Fontus 8i Mini Liquid Handling Workstation, 8-Tip Varispan

Product Features:

• Use Disposable or Fixed (washable) pipette tips without any hardware changes, thanks to the VersaTip™ technology
• Independent Z-axis (up and down) movement control, liquid level sensing and spanning Y-motion of the Varispan™ arm easily allow pipetting in labware such as tubes, microplates, deep well plates, troughs, and vials.
• Independent liquid level sensing, including aqueous, low or non-ionic polar solutions and solvents such as DMSO are possible with the patented Accursense™ technology.

Key Applications:

• Protein purification
• Master mix creation
• Nucleic acid isolation
• PCR
• ELISA
• Sanger
• NGS
• Cherry picking
• Plate arrays
• Plate preparation
• Normalization
• Nuclear testing
• Sample or reagent serial dilution
• DNA extraction from DBA
• LC/MS sample prep

These manual workflows, and many more, can be seamlessly automated on the Fontus 8i Mini workstation.

Software features:

The Fontus 8i Mini workstation has an intuitive user interface:

• WinPREP™ software and Application Assistant simplifies setup, method creation, and protocol execution. It enables real-time research monitoring, sample tracking, and device integration for automated workflows.
• Designed to adapt to labs’ evolving research needs, easy-to-use WinPREP simplifies modifying existing protocols or creating new ones without needing a programmer, reducing downtime and costs.
• Predefined labware definitions simplify assay set-up and enable labware definitions to remain independent of the position on the instrument.
• The performance file library offers optimized pipetting parameters and the ability to modify pump speeds, air gaps, waste and blowout volumes, and liquid delays.

Varispan™ Arm Options:

• Fixed Tips: regular and low volume and VersaTip sampling tip
• Disposable Tips: 20, 25, 50, 175, 200, 900, 1000, and 5000 μL tips available.
• Conductive (black) and clear, filter, non-filter, and sterile formats available
• Syringe volumes: 250, 500, 1000, 2500, 5000 μL