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Laminating photo’s on to mdf – Jetmounter?
Hi
Need a bit of help, and this appears to be the best place I can find.
I produce personalised wall clocks. I want to expand our range by adding a wooden (mdf) clock, round about 12" in diameter, but this can be changed a bit if it needs to be.
The idea is for me to print a high quality colour clock face image (12") then i want to mount /laminate it on to the mdf backboard, with a hole through the centre for the shaft of the mechanism to come through for the fingers.
I want the photo itself to be protected by the laminate, possbily mat finish to bring out the image, then it has to be mounted on the round mdf board, but wrinkle free and secure so it does not peel off.
Looking around doing some homework i am thinking of a Jetmounter, there is one that does 12" in size,, manual or motor? not sure yet.
Volume will be lowish perhaps 5 a week, but hopefully rising over a short period of time. This size of volume puts me off the high financial outlay of a vacuum system, as well as the size, room is limited in my ‘workshop’.
I am confident some of you guys would use a Jetmounter and would like to ask your opinion on its suitability for what i want to do. Am I on the right track, or is there a better alternative.
Any help would be really helpful
Thanks for reading
Kind regards
Phil
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3 Replies
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for such small quantities and size, I would mount the clock faces by hand with a sqeegee, would take more time with a laminator.
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I’m not a fan of putting vinyl directly onto mdf to be honest, it has been talked about on the forum so try a search. Have you tried this by hand? Your not talking about large volume here so you could probably do the job just as easily by hand without a laminator.
A pressure sensitve film would be ok for this sort of work so no need for heat, try doing a search for machines as well as they get talked about on the forum quite a bit as well. Only thing I would say is that you would probably be better off with something slightly larger so your not operating on it’s limits all the time, you may also find once you have it you think of other things to use it for as well. -
Mount by hand, if it dust free you wont get any bumps, MDF is porous so you wont get any airbubble anyway.
Ref the Vacum system, if your only doing items up to 12", Make your own,a good vacum cleaner will suck through MDF
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