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Uniform Guardsman 1400b
Hi All,
I just got myself a Uniform Guardsman 1400. I did my first lam job and it was crap, bubbles everywhere. Had to print the job again.
Thing is I have it set up to lam gloss lam onto the vinyl, and I’m not using a board to feed it through. When the rolls are screwed all the way down with the handles on the side, I can see see light through. So this means the rolls are not going down far enough.
Is there something wrong with the machine, or are all Guardsman like this and have to use a board to feed material through.
From Mark
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8 Replies
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so ur seeing ‘daylight’ through the rollers when they are squeezed. On our ‘different’ laminate, we don’t see daylight and we use a board to lead the print into the machine, then once passed the board we squeez down to 0mm and then let it go thru.
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Hi Dave,
Yes, I see daylight through when the rollers are put down. I’ll have to phone where I got it from for them to sort it.
I don’t want to use a board all the time to feed the prints through.
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the board is just for starting it, so width of print by about 100mm. This help to keep it straight and can be easier if your on your own. We then put it thru under 5mm setting then down to 0mm
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Don’t think mine is going down to 0mm. I looked through a gap with a torch, and looks like a washer has come loose, or maybe a bush of some sort that pushes down on the end of the roller to give it some pressure.
Still a job for the company that sold it to me. And me with loads of laminating to get done. Not lot only was the machine delivered nearly two days late and now this happens.
Typical. Think I’ll stop the cheaque till its sorted.
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Not that I have a laminator per se…more of a glorified CCR (Cheap Chinese Rollers) masquerading as a cold laminator, but if you screw down the rollers all the way tight you WILL get a rubbish result as you are bowing the rollers. Just resting the top & bottom rollers onto each other so as to just take off the weight with NO added tension gives absolutely perfect results with just vinyl & a laminate – no need for boards, which would be pretty useless on anything longer than 3m or so anyway!
Dave
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vinyl is barely 1mm thick, so screwing them down to 0 makes no odds… its when u use thicker substrates it will bow as u describe.
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Any laminator does not have to be screwed down tight. Just pinch the rollers so it grips the material and does not slide then a fraction more. It does not matter if you can see light.
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Hi guys,
Thanks to all your replies. I’ve taken the side off the machine this morning, and oh my god, what a mess inside, washers everywhere. The washers are used to press the roller down with pressure. No wounder the bloody thing doesn’t work. Can’t wait til Monday morning when I phone the company that sold it to me. I’m going to tear them a new arse hole.
I will also make them pay for the jobs the machine screwed up and had to re-print them and laminated and mounted by hand. It’ll be cheaper for them to bloody give me the machine for free in the end lol
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