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It is a real pain. I think the slitters were there last year when I spoke to the Kala rep. It would save a ton of time, so I would be willing to invest in a system that slits post laminate.

Most of our prints are either 47" or 53" and we would try to do >50% of rolls per run. How do the laminators work with laminate overhang? Our media can be 48" wide but the laminate we get isn't offered in that size unless we get the rolls pre-sliced, then we would have to change laminate rolls...

I got quoted between $15-16k USD approximately

The Lighting, anti-static, and the slitters would be a huge help. For us we have been manually trimming the edges on all of our prints, its not about how much waste we create, its about how we can manage it. I would hope we can figure out how to load our media straight lol. This is good to...

I have seen these around, my only issue is access to parts/techs, mostly. I can even see that they have models based on other brands. My off-brand laminators have done us well over the years no doubt, and I am sure these would be fine for the price. definitely something to keep in mind. *Me...

I loved seeing the Kalas at PU last year (and in 2019), the Mistral is on the list definitely (if it were solely up to me it'd be at the top). Unfortunately I would have to order from them directly or from a vendor in another city, and no techs are available locally for Kala products that I am...

Hey all, We are looking into buying a new laminator and applicator for our wide format products and while I am pretty certain of what I am looking for, I did want to put a thread up here in case I am missing something. We are replacing some older re-re-branded Chinese cold laminators that took...

We had a 52" stomp, .080 was almost impossible to cut. I put a good report together to get a hydraulic shear and it has saved us so much time (and if the CNC goes down, anxiety as well). Well worth the money and install. However if this is going in a garage I am not sure how realistic that...

The advice above really helped us out! Are you trying to through cut to shape? Or just kiss cut? We rarely see square decals at our shop, so we usually kiss cut the custom shape out, and do a "weeding" pass (path, contour, idk what it would be called) which adds a cut contour square around the...

Didn't want to leave this thread with no responses. We have done this in the past but it has been inconsistent and we cannot seem to find the perfect in between. We either have to work really hard at the work table popping and cutting the decals out or the decals fall out and the media gets...

We cut several materials, usually its between an intermediate sign vinyl Oracal 3641 or Reflective 5400, both laminated. So a bit thicker than everyday decals. Pressure is obviously different for different materials. Mostly why I was asking about the lengths. Our printer provided the settings...

Working on a large order of decals and it seems to be a constant struggle to get our through/weed/flex cuts fairly consistent. We are getting a lot of tiny "tabs" and ripped backing and it doesn't look the best (we do our best to clean them up and our customers usually don't care, it's just...

Are you running a 10HP spindle?

This is kind of what i thought! We have some clean work coming out of our cnc room with some minor adjustments at the moment but the gumming of the bits was always something of mention! Pins would be nice for making blanks or backers in our case. I am still daydreaming of some of the machines...

I have heard of folks cutting face down, but how does one cut face down if the machine needs to read nodes printed on the face? Our application/mounting can be pretty good, but it's never perfect. We run into this issue (adhesive sticking to bits) often and would love to hear what others have...