Today, the winners of the EDP Awards 2016 were announced at drupa 2016. Agfa Graphics’ Jeti Mira was recognized by EDPA for its excellence. The Jeti Tauro was nominated as well.
Mortsel, Belgium – June 1, 2016
The European Digital Press Association grants the EDP Awards to the best products of the year introduced in the European market. It reviews quality, but also aspects such as value to the user, support and service.
Agfa Graphics is proud to have been rewarded with this quality and innovation mark for the Jeti Mira in the category ‘Best wide format flatbed/hybrid printer up to 250 m²/h’. The Jeti Mira is a 6-color and white UV-inkjet true flatbed printing system featuring a moving gantry. It is one of Agfa Graphics’ newest UV-inkjet solutions, ideal for applications ranging from posters, signage, exhibit graphics and POP displays to niche applications such as DVDs, wood, art reproductions, personalized objects and more. Printing varnish or primer are options.
At drupa, the Jeti Mira is on display with the dockable roll-to-roll option offering a unique solution to print on a wide variety of both flexible and rigid media.
The Jeti Mira is driven by the Asanti workflow software (EDP Award winner in 2014), which takes control of the entire process, from prepress to production through finishing. Asanti’s file handling, color management and preflighting raise the efficiency of the complete system with fewer errors and reduced time loss. Asanti is completed by Asanti StoreFront, Agfa Graphics’ web-to-print solution that enables management of online stores and automatic processing of print orders.
About the European Digital Press Association and the EDP awards
The European Digital Press Association (EDP) acts as a recognised industry forum and groups publishers of leading European magazines who are all devoted to digital printing and associated products. Combined, these magazines cover 14 European countries and address more than 1 million professional readers.
The Association grants the EDP Awards to the best products of the year introduced in the European market to acknowledge the value of the research and development tasks of the industry. A technical committee made up of independent consultants, editors, engineers and other related professionals, has been assigned the task to check the products launched in Europe during the year.
Evaluation is based on innovation. The EDP Technical Committee judges the products on the value of the new technical abilities they offer. This can be innovation in the technology that improves speed, quality, usability and functionality or reduces environmental footprint as well as cost to the user.
About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world’s leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector (Agfa Healthcare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Specialty Products). Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globe. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 2,646 million euros in 2016.
About Agfa Graphics
Agfa Graphics offers integrated prepress solutions to the commercial printing industry, the newspaper printing and publishing industry and the sign and display, decoration and industrial inkjet printing industry. These solutions comprise consumables, hardware, software and services for production workflow, project and process management, cloud software and image processing.
Agfa Graphics is a worldwide leader with its computer-to-film, computer-to-plate, digital proofing and security solutions for commercial and packaging printers.
For newspaper markets Agfa Graphics is leading supplier of automation for printed and mobile publishing workflows.
Agfa Graphics has also developed a prominent position in the new segments of industrial inkjet. It offers a wide range of inkjet presses and a complete assortment of high-quality inks.
Contact:
Paul Adriaensen
Agfa Graphics Press Relations Manager
tel. ++32 (0)3/444.3940
e-mail: paul.adriaensen@agfa.com
