Question UV Roll To Roll Printer

[freshprints]

Looking to add a UV-LED roll to roll printer to my shop. My only question is about laminating UV inks. I sell a lot of smaller decals (1"-8") and from what I have heard UV inks would require heat assisted lamination. Is that accurate or will cold roll lamination work too?

 

[balstestrat]

Which printer are you considering?
You might see more silvering without any heat and might even need special UV laminate with more glue.

 

[freshprints]

Which printer are you considering?
You might see more silvering without any heat and might even need special UV laminate with more glue.

Ive been looking at the Mimaki UCJV

 

[Snydo]

I run a 1640 Colorado and we cold laminate the prints. Standard lam is fine but you do get some haloing around small text elements but it's still perfectly readable, a heat-assisted laminator is supposed to fix this issue.

 

[Bly]

Most decals from our Colorado don't need laminate.
There's a couple of UV specific laminates if you think you really need to.

 

[Pauly]

I’ve played with cold lam on uv inks.
There’s special
Uv lam that’s cheaper.
Or thin cast but that gets expensive