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can anyone advise me with cold laminating set up please?
Not sure if this is the right place to post so please move if ness
OK you knew it would be coming!!
I had a really nice laminator turn uptoday which looks great an is very well made, after reading the instruction book which was not much good I set the lam on the rollers and got this fed through well, took 3 hours before I found out a plastic safety cover can be removed giving me so much more room.
The books no help regarding do you guys feed a leader into the laminator before you put your print in i.e run that through and then feed the print in ?
When you coming to the end of your print do you cut the lam to stop it getting stuck to the roller or insert another scrap to allow the next print to be fed in.I have seen great results with no bubbles or any major probs other than any help on making sure the prints not going to run off.
Also using the high gloss lam I have no silvering which is great its just the loading that I want to see how you guys cope, say you have 10 prints all separate ?Rich
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basically yes Rich feeder to start and end so you are set for the next time
Lynn
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Hi Richard
I find that using scraps of old paper as leaders is a really useful thing, it saves you grief all the time when leaving the machine webbed up, I always web with a spare leader which is wider than the lam – this allows a sticky free operation in the critical first moments 😉
When we do a run we usually keep them on the roll and lam them all in one go – we’ve made a roll hanger for the front side of the in-tray which keeps the print up off the floor (even in a feed box they get crappy)… we’ve found thats the way to save laminate – however its a good idea to leave some gap between prints for ‘manual adjustment’ purposes!
Must admit though that I now use 2 laminators simply so I can leave one webbed up with a popular lam/mount film combination and the wider machine for mounting and specialist lam film. Greedy but nice 🙂
Oo
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Thanks for the tips any help on alignment ?
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quote Richard Urquhart:Thanks for the tips any help on alignment ?
If you mean – to get the print straight (and keeping straight) through the rollers then there is a simple method which is almost guaranteed to work every time – its free and easy too.
a) Get a piece of masking tape and run it at 90 degrees to the rollers over the input tray, get a t square and mark lines on the tape as guides – this is a rough starter for 10..
b) Always always always trim the leading edge of the print to 90 degrees of the length – ie: straight! Then when approaching the rollers you can visually be certain its going in square – use the vision lines on the tape to check and monitor progress through (like on a cutter).
If you are stopping between prints the other advantage of a straight leading edge is that you can work up to the nip of the rollers and ‘feel’ it going in square.
Start slow, work up to speed.
Oo
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Ok things going well getting this under control now. I was using scraps and the leading edge was cut by hand now I’m running prints to laminate the roland as you know trims the print when finished leaving a nice stright edge, now the print goes in correct and is working a treat very pleased with results, and no more wet bench !!!
Just need a new workshop to go with it as space is running out, thanks for your help with this as I was so unsure about the leader thing, its easy when your told how !!!
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Don’t talk to me about workshops! We just expanded in order to fit our kit in and its almost full now!
Oo
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What laminator did you get ? Iam still looking to get a new one
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I got a good deal on a easy mount 880 great bit of kit very well made, rrp £1450 I paid £980 new with free delivery
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