Agfa replaces unfinished :Anapurna 100 with :Anapurna X and :Anapurna XL

At IPEX 2006 and simultaneously at ISA 2006, Agfa launched their :Anapurna X and Anapurna XL to replace the :Anapurna 100.

The :Anapurna 100 was the same body as the Mutoh Cobra (to be manufactured by Mutoh Europe in Belgium ). So Mutoh now has no UV printer of their own. Instead Mutoh has launched the Mutoh Cobra S65uv and Mutoh Cobra S100uv. It gets complex quickly: Agfa has now replaced the Anapurna 100 with the Anapurna XLS.

Reportedly the :Anapurna X and :Anapurna XL are manufactured by an Asian company that is not Mutoh. The FLAAR Reports will cover this specifically now that full information is available. The OEM model is one we already know from earlier trade shows.

Today comparative price, ROI, cost, performance, and tech support are all factors. Speed, resolution are being improved with every new season. The competition in 2006 would be the Durst Rho 600 Pictor, the ColorSpan 9840, the Vutek 200/600. Once upon a time a competitor was perhaps the DuPont CromaPrint 22UV, but its engineering was deficient and DuPont had to withdraw from the UV printer market.

The Oce Arizona 250 GT UV become competitive but has issues that we detail in the FLAAR Reports.

Comprehensive new FLAAR Report on the :Anapurna L and XL

Available now is an expanded update of our coverage of the Agfa :Anapurna L and XL, which naturally also covers the Mutoh Cobra S65uv and S100uv (since they were all the same machine, in two sizes). But today (2008), Mutoh no longer cooperates with Agfa, and Mutoh has its own printer, the Mutoh Zephyr (which is a hybrid style, not a combo style with moving transport belt).

Agfa :Anapurna L printer at FESPA Digital trade show 2006.

 

The Agfa :Anapurna XL printer was exhibited at FESPA Digital trade show 2006.

 

Here is the Agfa :Anapurna XL printer showing some samples at Madrid trade show 2006.

 

 

Most recently updated June 16, 2008, after DRUPA 2008.

First posted March 15, 2006. Updated April 6, 2006 and again later in 2006.