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This is easy for me to say as I'm not the one who has to purchase the laminator (as I sell them), but getting the right laminator will make your life so much easier and will also make you more money. I've always sold Seal and Kala laminators and I avoid any of the Asian laminators. While the...
Synaps from Nekoosa is the best. In Canada you can get it from Trek Hall. It lays perfectly flat, is latex approved, and prints and performs beautifully. Priced great as well.
The Colorado is amazingly consistent....but anything with permanent heads (solvent or UV) will give you more consistent solid colors than a consumable head will. I've sold some major wall covering jobs over the years and many of them fell into my lap because someone had latex and couldn't...
I've got nearly identical technology from Fluid Color. They do final assembly and customize the units in Cincinnati. Kyricera print heads and linear motor drives for speed. Want to see one run? Pricing is also slightly better.
I can't quite make out the middle parts of your sticker....but usually when the top and bottom of a print are peeling but not the sides then it can be a result of too much tension on the laminator. The sides of the stickers look well adhered. We're the stickers laying flat before installation...
You don't need a technical laminate for that job. Just a solid polymeric calendared. We've got a great 5 year (much longer indoors) laminate in matte, luster, and gloss. 54"x150' rolls are $260.87 and coated for us by Drytac in Toronto. Great film. We mostly stock the matte finish so it...
I sell at ton of Synaps...I believe we are the largest distributor of Synaps rolls in the country. The product has built in profiles available right on the printer. It is slow due to the heat, though.
What I've found is you need to use papers which have some aspects of latex saturation...
I'd recommend a thick product like Walk&Wall which you could 'bridge' the grout lines and make the wall look pretty flat/smooth again. It would reduce your installation time by a ton. Low glare surface looks really good as well. If you provide a UPS or FedEx number I can get you a small test...
Here it is: https://csa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/csa/support/large-format-color-profiles You have to select the M series and which RIP you are using and then you'll see the three Lintec profiles I had them approve and build.
I'll say one more thing....the only real innovation in laminating in the last 20 years has come from Kala. They have the only system which self-levels the nip. You can run 150 feet of laminate perfectly straight...the take-up looks like a factory-cut roll. If you notice the material is...
Do yourself a favor and spend the money on a good laminator. Nothing other than Kala or Seal should be considered. I've sold thousands of laminators in my career and the vast majority of them are still running everyday, all day. Nobody wants to spend $10K-$16K on a laminator but when you...
The Roland is a great device, but holy slow. We've sold many of them but usually to in-house corporate shops who want to make mock-ups of boxes/packaging/proofs etc. The good news is that the Handtop units are pretty easy to fix and a lot of the parts are designed for snap-in-snap-out...
I used to distribute the CET machines.....the service aspect lacks quite a bit. While I haven't distributed their printers in a few years, one of the main reasons we stopped was due to turnover and inconsistencies in their service people and ability to get parts.
We moved over to Fluid Color...
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