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What laminator and why?
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Circleville Signs
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Yeah - there are so many variables in play. If you are a decent sized shop, and just laminating an average amount of material (say 200sf/day or less), then a Royal Sovereign is definitely what I'd recommend.
If you are doing high volume, then you gotta go Seal pro w/heat assist and get the roll to roll option.
If you are doing high volume, then you gotta go Seal pro w/heat assist and get the roll to roll option.
petesign
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^^ Yes, I'd have gone with the SEAL 54el, but it didnt have a take up roll, that's the best feature on the RS. Set it, and let that sucker burn through 100' of prints at a time. It's all self-contained... so you dont have to let it run down the production table rolling it as you go.
After owning a RS and currently owning a Seal - I would much rather have the Seal.
Both models were 54" and I constantly had problems keeping consistant even tension across the rollers with the RS - ruining a lot of prints with creases. So far (2 months) this has not been an issue with the Seal.
The only feature I liked more with the RS was that it had a track mounted razor on the back that made it easier to cut the printed material off the roll when it was done... but the agony of watching prints get ruined and time and money wasted isn't worth that feature alone.
...oh yeah, the take up real was another feature of the RS, but to be honest I never trusted the machine to run long enough jobs (beyond 8 feet) that would really utilize it.
Both models were 54" and I constantly had problems keeping consistant even tension across the rollers with the RS - ruining a lot of prints with creases. So far (2 months) this has not been an issue with the Seal.
The only feature I liked more with the RS was that it had a track mounted razor on the back that made it easier to cut the printed material off the roll when it was done... but the agony of watching prints get ruined and time and money wasted isn't worth that feature alone.
...oh yeah, the take up real was another feature of the RS, but to be honest I never trusted the machine to run long enough jobs (beyond 8 feet) that would really utilize it.
I had a rep show me a good way to web it and use less material.. If you send the laminate w/ liner through the roller and get good tension, you can slide something (I use the back of a pair of scissors) across the lining so that you cut the lining only and not the laminate. Then you run advance the rollers, peeling the liner back and tapr it to the reel.
I find I only need to use about 6-8" of material to be have it ready to roll.
I find I only need to use about 6-8" of material to be have it ready to roll.
Circleville Signs
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That's because you sled everything
So do I. As a matter of fact, I dont' just start the sled, I always have a piece of coro running underneath the entire job.
Terremoto
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+1 Dasnootz
I'm with Dasnootz as far as the RS is concerned - no experience with a Seal.
Ours is a real crap shoot as to whether or not it's going to destroy a job. We've had the covers off the thing trying to get the tension set and I have to say that what I've seen of the innards it's not that well made.
As for the design and engineering of the RS I would have to say that there's plenty of room for improvement.
Just my 2 cents worth but my experience with the RS hasn't been that great.
Dan
I'm with Dasnootz as far as the RS is concerned - no experience with a Seal.
Ours is a real crap shoot as to whether or not it's going to destroy a job. We've had the covers off the thing trying to get the tension set and I have to say that what I've seen of the innards it's not that well made.
As for the design and engineering of the RS I would have to say that there's plenty of room for improvement.
Just my 2 cents worth but my experience with the RS hasn't been that great.
Dan
+1 , use a pair of tweezers, close the ends, scribe the paper, then open them and use to peel the paper back.
petesign
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How do you do this exactly? Just keep switching 4x8' panels out under the prints as they roll through?That's because you sled everything
So do I. As a matter of fact, I dont' just start the sled, I always have a piece of coro running underneath the entire job.
What's the model # on your RS?
These are the two models in our range so one of these machines will be the one. I will get a chance to us both next weekend and I hope that makes the decision easier.