VIAFLO 96 – Electronic 24 and 96 Channel Handheld Pipette by INTEGRA Biosciences

"This instrument is very easy to use and the results are reproducible."

"The VIAFLO has been a great addition to our lab. Previously, I spent a lot of my time using a multichannel pipet for high-throughput screening. The VIAFLO has saved me a significant amount of time in my workflows. It is extremely easy to use and I am able to work with a variety of plate types. The different size 96 and 384 heads allow me to use the VIAFLO for any high-throughput application in the lab."

"Easy to use, fast, and very precise."

"Viaflo 96 can use in the hood. Handling is very smooth. Multipippette also used for 384-well plates."

"The use of Viaflo 96 really saves time in the lab and is making work life better as a technician."

"The Viaflo 96 is a very user-friendly, small footprint solution for a simple but time consuming process. Also very useful for sample preparation where manual processing is variable from analysts to analyst but automation provides consistency."

"Excellent product that is really simple to program and use. Tips never fall off because of the grip lock."

"The pipettes are easily the most ergonomic. I'm able to use the pipette all day without any hand fatigue. The tips retain no leftover volume and are perfect for high throughput assays that require consistent volumes. "

"Works really well, easy to use, saves time, multiple uses."

"My biologists love the machine. They say it is easy to use and efficient. Tips are very expensive, and we hope the price could be lower."

"Programs have saved a lot of time + operater wear for working higher throughput."

"Great and easy to use."

"Easily the best multichannel pipettes."

"Awesome products! Easy to use and saves time and money."

"I like the design of different heads to provide precision for different volumes. What I don't like is the process to change the heads. If I don't do it frequently, I have to go back to the manual. A simple cartoon or schematic on the device could help."

"Some people get nervous making protocols but being able to have them made by integra and on the fly, is great."

"Fantastic product. Easy to learn and improved my workflow efficiency tremendously. This unit has allowed me to double/triple my work capacity."

"Excellent, easy to use."

"The INTEGRA sales person is looking after us very well. Before and after the sale. Very important: the sales person never ever put any pressure on us, to ensure that we bought from them. He always waited to hear from us, before contacting us again. Very respectful. Concerning the VIAFLO pipettes, we needed to change our old Matrix pipettes. Our 'problem' was that we needed new pipettes capable of handling cells within 96 wells plates without scratching the cell monolayer, or at least only at the very corner of the wells. This needed pipet tips with narrow ends. So before asking any pipet on demo, we asked for pipet tips from 6 different companies, including INTEGRA. In the mean time we also looked at the price for tips (which is far more important than the price of the pipettes). We then compared all the pipette tips we obtained. Half of the tips were just too wide at their ends and thus useless. Then we compared the prices of the tips and also studied any information we could obtain (technical information, etc.). We found that the INTEGRA VIAFLO pipettes seemed to fulfill our needs, at least on paper. We then asked for a demo. The VIAFLO pipette was very quickly delivered. We tested it over the course of a week: programing, pipetting, scratching the cells in our 96 well plates. We found that the VIAFLO very nicely did what it needed to do. We did not ask another brand for a demo. We ended up buying four 1250 uL VIAFLO pipettes and one 300 uL VIAFLO pipette. We have been using these pipettes for a couple of months now. We are all very satisfied with them and do not regret buying them at all."

"I would definitely recommend it to others. It gave reproducible results and was easy to use."

"The device is very good for us in both time and money saving."

"Setup was easy, day to day use is simple, instrument was cost effective solution for our lab. Love it!"

"Easy to use and very quick to learn."

"This instrument is one of the best 96 assisted pipetting head in the market. The ease of use and dependability is outstanding, it has saved us numerous times."

"Had our VIAFLO for 5 yrs. Has been reliable and makes our life easier."

"The Viaflo96 allows a single user to comfortably and accurately process multiple 96-well plates across a variety of assays. Compared to other 96-channel options on the market, the Viaflo96 is the same price but a standard above with its bench top robotic capabilities that dramatically increase efficiency and consistency in liquid handling anywhere in the lab. The only price hurdle is the pipette tips, but overall well worth it for what the machine is capable of. Integra has provided great customer service throughout our experience, from demoing to purchasing and installing the unit."

"VIAFLO96 offers a wide range of pipette programs which can be performed intuitively and easily. We soon found this device is quite user-friendly. Handling 96 samples in a single step by the VIAFLO enables us to save pipetting time on many protocols and to increase our pipetting throughput significantly. We've used it to make DNA libraries for NGS in combination with low-retention tips. This benchtop system fits into our lab very well. We definitely won't go back to the way that we used to process DNA multi-sample by hand."

"Fantastic pipettes. So interesting to see all of them in action"

"The VIAFLO 96 Channel pipette is amazing. It not only increases efficiency and productivity, but also removes human error in regards to pipetting incorrect volumes or incorrect sample / solution / solvent. It is fully programmable, I personally run 3 methods on it, a main drug panel with an enzyme, an alcohol panel as well as a mixed panel. I run Solid Phase Extraction as well on all my samples, and this does 90% of the pipetting for me. It comes with 5 different 'Head' sizes for different pipette tips (volumes). I currently only use the 100-300uL and the 50-1250uL. The only time I need assistance from tech support was while doing validation. Other than that the instrument has been 100% reliable, and I've had mine for about 4 years and use it every day."

"This pipette is WONDERFUL. Our sample throughput went up 50% by replacing our regular 8-channel pipette with this 96 well pipette. The system is very easy to use and gives you many pipetting options not available with a regular pipette. Being able to customize my pipetting programs has made for much smoother, faster experiments. I tell the pipette which program to run, press go, and it does all the work for me! And the best part.... my hand no longer hurts from all of the pipetting we do!"

"Looked daunting at first but is very easy to use, even for someone who has never worked with INTEGRA products before. Programming works exactly like an INTEGRA electronic pipette, so it's a no-brainer if you've already used those. I use it with a specific 3D spheroid plate, so it has to be very precise for aspirating supernatant without disturbing the tissues, which it does perfectly. It has saved me a lot of pipetting time, I can now exchange media on 5 plates in around 2 minutes, which helps enormously!"

"I love using this. I have to transfer DNA from 96 well plates to 384 well plates. Used to take me all day making these plates by hand. This product cuts that time significantly. Now, I can make 20+ 384 plates in less than an hour. It's amazing."

"We have currently got two Viaflo 96/384 running in our high-throughput screening and expression lab. Introducing the Viaflo 96 device has enabled us to efficiently screen our drug products in 96/384 well format with high reproducibility. Handling the Viaflo 96 is as easy as using an iPod Classic with its innovative user interface. Minimum effort required to introduce new colleagues to the instrument. We completely rely on this great instrument!"

"I would highly recommend this instrument. Currently, I use the VIAFLO for sequencing preparation. It is remarkable how much time it saves, from before doing everything manually to now having a 96-well head to aid in the work flow. It is very user-friendly and easy to program. I use this instrument every day for most of the day. The after sales care has been unbelievable. Anytime I have a question/concern, or if there has been an issue with the instrument (which rarely occurs) there was always someone to instruct me over the phone or someone was there the next day."

"Just a handy thing to have. Pipette, serial dilute or even wash a plate. Better CVs and fast turnaround for set up and use."

"We have used the Viaflo96 to replace pipetting operations that were causing high ergonomic stress on operators. The implementation of this instrument has eliminated the areas of stress and increased the throughput on many of our key assays."

"The VIAFLO 96 is easy to program, easy to train on, and easy to use. The operators find the instrument user friendly, and appreciate the time savings found by using the VIAFLO 96 instead of manual reagent addition. INTEGRA installed the instrument and trained operators, and answered all questions. The instrument requires minimal amount of maintenance. The VIAFLO 96 is a great way to save time and does not require the full investment in time / cost for full automation. "

"The VIAFLO 96 is an easy to use option for adding some automation to your workflow. It is easy to program, and even easier to use on the manual settings."

"These instruments work incredibly well for our cell line generation platform efforts. They are easy to use in a manual fashion but have the added benefit of simple programming for more automated functions as well as that awesome flexibility of multiple heads per instrument. Since they are very easy to decontaminate and share among multiple tissue culture suites, they may be the most valuable automation addition in recent years."

"We use the Viaflo96 for all of our cellular biomarker testing. The instrument is used on a daily basis, and we rely on the automated pipetting features for most of our applications. The reliability and ease of use of the Viaflo96 has been critical to the development, validation and implementation of our cellular, functional assays. We purchased a second head for the instrument as a backup due to the critical importance of this device in our daily operations."

"The pipette was super easy to use and take care of. The customer service was awesome as well! We are thinking of getting more for the new science building that we are building."

"It is easy to use and there is no impediment in using them at all they come with full guidelines. One of the multiple aspects of the VIAFLO equipment is that you can use it before and after each experience, without taking extra time to wait for it to cool down."

"The 96well Viaflo is very nice. We had some issues at the beginning but customer service was great and now it works really well. We use it a lot and it holds up well."

"Works with organic solvents/mixtures in a bioanalytical environment. Mainly used for non-quantitative transfers of organic solvents/mixtures. Custom programs for different assays are a great feature: easy and fast to program, great for method development and sample analysis phase."

"This is so much faster for our high throughput needs. The multi dispensing in 384-well format is the best thing ever made. It's so fast and efficient. I also recommend it if you don't want any mistakes in moving from 96-well to 384-well."

"This pipette is very easy to use and saves a lot of time compared to manual transfer. Service is very helpful and offered help and suggestions before they arrived to fix problem."