Having an issue with the laminator

[Jean Oakley]

I usually peel about 3" of backing paper away from the laminate and fold it back with a nice sharpe crease lay the laminate over the print and using a long 1mt ruler slide it from the left to the right over the laminate/print and the laminate thats free should be nicely and evenly applied. Put this into your laminator and then carry on as you usually do.

[David Gwyndaf Povah]

i cut off the size i need with abit of bleed and mount it as i would vinyl if it ever plays up this way i dont have any waste either

dave

[David Stevenson]

quote Daniel Evans:

Afternoon all

Hope you’re having a better day than me.

Trying to load my laminator for a job that needs doing this afternoon and I’m having issues.

Normally when I load it, I pull it over the top roller giving myself about 10 inches to play with, I then use my slitter to trim the backing paper allowing up to 10 inches to feed through the laminator,once that’s started I pull the backing paper off where I slit it and attach it to the catchment roll.

I now have about 5-6 inches fed through the laminator (I use a bit of 6 inch x 1500mm correx board to put it through evenly)

Once the correx bard has gone through about 4-5 inches, I attach my print to the board and let it go.

This has worked fine for me although I hate loading it every time.

The issue today is that the laminate is really thin and my backing paper slitter is getting stuck to the laminate, I’ve tried different slitters but I can’t get it done.

Does anyone have a better way of loading their laminator?

I’ve had the same problem with the thin laminate. I’ve ended up spraying my slitter with water then slitting what I can before taking it out and wetting it again. Takes a while to get it slit but thankfully don’t use that laminate very often

[Daniel Evans]

quote Jean Oakley:

I usually peel about 3″ of backing paper away from the laminate and fold it back with a nice sharpe crease lay the laminate over the print and using a long 1mt ruler slide it from the left to the right over the laminate/print and the laminate thats free should be nicely and evenly applied. Put this into your laminator and then carry on as you usually do.

Jean any chance of a video?

I managed to get it done but wasted at least a metre if not 2.

I might try spraying the slitter with water as suggested but I hate loading the laminator, I really do.

[Kev Mayger]

Hi

Take the laminate and hold it against the take up roll. This is when you remove the laminate from the backing liner and tape the liner to the take up. Apply a bit of tension to the laminate roll and take 10" of laminate down onto the feed table
(adhesive facing you) gently push the laminate towards the rollers. Use a feeder sheet of 5mm foamex, place this onto the adhesive and push between the rollers until it becomes tight on the laminate. Drop the rollers and your ready to go.

Kev

[George Neagu]

quote Daniel Evans:

Afternoon all

Hope you’re having a better day than me.

Trying to load my laminator for a job that needs doing this afternoon and I’m having issues.

Normally when I load it, I pull it over the top roller giving myself about 10 inches to play with, I then use my slitter to trim the backing paper allowing up to 10 inches to feed through the laminator,once that’s started I pull the backing paper off where I slit it and attach it to the catchment roll.

I now have about 5-6 inches fed through the laminator (I use a bit of 6 inch x 1500mm correx board to put it through evenly)

Once the correx bard has gone through about 4-5 inches, I attach my print to the board and let it go.

This has worked fine for me although I hate loading it every time.

The issue today is that the laminate is really thin and my backing paper slitter is getting stuck to the laminate, I’ve tried different slitters but I can’t get it done.

Does anyone have a better way of loading their laminator?

It’s usually very simple but I assume it depends what machine you have.
This is an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlr-a–zDG8

On top of that I use a head board, same size as the lam roll and 2-300mm wide, rigid but not correx. Correx is too soft, changes its shape and causes wrinkles. Use foamex or acrylic, thinnest you have 2-3mm ideally. Make sure is cut perfect straight. Feed that first, nice and neat, with the top roll slightly up so the board goes freely through the rollers.

Keep searching YouTube, there’s plenty videos with different methods.