At Lamination System we can laminate just about anything, however there are some things that are not suitable to laminate.
Items printed on thermal paper, like concert and movie tickets are not suitable to be laminated because they will turn black when laminated.
We also generally recommend that collectible or valuable items not be laminated, because laminating is permanent and once something is laminated, it cannot be undone.
While our experienced team take every effort to ensure a good result, we cannot guarantee it. Laminating is a tricky business and there can be issues such as creasing, bubbling, folding or warping.
Lamination is the ideal solution to prolong the life of your print or poster by protecting it from fading, tearing, dirt, fingerprints, moisture and other contaminants.
Laminating is also a cost effective way to protect maps, drawings, aeronautical and nautical charts, the output from pen plotters, posters - in fact, just about anything.
At Lamination System, we laminate from wallet size cards through to 1600mm wide posters. We laminate with gloss, matt and extra heavy duty films.
Framing can be costly and is not always the best option.
Consider laminating as an affordable way to protect and prolong the life of your documents today.
Contact us Lamination System and let our expert team laminate them for you.
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Wishing all of our friends, customers and suppliers a
Happy Chinese New Year.
Good luck for this Monkey year.
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With technology constantly changing and finishing struggling to keep up, we have established four key points in gaining the best adhesion possible to all digital print.
Machinery:
In order to gain sufficient heat and pressure to stick to your digital output, it is essential your celloglazing machine has a large diameter chromed heating roller (as seen on the MiniBond 380, MiniBond 520 and SAB-35). The larger the diameter of the chrome roller, the greater the contact area is and the faster you can laminate. To gain speed from this process your machine must also have compressed air.
Temperature:
Finding the perfect temperature for laminating is trial and error, as all machines vary slightly in calibration and all films vary in processing temperatures.
Ensure your machine has sufficient warm up time which for most desktop laminators is around 20-30 minutes. The temperature needs to be between 110 C and 120 C and always sacrifice the 3rd sheet to test adhesion by scoring and roughly cutting at the surface.You may need to increase the temperature slightly while you are running your job, as constantly laminating will draw heat out of the machine. Just remember to reduce the temperature again when you are finished!
If the machine is too hot, the film will crease and shrink towards the centre. Turn it down a little, wait 10 minutes for it to respond and start again.
Speed:
As a rule, digital output needs to be laminated at slow speed. The heavier the toner, the slower the processing speed. With the only exception being a machine with a large diameter, chromed heating roller and compressed air as mentioned above.If you increase or alter your speed while laminating, always remember to re-check the adhesion level. It may seem time consuming to laminate digital print properly, however it saves time in the long run by not having to reprocess or reprint your job!
Film:
Probably the most important point: different digital print requires different film.
Establishing your output will determine the best film for the job, or when in doubt, do as we do and just run our Premium Digital BOPP as we know it sticks to everything!
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Welcome to 2016 everyone! We hope you all enjoyed the holiday season and took some time to relax.
We are officially back in the office today and have resumed normal operating hours:
Factory hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday to Friday
Office hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday
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12pm Wednesday 23rd December 2015
to
8:30am Monday 4th January 2016
If you have any urgent enquiries during this time, please contact us on (08) 8374 2177
We would once again like to thank all of you for your continued support throughout 2015 and we hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday period. See you in the New Year!
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