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  • Dry wipe boards – Vinyl or laminate

    Posted by Mike Thornley on 30 April 2019 at 12:12

    We have an order to produce a results board at 2m x 1m, the artwork contains empty tables for client to fill in etc, we plan to print the template etc.

    Anyone recommends a dry wipe vinyl or laminate or in fact a method of doing this.

    Thanks

    Carl Morton replied 6 years, 5 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
  • 8 Replies
  • Jamie Wood

    Member
    30 April 2019 at 13:39

    I’d print it, then apply dry wipe lam. We get ours from Pyramid – Simply Dry Wipe.

  • Jean Oakley

    Member
    30 April 2019 at 14:16

    I would do the same as Chris, print then apply dry wipe laminate. Have fun its like cling film :yikes:

  • Colin Crabb

    Member
    30 April 2019 at 16:31

    Print & dry wipe lam’

    We use the Metamark drywipe lamination (MD 205, 25micron)- and yes its thin & fun! If your laminator has hot top roller… don’t use it, makes it even worse 👿

    There is a second Metamark Dry wipe laminate, MD206, which is 100micron… much easier to fit.. BUT twice the price.

  • Luke Culpin

    Member
    30 April 2019 at 17:29

    We find dry wipe laminates from most suppliers to be really expensive, however take a look at Dorotape – they do a laminate called dry wipe film, 1300 wide, 100m for £247 +vat, which is an incredible price compared to most! Never had any complaints

  • Glenn Sharp

    Member
    1 May 2019 at 07:04

    can dry wipe lam be applied without a laminator ?

    can it be applied wet ?

  • Jean Oakley

    Member
    1 May 2019 at 08:27

    TIP FOR FITTING
    we use a stripe of vinyl or tape apx 2" wide and fit along the leading edge of the drywipe. It gives us much more rigidity to the fitting process. Once thats gone though your laminator you should be ok.

    I would never attempt to fit without a laminator unless it was a small job and i dont think water would be a good idea but i could be wrong good luck

  • Jamie Wood

    Member
    1 May 2019 at 08:32

    We always use a laminator. The Pyramid one is thicker than most of the other ones, so a lot easier to handle, plus it’s quite a bit cheaper.

  • Carl Morton

    Member
    2 May 2019 at 05:30

    We do lots of these, try colourbyte for the drywipe laminate it’s around £140 for 100m x 1370mm

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