The 3.3m-wide machine was first announced at Fespa 2018 in Berlin but was not shown at that event as the manufacturer instead chose to use an immersive booth concept to introduce the machine.
It was shown live for the first time at an event held at Agfa’s Belgian headquarters in June 2018 and subsequently at events in the US, France and Spain.
The Jeti Tauro H3300 LED is available as a roll-to-roll system or with manual loading and unloading, semi-automation or full automation. At Fespa it will be shown running with manual input and output tables.
Three colour configurations are also available: the six-colour (CMYK, light cyan, light magenta) Jeti Tauro H3300 LED 6C, the six-colour-plus-white Jeti Tauro H3300 LED 6C W12 and the six-colour-plus-white and primer Jeti Tauro H3300 LED 6C W8P4.
“To show the full extent of our product line would have required us to have significantly more space than was available for Fespa 2018,” said Agfa UK inkjet sales manager Bobby Grauf.
“At the Antwerp launch event we had two machines running side-by-side, one roll-to-roll and one with full automation. It wouldn’t have made the same impact if we’d taken [only one] machine to Fespa last year.
“But this year the product is known and people have seen it in the flesh; they’ve got reference sites to go to in their individual countries because of the sales successes that we’ve had, so we can build upon that.
“Our 2018 Fespa model worked very well for us indeed, but this year is a confirmation and a follow-up of that. It’s not that one way or the other works better, it’s that with what we wanted to achieve last year, it was better for us to have a launch event showing the two extremes of the configuration as opposed to showing only half of it.”
Capable of printing at resolutions up to 635x1,200dpi, the Jeti Tauro H3300 LED can handle media up to 50mm thick and can print at speeds of up to 453sqm/hr. Pricing starts from £500,000, depending on configuration.
“The acceptance of the machine has been outstanding. The feedback has been phenomenal from everyone that has seen it, has had samples or benchmarks printed or has seen live demonstrations,” said Grauf.
“It captures a much wider audience than we first envisaged. It’s a versatile machine that goes into areas that might not be immediately apparent, from interior decoration to the standard retail work that people produce. The beauty of showing it at Fespa is to show that scope and that breadth of product that can be printed.”
Agfa will also show its 3.2m-wide Anapurna H3200 LED hybrid printer running live on its Fespa booth, as well as the latest version of its Asanti workflow tool.
Asanti 4.0, which is commercially available immediately, embraces the new Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) and supports the G7 method, a device-independent set of specifications for achieving accurate colours and visual similarity across all print processes.
“Fespa is still a show where we try to strengthen our brand as well as our relationships with existing customers, and it is also where we meet new customers,” said Grauf.
“It’s not just printers that go to Fespa but people that are adjacent to the print facilities, and that’s why showing various applications is important to us as well. You trigger interest not just from printers but also from brand owners, who see what can actually be achieved.”
Agfa will be exhibiting at stand B4-L10 at Fespa, which is taking place from 14-17 May at Messe Munich, Germany.
