Agfa and TFL have jointly developed an inkjet printing solution to decorate high-quality genuine leathers used by the fashion, upholstery, automotive, aviation and nautical industries. The solution named Alussa enables decoration of leather in such a way that it retains high flexibility and scratch resistance.
Agfa develops inkjet printers and dedicated inkjet inks as well as the software to manage and monitor the printing process. TFL provides custom-developed coating chemistry. The Alussa leather printing solution incorporates both Agfa’s vast expertise in the field of inkjet technology, graphic workflow and color management, and TFL’s in-depth knowledge of coating chemistry and coating application techniques.
Alussa is the sum of a number of perfectly matched components. Alussa enables the leather industry to decorate high-quality leather in such a way that it exhibits the excellent performance required in terms of flexibility and scratch resistance. It is the first industrial inkjet printing solution outputting decorated leather that can handle up to 1,00,000 flexes. Alussa can print both white and full-color designs with photographic quality on diverse types of leather. As it is a digital printing solution, it is ideal for customising and personalising leather products, thus catering to a global trend. Also, it just as easily allows for the creation of one-offs eg samples as of large volumes.
