AGFA Graphics is known for its diversity. The company supports print service providers across a wide range of platforms, from traditional offset to the latest flexible and innovative digital solutions.
It will be using its PrintEx15 display on Stand 1737, therefore, to show the newest releases across its ranges.
This will include the international debut of two next generation systems for the wide-format print and display markets, forward thinking digital workflows and new chemical-free printing plates.
The centerpiece of the stand will be the high-speed Anapurna M2500i UV-curable inkjet print system and the Acorta automatic cutting and finishing plotter. These are to be demonstrated separately and together as part of a single workflow, to show off their flexibility and productivity.
The six-colour Anapurna M2500i is AGFA’s latest addition to its market-leading family of ‘combo’ printers, which has been developed specifically for high quality reproduction on rigid and ‘roll to roll’ flexible substrates up to 2.5 metres wide.
Its advances include higher quality and speed than its predecessors, due to its more accurate dot positioning, enhanced curing system and higher performing print heads. It is the ‘heavy-duty, turnkey and complete’ UV inkjet system. Its ability to print opaque white ink makes it ideal for transparent as well as opaque media, while a new automatic board feeder increases productivity when using rigid substrates. The fully-automatic Acorta plotter complements its wide-format print capacity by providing finishing options designed specifically to suit cardboard, digital and signage printers.
“The M2500i will appeal to a very broad range of businesses, from sign shops and printers involved in POS and display work, to digital printers, photo labs and mid-sized graphic screen printers who produce indoor and outdoor printed graphics,” Mark Brindley, managing director of AGFA Graphics Oceania.
“This is complemented by the extremely fast and flexible Acorta cutting and finishing system which can help businesses add value to their wide-format print output, which is essentially in today’s increasingly competitive market.”
AGFA Graphics will also show off a suite of new workflow options including Apogee 9.0 PDF/JDF Workflow software designed for traditional and multi-faceted print service providers and Asanti Workflow for wide-format production.
Brindley noted, “Optimising production throughout the workflow is critical to performance and profitability and both Apogee 9.0 and Asanti enable high levels of automation throughout the production process, with innovative tools and enhancements which allow businesses to improve customer connections, enhance the interaction between different links in the production chain, and ensure the very highest levels of productivity and efficiency from job receipt to delivery.”
AGFA’s broad range of proven consumables will be headed by the new DoP Azura TE Chem-free printing plate. The inherently stable, thermally imaged plates offer great image contrast, so they’re easy to handle and check, and achieve perfect ink-water balance within a few sheets, for extra fast make-ready.
PrintEx15 is being held at the Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park, from 13 – 15 May. To attend, register here.
