mm
• Extra recommend head gap settings for:– All heat sensitive media, whatever print mode used – 1,5mm
Remark: change on Head gap require new alignments
:Anapurna MW – Image Quality vs. Productivity
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:Anapurna MW – 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 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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• Image quality strongly dependent on type of substrate and Image content• Line and Text Quality
• 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” printed image accuracy:• Depends strongly on external factors such as:
expansion of the media by heat
• Tolerances of the engine are doubled when printing recto/verso
• In worse case, total accuracy can go up to 4mm
:Anapurna MW – Image Quality vs. Productivity
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• Image quality strongly dependent on type of substrate and Image content• UV Power setting
• Half and Full-Power setting on:Normal UV – Both UV – Reverse UVSpecial Technical note on “How to set a correct UV power” available
• Half UV Power setting can be very helpful for Heat sensitive mediaBut ...
• Be aware that some of those heat sensitive media need enough UV power to assure an adequate ink adhesion
– Fluted display – polypropylenebetter be printed with full UV Power, Uni-Directional printing mode, Head gap of 1,5mm
• Due to extensive heat radiation, for Safety and Image Quality reasons print-shuttle moves every pass from home to purge and back
– Printing small sized media will take longer
:Anapurna MW – Image Quality vs. Productivity
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Media• Minimum printable substrate
• A2, printed as landscape – 60 x 42cm (1,97ft x 1,4ft)
• Flexible mediaRoll-to-roll, Roll-to-Sheet and Sheet printing
• All printable flexible media, except “mesh” without liner
• Maximum width:Media size: 158cm (5,2ft)
Printable size: 156cm (5,1ft)
– Max printable sized reduced to 152cm (5ft)
when Borderless printing is used
• Minimum width: 60cm (1,97ft)
• Media roll specifications:
– Max roll weight: 50kg
– Max roll diameter: 36cm (14,17”)
– Support for 3” core
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Media• Rigid
• Maximum width:Media size: 158cm (5,2ft)
Printable size: 156cm (5,1ft)
– Max printable sized reduced to 152cm (5ft)
when Borderless printing is used
• Minimum width: 60cm (1,97ft)
– Extra “sub rollers” to support small media
• Maximum length:
– Supported by 1 rigid roller table (default): 150cm (4,9ft)
– Supported by 2 rigid roller tables (2nd table as option): 250cm (8,2ft)
• Minimum thickness: 1mm
• Maximum thickness: 45mm (1,77”)
• Maximum weight: 10kg/m² on printing table
• Dual board loading possible when using “registration blocks”
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Media and print• Media positioning:
• Automated “Media positioning bar” to align rigids
• Side guiders
• Media transport• Two-compartment vacuum table with separate adjustable vacuum
• Controlled vacuum inverter system
– Automatic adjusted vacuum to overcome a too high vacuum when printing table is completely covered
• Double woven belt driven Media transport
• Special technical note on “Vacuum Control setting” available
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Ionization bar• Positioned on both sides of shuttle
– Media thickness independentalways same position vs. substrate
• Discharging static loaded media
• Media transport specifications• Flexible media:
– Max skew of 5mm (0,2”) on 10m (32,8ft) printing length
• Rigid media:– Max skew of 2mm (0,08”) on 1,5m (4,9ft) (Def. - 1 rigid roller table)
– Max skew of 3mm (0,12”) on 2,5m (8,2ft) (Opt., 2 rigid roller tables)
• Image squareness angle of 2mm (0,08”) on 156cm (5,1ft)
• Color to color registration: maximum 210µm (Y vs. K)
• Special technical note on “How to load media” available
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Media transport specifications• Straight forward media transport only possible when:
– Engine is technically OK
– Flexible media (Roll-2-Roll and Roll-2-Sheet)
» Starting from correct winded media (Media OBQ)
» Media loaded in center of the printer, independent on media size
» Media-core and engine flanges correctly mounted
» Balance roller correctly placed
» Correct vacuum setup
» Correct UV settings
» Moving printshuttle per pass into capping
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Media transport specifications• Straight forward media transport only possible when:
– Rigids
» Use media tablesRemark, media longer then 150cm = 2 media tables
» Starting from media with a rectangular shapedon’t listen to Murphy, use Pythagoras!
» Load media in center of printing tableindependent on media size
» Correct vacuum setup
» Correct UV settings
» Moving print shuttle per pass into capping
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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 artifacts when viewed
at a distance of 1m (low level of graininess allowed, predominantly applicable to color solids)
• Photo/Vector-Sign• Almost perfect: no banding, no print artifacts, no visible
grain when viewed at a distance of less then 0,5m
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• Agfa “Color Gamut Definition”
• Goal, “ISO 12647-5 Standard –
Gamut class 2” color gamut for primary colors
• By Agfa used default input colorspaces
• sRGB for all kind of RGB images
• CoatedFOGRA39 (ISO) and CoatedGRACol2006 for CMYK Images
as well as vector data
:Anapurna MW – System setup
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup
• Normal, Single Strike printing functionality• Available on all Uni- as well as Bi-Directional
printing modes
• New - Double strike functionality• Printing identical same dots at same position when
shuttle moves back from purge to home• Results in higher color gamuts – extremely useful on all
kind of transparent and absorbent media
• Normal- & High Density Image configurations• To cover all possible Color- & Image Quality prints on all
kind of substrates
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup - Color
• Normal Density Image configurations• Production mode
– 4 pass Bi-Directional printing– Real good Image Quality, doesn’t span the wanted color gamut
Neither ISO/Fogra nor the GRACol color densities are covered
• High Qualtiy Poster printing mode– 4 pass “Double strike” printing mode with appropriate ICC profile– Should be used for all quality printing in 4pass
» Complete ISO/Fogra as well as GRACol colormatch» High saturated RGB reproductions
• Photo printing mode– 8 pass Uni-Directional printing– High quality/High density printing,
images as well as all vector data
11 m2/h118 ft2/h
6 m2/h65 ft2/h
4 m2/h43 ft2/h
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:Anapurna MW – System setup
• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup - Color
• High Density Image configurations• Absorbent & Translucent substrates
– 4 pass “double strike” printing – Using the “Normal Density Production” 4pass printing image
configuration– Ideal to be used on all kind of BackLit materials
• Transparent substrates– 8 pass “Double Strike” printing– Using the “Normal Density Production” Image configuration– High saturated, high quality output
to be used on all kind of transparent substrates such as glass
6 m2/h65 ft2/h
3 m2/h32 ft2/h
Draft mode: 2pass Bi-Directional - 21m2/hAvailable on special request!
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• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup - White• Best Quality when printed in 4 pass “Double Strike”
Perfect Quality in 8 pass Uni-Directional
• Specific White/color ICC profilesAgfa defined Image configurations:
• Full Page White, can be used in PreWhite (one printrun) as well as in PostWhite (2 printruns)
• White underneath every “NonZeroPixel”, most likely used in PreWhite but also possible in PostWhite.Automatic “choke” function in Wasatch SoftRIP
• Spot White White obtained by mask, defined in image editing sw (PhotoShop).Choke need to be defined on mask
:Anapurna Mw – White Applications
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• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup - White
• Pre-White
• Print on top of substrate, normal printing
• All FrontLit applications
• On Transparent as well as on Opaque substrates
• Available on:– High Qualtiy Poster printing mode
» 4 pass “Double strike” printing mode with appropriate ICC profile
– Photo printing mode
» 8 pass Uni-Directional printing» High quality/High density printing,
images as well as all vector data
:Anapurna Mw – White Applications
Print on Black Forex
6 m2/h - 65 ft2/h
4 m2/h - 43 ft2/h
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• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup - White• Post-White
• Print on back side of substrate, mirror/wrong reading printing
• All BackLit applications on Transparent media
• White in 2nd printrun
:Anapurna Mw – White Applications
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• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup - White
• Day/Night application
• Print on back side of substrate,
mirror/wrong reading printing
• On Transparent media, such as glass
• Combination of color print (1st printrun) with Pre-White print (2nd printrun)
:Anapurna Mw – White Applications
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• Agfa “Image Configuration” setup - White
• Opaque white application
• Print on back side of substrate,
mirror/wrong reading printing
• On Transparent media, such as glass
• Combination of color print (1st printrun) followed by “PreWhite” colored mask (2nd printrun)
and Pre-White color print (3th printrun)
:Anapurna Mw – White Applications
Results in Opaque image with transparent part
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:Anapurna MW – Ink Consumption
• Ink Consumption calculated (weighted) on:• Normal coverage – Agfa UV Testpage
• Full size Solid vector image –Solid Blue color, 100% Cyan and Magenta
• White consumption defined on “full page White”
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:Anapurna MW – Ink Consumption
• Normal density• Production mode
• Normal Coverage: 7 ml/m2
• Full size solid: 12 ml/m2
• High Quality Poster printing mode
• Normal Coverage: 8 ml/m2
• Full size solid: 17 ml/m2
• Photo printing mode• Normal Coverage: 8 ml/m2
• Full size solid: 13 ml/m2
• High density• Absorbent & Translucent
substrates• Normal Coverage: 15 ml/m2
• Full size solid: 23 ml/m2
• Transparent substrates• Normal Coverage: 15 ml/m2
• Full size solid: 25 ml/m2
• White Ink Consumption• Production mode
• Normal Coverage: 40 ml/m2
• Photo printing mode• Normal Coverage: 56 ml/m2