Don't let the low price fool you!
... Will the big squeegee do the same work? I've seen the videos and heard nothing but positive comments about it but is seems like it has to have some limitations when compared to a roller laminator. Basically I want to mount and laminate prints up to about 54" wide. ...
The Big Squeegee will do an adequate job for a small shop. My customers have often told me that they have fewer ruined prints with the Big Squeegee as with low end laminators.
There are some that accept the limitations at a lower level than others. Limitations are what you make them. If you spent as much time working out the limitations as you would on the adjustments and learning the operation of a roll laminator, the limitations would be less than that of the roll laminator. There are many that would argue that roll laminators are so much easier to use. I wonder if they stopped to think about how much
extra work they would have to do to make that job easier.
Yes, it is quite common to laminate a 54 inch print with the Big Squeegee. If you do move beyond what you feel comfortable with for the Big Squeegee, you will still be able to use it for the small jobs or for the jobs that require rewebing to get the right laminate. It is far easier to use the Big Squeegee than to reweb the laminator twice(one to get what you want and one to put it back to the other laminate). It also saves on materials when a reweb is avoided.
Why would you want a roll laminator instead of the Big Squeegee? When you are printing many prints that need laminating in a long roll and do so consistently. If you do this kind of job occasionally then you can still do it with the Big Squeegee.
Why would you want a Big Squeegee instead of a roll laminator? This could be a book.
The Big Squeegee is small and can go anywhere you need it. Can you use a roll laminator to put vinyl on store windows or car doors? The limits of the Big Squeegee are far less than a roll laminator.
Why pay out the big bucks for an occasional large job? Use the money you save to buy a fishing license and go fishing. After all, you won't have to work quite so hard to pay for all that equipment.
Okay, so I got a little long winded here. Where are all my customers when I need them? Maybe they went fishing.
