Artic Laminator Bottom supply shaft

We have a GBC Arctic Titan 165. I dont see why you could not do so. Just load a second roll of laminate on the bottom - problem is for the adhesive side to face up you could not feed it over the lower stainless roller bar for the lower roll to feed over (it would have to run in over the feed table edge or direct to the lower rubber roller from under the feed table) and there is also no backing paper takeup for the lower roll.

Personally - I'd not try it as I'd feel like there is too much chance for wrinkles, on the few occasions we have needed to do full encapsulation we just laminate the first side, flip it and run it through again to laminate the back side.

 

Send my partner Harold an email, he used to be the Wide Format manager at GBC Canada.

Harold@theequipmentguy.ca

Craig

 

the bottom roll could be a sacrifice roll that goes through under the print and stops the laminate sticking to the rollers if it is bigger than the print...I'm building a second roll holder onto my duralam 60in as we speak...

 

My first large laminator was a hot laminator.
On hot laminators, the bottom could be laminate, or a mounting film with an adhesive back, etc....
With laminate top and bottom, you can "encapsulate" the print. (laminate top and bottom, and trimmed leaving about 1/4" of laminate all around to seal in the print)

Your cold laminator should do the same, but without heat.
Not sure why you would want to other than to encapsulate a paper print.
If you wanted to add an adhesive back, just use an already adhesive material.

Getting the tension set right top and bottom, and get both to run true to each other can be tricky.