Making print fashionableAlussa, the revolution in leather printing

Our Alussa leather printing solution enables you to offer your customers top-quality, high-performance printed leather with unique designs, whenever they want, and in any volume.

Your benefits

• Supply your customers with unique, innovative printed leathers with photorealistic color reproduction

• Print small (even one-off) volumes in response to shorter product cycles and the increasing demand for product differentiation

• Personalize print jobs by including logos, initials, pictures…

• Fully integrated solution with a minimal start-up investment cost

• No need for outsourcing means achieving shorter processing times and higher margins

The printer

• Robust and reliable UV-inkjet printer

• Immediate start-up

• Print & Prepare option to prepare next job while printing

• Less waste & more environmentally sound than alternative techniques

The prints

• Top-quality, photorealistic images – in color or grayscale

• Wide color gamut

• Immediately dry and ready for further processing

• Very strong rub resistance

• Solid flex performance

Why Agfa Graphics?

• 150 years of experience in imaging, printing, inks & color management

• Solid company with a 2.6 billion annual turnover and more than 10,000 employees worldwide

• Always near to you – representatives in 40 countries around the world

• Great support and guidance

• Additional services: workflow, web-to-print, security printing software, cutting machines

Top-quality, high-performance leather printing.

Any design. Any quantity. Any time.

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Integrate UV inkjet printing in your leather production process

Alussa leather printing solution

CRUSTING

TANNING

PREPARATION

BASE COATING

• Conventional coating machine

• Agfa proprietary base coat formulation: a specially designed chemical mix to create the perfect bond between leather and ink

DRYING

UV-INKJET PRINTING

• Agfa Graphics’ leather printer + workflow software

• Specially designed UV inks with wide color gamut and high-performance characteristics

• Leather, cut into rectangles, is mounted on the printer

• Printer asserts vacuum and keeps leather on fixed position

• Operator selects image to print

• Printer prints image, which is fixated by UV-light

TOP COATING

• Conventional coater

• Agfa proprietary top coat formulation: a specially designed chemical mix to form a protective layer and increase performance

DRYING

FUSING

• A heat press forces the ink layer to penetrate the leather surface and fuses all the layers together

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FINISHING

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Making print fashionableAlussa, the revolution in leather printing

Sample printed on bovine leather with the Alussa leather printing solution

Create stunning products with leather printed using the Alussa solution

Handbags

Furniture

Footwear

Clothing

Vehicle seats

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About Agfa The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world’s leading companies in imaging and information technology. Its business group Agfa Graphics develops, manufactures and markets analog and digital prepress and printing systems for the printing industry.Agfa Graphics holds a prominent position in inkjet printing, offering a wide range of UV-inkjet printing engines and a complete assortment of high-quality inks, in addition to workflow and color management software. Agfa Graphics also offers integrated prepress solutions to commercial, newspaper and packaging printing companies, comprising consumables, hardware, software and services.

Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globe.

More about the Alussa leather printing solution: www.agfagraphics.com/leatherprinting

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