Squeeze Roller - getting wrinkles

Try working in the center of the roller. Some of those are slightly crowned in the center and will cause wrinkles if you're working at the edge of the table.

Good Luck,

 

make sure you put your app tape on as soon as you have weed anything, the longer you leave it the worst it can get.

 

I find this odd, I will often plot and weed same day, but if I know the install is not for several days, I'll opt to lay the vinyl flat somewhere until install day. It keeps my premask from absorbing too much moisture and beginning to tent in areas. Most of my cut stuff is on 3m cast with the clear backing, so maybe this is more of a paper liner kind of difference?

 

we have had our application table for 4+ years, 6m long. we always had this problem with application tapes, I was told this year it was all to do with the liner, once the vinyl waste has been removed, the vinyl can change the way lies on the release liner so tape as soon as you can, and also do relief cuts between weeding boards if possible

 

Why not just apply it by hand it doesn't take much longer and comes out just as nice.

When is the last time you replaced the rubber on your squeeze roller? We replace rubber on our laminators and application tables every other year basically. Because of this. Especially on the squeeze rollers. When the edges of your aluminum are constantly falling off the edge and bumping back over top of the aluminum the top rubber roller tends to get worn down. Also the aluminum base roller on the highway rollers is really not ideal for laminating sheeting or putting transfer tape on. These are made more for making aluminum signs.

 

Oh, I am an idiot and didn't think about how that applies to the table. I don't have one of these, just a regular laminator, and had the worst experience trying to mask with the laminator and haven't bothered to try since. It was like I put too much tension on the mask so the adhesion was lower than normal and the letters half adhered and half did not to the premask.
I can see the desire to premask by machine if you are doing hundreds of feet a day.