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Laminating advice
Hi Everyone. We are about to produce a small hoarding, made up of digitally printed 8×4 di-bond panels. I would like to know if anyone has any advice regarding mounting the prints onto the di-bond panels.
We have a 5ft wide cold laminator, so will be running the 4ft edge of the panel through, and are a bit concerned about the print running out of line over the course of the 8ft length.
There are images on the hoarding that have to go over the joins of the panels, so we need to make sure everything lines up correctly.
Any advice on keeping the print on line whilst laminating?
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4 Replies
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Someone is bound to suggest the ezy-taper. Maybe not…
Either way, if it is only small and lining it up is the most important factor on this job, I would be more inclinded to put a couple of blokes on it for a day and wet apply the graphics the ole’ fashioned way. At very least you will line the prints up, which might be a big ask on your average laminator, well in my experience anyway. Maybe I just never got the hang of it?
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The easy thing is applying it on a laminator, the hard bit is getting it to match up spot on. Done it by machine and hand and would say that applying by hand has a better success rate!
Why take the risk and have to reprint again!
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Start them by hand and then use rollers or something.
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I’ve done this on the ezytaper, but you can do it on any laminator I’d reckon.
Start from the middle and work out to the edge, then turn it around, and do the second half.
Less chance it goes off line. Its easy with the ezytaper as you can seperate the rollers and slide it through. Might be a bit harder on a traditional laminator, but not impossible.
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