Help recommend a laminator for small decals and signs?

[Denise Goodfellow]

We bought ours from an auction site, they do various lengths. Ours is 1500 wide I think it cost £600 3 years ago.
We bought it to replace a much costly machine that never preformed properly.

[Stephen Morriss]

Sorry to hyjack this thread

I presume it’s one of the simple ones with red rollers and blue casing found on a popular auction site?
How do you find it?
I can’t see how the laminate roll is meant to be held, there seems to be a holder for a roll of print but it doesn’t have anything to stop sideways movement.

Steve

[Denise Goodfellow]

quote Stephen Morriss:

Sorry to hyjack this thread

I presume it’s one of the simple ones with red rollers and blue casing found on a popular auction site?
How do you find it?
I can’t see how the laminate roll is meant to be held, there seems to be a holder for a roll of print but it doesn’t have anything to stop sideways movement.

Steve

Steve – yes the same apart from the colour.

There are brackets that fit on the legs the laminate sits there and is fed upwards. But my hubby made simple brackets for the top for a top feed. There’s no take up the finished laminated material just feeds on the floor.

Tbh, I prefer to cut the laminate off the roll, hinge it onto the vinyl using masking tape and feed in like that.

The pressure is via two simple screws on the top, just have to find the pinch point then turn another half turn.

As said before we bought another laminator costing £3000, we had it set up upon by the seller, it never preformed well. We used the roller from it to make a roller applicator in the end.

Over all the cheap laminator I believe is worth the money, if you have a lot to do, then it’ll soon backlog work.

Denise x

[Stephen Morriss]

Good to know, I’ve been using a very good laminator that would have been 5k new but it’s a bit narrow at only 1040mm max width, fine for 760 prints but no good for 1370mm prints and I’m getting fet up of having to mess around cutting bits of the roll to laminate within the width of the current laminator.

So the rollers manage to nip properly over the full width then?

Steve

[Denise Goodfellow]

quote Stephen Morriss:

Good to know, I’ve been using a very good laminator that would have been 5k new but it’s a bit narrow at only 1040mm max width, fine for 760 prints but no good for 1370mm prints and I’m getting fet up of having to mess around cutting bits of the roll to laminate within the width of the current laminator.

So the rollers manage to nip properly over the full width then?

Steve

Yes fine, the only errors have been human…..

[Stephen Morriss]

quote Denise Goodfellow:

Yes fine, the only errors have been human…..

Ha, aren’t they always 😉

Steve