Technical Presentation M4f V1.0 090301

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Technical Product Presentation Anapurna M4F

Application & Services Inkjet



Anapurna M4F – Technical Specification – March 20092

• Robust Engineered - Professional – Flatbed UV Wide FormatPrinter (RTR optional)

• Very affordable capital investment

• Perfect fit for Digital Printshops & Mid Size Graphic Screenprinters

• Poster output against 14m²/h

• Solids and signs in 8 pass printing mode

• For safety, Anapurna M4F requires permanent operator attendance

• Applications (flexibles only with RTR option)• Banners, Posters, 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 andInterior decoration, Ceramics printing, .......

:Anapurna M4F Features & Positioning




:Anapurna M4F – System specifications

• Working conditions

• Size of the engine

• 357 x 155 x 160cm

• Weight: 980kg

• Working space

• Single “Rigid Table” 5,5 x 5,5m

• Dual “Rigid Table” 5,5 x 8m

1.25m

1.25m

5 , 5 m


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• 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



:Anapurna M4F - 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



:Anapurna M4F - 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 movingparts such as moving print shuttle

• Approvals

• CE, FCC & ROHS





• Printing head• 4 Konica-Minolta KM512MN

• 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”





• 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 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 usefull lifetime of around3 months at a heavy use of the engine (40 hours a week).




:Anapurna M4F – System setup

• UV Curable Ink• Agfa UV Curable :Anapurna M UV Ink

• Cyan / Magenta / Yellow / Black 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




Agfa’s “Quality Levels definition”

• Production ode• 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 artefacts when viewed

at a distance of 1m (low level of graininess allowed,

predominantly applicable to colour

solids)• Photo/Vector-Sign

• Almost perfect: no banding, no print artifacts, no visible

grain when viewed at a distance of less then 0,5m




• Image quality strongly dependent ontype 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 M4F - 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

:Anapurna M4F – Image Quality vs. Productivity




• Image quality strongly dependent on type of substrate and Image content

• Print shuttle speed

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Minimum: 0.48m/sec -

Maximum: 0.84m/sec• Adjustable in 10 steps,

recommended optimum at step 10 = 0.84m/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

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Heat sensitive

media easier

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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





• Image quality strongly dependent ontype 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• Full UV Power setting is needed to obtain optimal Image Quality






• Quality/Productivity

• Production

• Poster

• Vector

• Photo

• Workload

• Maximum recommended workload of 6h/day with max

non-stop printing time of 1h

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720*720 – Q4 pass Uni: 8m²/hour – BiDirectional: 14m²/hour

}720*1440 – Q8 pass

Uni: 4m²/hour – BiDirectional: 7,5m²/hour

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• Media• Rigid

• Maximum width: Media size: 158cm Printable size: 158cm

– Max printable sized reduced to 152cm

when Borderless printing is used

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Minimum width: 42cm – Extra “sub rollers” to support small media

• Maximum length:

– 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”





• Media• Minimum printable substrate

• A3, printed as landscape – 42 x 29,7cm

• Flexible media – Roll-to-roll available as option• All printable flexible media, except “mesh” without liner

• Maximum width: Media size: 158cm Printable size: 158cm– Max printable sized reduced to 152cm

when Borderless printing is used

• Minimum width: 42cm

• Media roll specifications: – Max roll weight: 50kg

– Max roll diameter: 36cm

– Support for 3” core





• 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





• Media transport specifications• Flexible media: Roll-to-roll available as option

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 140µm total

variance in both dimensions when measuring theregistration between two colours over the full width of

the belt





• 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 M4F – Agfa Image configurations

• Standard Agfa :Anapurna M4F Image configurationsavailable on “Agfa ftp” site

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:Anapurna M4F – Ink Consumption

• Q4P• On standard page (Agfa UV testpage): 6ml/m2

• On Full size solids, secondary color (Solid Blue): 13ml/m2

• Q8P Normal use• On standard page (Agfa UV testpage): 8ml/m2


• Q8P Heavy usage (Wide Gamut Profile)

• On standard page (Agfa UV testpage): 9ml/m2


A M M i t




:Anapurna M4F – Maintenance

• 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 byoperator

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