I owned a Arizona 660xt for a couple of years. I also own an AGFA Jeti 1224 HDC and an AGFA Jeti Titan HS. These are the bigger brothers to both the machines your looking at. From a production/usability/operator standpoint, if the software on the annapurna is similar to the Jeti's, I'd pick AGFA hands down. The Oce had all kinds of stupid things you couldn't do. For example, you couldn't pause a print and prime the heads, and then continue printing. The lamps have to turn off and your print is aborted. I also don't like the ink bag system on the Arizona. You have to always bleed the lines so you don't get air in the heads. Printhead cleaning took forever, with the little hand vacuum sucker. I can prime and print in less than 15 seconds on the AGFA's and knew my nozzles would always be firing. The Arizona was a totally different story. I was constantly doing nozzle test prints and sometimes spent 10-15 minutes just to get it running. If the nozzles aren't firing, the lamps half to turn off again and then you have to go through the whole process again. Lots of wasted ink. The GUI is also really limited in my opinion. No rotating or printing multiple different jobs at the same time on the same board. They have to all be ripped and nested together in the rip. No ink density control. When I had it, it didn't have table pins. They do now though. One of the first questions after the installed it. "Where's the pins?" The installers looked at me like, "What do you need pins for?" So showed them the 1224 HDC and they got it. (That was mostly our fault though, we bought the printer for a specific customer, for a specific job and didn't do our homework right." We had to print the table rulers and line up to the line. The table vacuum was horrible. You always had to have the entire area masked out or it didn't hold down media. Forget about cardboard unless you want to use two sided tape. Ok rant over. Truly, I think we just had a bad experience overall experience, because I've heard others who really like the Arizona's. That being said, when it's printing, it does print really good. I was impressed how well it printed as a 4 color machine. But, I wouldn't buy another flatbed that wasn't a 6 color machine.
Summary: I'd go with the Anapurna if the quality is there. I think the overall user experience is better.
Arizona Pros
Print quality is excellent
Batch system if you need it. We were doing layered prints and it works really well for that.
White ink is really opaque
Minimal Cure Banding
Arizona Cons
Software GUI
Bagged Ink System
Vacuum
Printhead Cleaning/ Ink Waste
Getting the white ink to print (I'd have it drop out right in the middle of prints)
No pins (When I had it.)
Ink chipped bags
Much more expensive ink
Titan Pros
Awesome GUI
Excellent Vacuum System
Quick printhead cleaning
Excellent Print Quality
Titan Cons
Slightly Worse Ink Adhesion
White ink is not as Opaque
A little cure banding when running in production mode.
