laminating table

[Stormy Conner]

We have a rolling laminating table that works okay on prints that it on the table but longer prints that are bigger than the table I honestly don't know how to laminate. I read a post on here where someone said that you move it, but how? I tried once and wrinkled like crazy. Can anyone direct me to an instruction video or something? I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

 

[JBurton]

Do you have a traditional roll to roll laminator as well?

 

[dypinc]

I can understand using a laminating table for some work, but roll to roll laminator you can do everything with so a table should be your second laminator unless you are so specialized that you would on need the table.

 

[Stormy Conner]

Do you have a traditional roll to roll laminator as well?

no all we have is the rolling table

 

[Stormy Conner]

I can understand using a laminating table for some work, but roll to roll laminator you can do everything with so a table should be your second laminator unless you are so specialized that you would on need the table.

i agree but i am not the boss at this job. I have no control or say on what equipment we can buy. I am lowly peon doing what I can with what I have.

 

[dypinc]

i agree but i am not the boss at this job. I have no control or say on what equipment we can buy. I am lowly peon doing what I can with what I have.

So he expects you to do a job on a machine it wasn't designed to do that job?

 

[Splash0321]

It’s a two person job. If you have a lamination table that has a moving gantry you just need to laminate the length you can, then have someone move the substrate while someone else moves the gantry…simultaneously and together with enough tension to keep any wrinkles from occurring.

Like everyone else is saying, it’s not made for that kind of work. I also only have a lamination table and seldomly am faced with what you are describing. I make it work but hate those jobs.

 

[ozzie2433]

We have a rolling laminating table that works okay on prints that it on the table but longer prints that are bigger than the table I honestly don't know how to laminate. I read a post on here where someone said that you move it, but how? I tried once and wrinkled like crazy. Can anyone direct me to an instruction video or something? I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

What MFG table do you have?

 

[somcalmetim]

It’s a two person job. If you have a lamination table that has a moving gantry you just need to laminate the length you can, then have someone move the substrate while someone else moves the gantry…simultaneously and together with enough tension to keep any wrinkles from occurring.

Like everyone else is saying, it’s not made for that kind of work. I also only have a lamination table and seldomly am faced with what you are describing. I make it work but hate those jobs.

Sounds like a special level of hell...they are super useful for signs but those tables should have a bottom roller mounted on one end for r2r...

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Semantics here but they should really be called and sold as a mounting table. They really suck at film lamination but are great for mounting SAV to substrates

 

[JBurton]

Semantics here but they should really be called and sold as a mounting table. They really suck at film lamination but are great for mounting SAV to substrates

I'm partial to application table. Gives the boss just enough straw to grasp at, 'So, just apply the laminate!'
Or app table, for the gen zed kids.

 

[Humble PM]

Or app table, for the gen zed kids.

Perhaps a diminuative someone called Robert could pursuade the boss to lift to an R2R.
Gratuitous link

 

[JBurton]

Perhaps a diminuative someone called Robert could pursuade the boss to lift to an R2R.
Gratuitous link

My kids have awesome names, and my wife is the coolest for letting me choose whatever I like for each, but for one, she was inspired by star trek, and wanted to spell it with an apostrophe. We talked for so long on it, I kept saying please no, she wanted to be different, and finally I pulled up an image of a scantron sheet, and showed her the lack of apostrophes, and that dooming her to years of tracking down lost or missing documentation wasn't worth having an awesome name. So instead she's named after a Roman goddess...

 

[Stormy Conner]

It’s a two person job. If you have a lamination table that has a moving gantry you just need to laminate the length you can, then have someone move the substrate while someone else moves the gantry…simultaneously and together with enough tension to keep any wrinkles from occurring.

Like everyone else is saying, it’s not made for that kind of work. I also only have a lamination table and seldomly am faced with what you are describing. I make it work but hate those jobs.

Thank you

 

[Stormy Conner]

What MFG table do you have?

 

[Stormy Conner]

What MFG table do you have?