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European Digital Press Association (EDP) rewards UV LED inks from Agfa Graphics

Yesterday, the winners of the EDP Awards were announced at FESPA 2017. Agfa Graphics’ UV LED inks, which are used in theJeti Tauro H2500 LED, Anapurna H3200i LED, Jeti Ceres RTR3200 LED and Jeti Mira LEDon the FESPA show floor, were recognized for their excellence.

Mortsel, Belgium – May 11, 2017

The European Digital Press Association reviews products introduced in the European market evaluating quality, but also value to the user, support and service.Itgrants the EDP Awards to the best products of the year.

Agfa Graphics is proud to have been rewarded with this quality and innovation mark for its UV LED inks, now used in the entire assortment of Anapurnaand Jeti wide-format printers and in many industrial printing.

Printing systems equipped with UV LED lamps provide a number of unique technical advantages resulting in important economical benefits for the system owner.These include a wider media scope, lower power consumption and better system uptime.

Agfa Graphics’specially-formulated UV LED inks can print on a wide variety of rigid and flexible substrates guaranteeing outstanding print quality and perfect physical characteristics such as adhesion. These include heat-sensitive substrates such as thin styrene sheets, self-adhesive sheets and stretchable PVC materials. Agfa Graphics also markets UV LED inks for single pass applications, available for inkjet system integrators active in marking and coding, digital label printing, packaging and object decoration.

Agfa’s UV inks boast a wide color gamut and high color vibrancy thanks to the well-known Thin Ink Layer technology from Agfa Graphics, which guaranteesthe lowest ink consumption with the highest color quality.

About the European Digital Press Association and the EDP awards

The European Digital Press Association (EDP) acts as a recognized industry forum and groups publishers of leading European magazines who are all devoted to digital printing and associated products. They cover 14 European countries and address more than 1million 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 by independent consultants, editors, engineers and other related professionals, hasbeen 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 impact 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 Materials). 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 2,537million euros in 2016.

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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.

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Paul Adriaensen

Agfa Graphics Press Relations Manager

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