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Struggling to laminate in this heat…
Anyone else struggling to laminate in this heat?
I’m trying to print a wrap on 3m IJ180, the laminate is a pig at the best of times but today… I must have binned 6m of lam and two prints so far. just stretching and sticking to everything bar what it should. now think I’ll have to order more to finish the job.
Is it just me?
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make that about 10mtr lam and 7m reprints,
just can’t seem to get it right, just when we think we’ve sussed it, the wrap film starts bunching in the centre of the laminator and chucking bubbles in there. have done the paper test etc…
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Oh is that the laminate with the clear backing paper?..Thats a nightmare to use even when cold! :shocked:
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quote Simon Worrall:Oh is that the laminate with the clear backing paper?..Thats a nightmare to use even when cold! :shocked:
yes, exactly!!
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That happens me every time I switch the heater on on ours 🙁
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quote David Stevenson:That happens me every time I switch the heater on on ours 🙁
I never use the heater, tried it a couple of times early on and soon decided that it wasn’t for me!!
However, it does transpire that while my tension -well.. the roller’s tention, was perfect, I had the rear take-up and top waste pick up way too tight, I thought the point of the springy thing was to tighten up to.. apparently not! That dealt with some of the issues nicely.
Ulitmately I laminated 15m in one run with no problems at all, roll to roll, prior to that I was doing a few mtrs at a time so the wrap helper had something to get on with.. after a disastrous tuesday, wednesday was awesome!
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Never touched the springy, windy up, thingy on our takeup or waste takeup… perhaps I should :rollseyes:
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quote David Hammond:Never touched the springy, windy up, thingy on our takeup or waste takeup… perhaps I should :rollseyes:
they should be set very loose so they don’t pul on the media or laminate, which can be a cause of the wave effect in the material as it feeds.
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Ahhh. I think I messed with it weeks ago. Turned out the rollers needed balancing I’ll slacken them off tomorrow.
How much tension do you put on the roll?
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I think your able to basically pull it through with your tongue. Should be super loose is what I have been told.
My lads don’t believe me. And when I go away tighten it up. Never ends well.
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We have an easy mount laminator and we’re told to lower the top roller until the wheel at the side goes loose. When this happens you then turn it another 1/4 turn.
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We have an easy mount too.
Laminators are the devils work, and require mystical, mythical wizardry to get them to work.
Unless the stars are aligned, there was a full moon the night before, and the winds blowing in a south westerly direction at 3 knots, theres no guarantee it will work :puppyeyes:
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Think is down to the laminator, in the past would struggle to laminate couple of meters but since the new laminator been purchased can’t get enough of laminating as its never an issue now here regardless of the temperature. Can’t actually wait to do some roll to roll decent length now and then onto the cutter to get it cut.
Laminating before was always a job that I hated where now can’t wait for orders that require laminating.
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