Agfa launches Jeti Mira with UV LED curing

Print Solutions

Agfa Graphics’ Jeti Mira is a moving gantry flatbed printer specially designed to offer optimal flexibility. With up to 2.69 metre wide prints, print and prepare functionality, a dockable roll to roll option, two table versions, speed (up to 231 square metres per hour), six colour, white colour standard, highly pigmented UV inks and two rows of fast firing Ricoh inkjet printheads, the machine met that ‘optimal flexibility’. The latest printer upgrade now also includes UV LED curing technology, which involves significant advantages.

‘Equipped with UV LED lamps for the curing process, the Jeti Mira comes with a number of economical, ecological and business generating benefits,’ explained Reinhilde Alaert, marketing product manager, Sign and Display High End, Agfa Graphics. ‘LEDs have minimal heat output, for example, which allows for a broader scope of print applications. They also ensure very stable bi-directional calibration, high productivity, significant power savings and consistent output over the lifetime of the system. This all leads to a greater return on investment.’

Relying on LED technology, the company’s specially formulated UV LED inks can print on heat sensitive substrates such as thin slides, self-adhesive sheets and stretchable PVC materials. They are both customised and versatile, developed with a view to the many different media they are intended for. Agfa made UV inks also boast a wide colour gamut and high colour vibrancy in both indoor and outdoor applications, while their high pigment load and Asanti’s colour management optimisation ensure low ink consumption.

The Jeti Mira is driven by workflow software Asanti, which controls the entire printing process from pre-press to production and finishing. New to Asanti is the optional integration with PrintSphere – Agfa’s cloud based service for production automation, easy file sharing and safe data storage. PrintSphere offers a standardised way for printers to automate their workflows and facilitate data exchange with customers, colleagues, freelancers, other departments and other Agfa solutions.

Last but not least, the Jeti Mira can add a dramatic touch to many different applications, including point of sale displays, packaging, decorative prints and trade show graphics, thanks to 3D lens printing technology. Using a combination of printed lenses composed of UV curable varnish and image manipulations, the Jeti Mira knows no limits. It adds depth to print results by tuning the size of varnish lenses and the array in which they are printed.