eforer
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Hi Guys,
I'm doing a run of custom cabinets for a retail install. The laminate doors are giving me some trouble. Printing them on my Jeti 3150, print looks great, but the adhesion isn't great. I initially just slammed them through our laminator with a 5mil embossed vinyl laminate, but the laminate can literally tear the print off as a continuous sheet. The adhesion almost reminds me of trying to stick vinyl to polyethylene plastics, it sticks but has no hold. I have a couple of thoughts:
Sanding, never tried this on anything that we UV printed to, but also never had a reason to. I doubt it will help, but anyone have any experience with this?
Bar top epoxy. I bought a few gallons of this stuff from jgreer to use on some printed countertops. The color density is pretty high on the print we are doing on these doors, but there might be enough area to allow the epoxy to bite the actual laminate. Another thought is that I could coat the doors in epoxy, print them, and coat them again.
Priming the doors with formica paint. There are special paints for formica, I wonder if I just hvlp the doors white with formica paint if I'll have something better to bite to with the print.
Adhesion promter, anything work?
Thoughts are always appreciated, thanks guys!
-Ed
I'm doing a run of custom cabinets for a retail install. The laminate doors are giving me some trouble. Printing them on my Jeti 3150, print looks great, but the adhesion isn't great. I initially just slammed them through our laminator with a 5mil embossed vinyl laminate, but the laminate can literally tear the print off as a continuous sheet. The adhesion almost reminds me of trying to stick vinyl to polyethylene plastics, it sticks but has no hold. I have a couple of thoughts:
Sanding, never tried this on anything that we UV printed to, but also never had a reason to. I doubt it will help, but anyone have any experience with this?
Bar top epoxy. I bought a few gallons of this stuff from jgreer to use on some printed countertops. The color density is pretty high on the print we are doing on these doors, but there might be enough area to allow the epoxy to bite the actual laminate. Another thought is that I could coat the doors in epoxy, print them, and coat them again.
Priming the doors with formica paint. There are special paints for formica, I wonder if I just hvlp the doors white with formica paint if I'll have something better to bite to with the print.
Adhesion promter, anything work?
Thoughts are always appreciated, thanks guys!
-Ed