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Craig Keller
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Looking for suggestions. You like it?
It is much better than the our old process: hand rolling. The Starlam is made by Maribu, I can coat 6 90 foot rolls of wall paper in an 8 hour day.
Things I like: fairly simple set up, speed, self winding.
Things I do not like or feel like could be better: Some of the clean up is a pain, I think some filters and connectors could have been placed in better/ more accessible spots or made with different mechanics because they're really hard to remove at times. All material requires a leader of 5 feet before your print and at least 3 feet as a footer after your prints, which feels somewhat wasteful. The pails the laminate comes in (5gal) can only be opened at the spout which makes it difficult to mix unless you have a 5gal paint shaker or a very non standard drill attachment.
But overall I have developed a lot of work arounds to compensate and it has relieved a ton of labor hours and persons from the insane task of cutting and hanging all our wall paper onto walls around the building and then hand rolling a coating on 2 to 3 times per each panel.
Things I like: fairly simple set up, speed, self winding.
Things I do not like or feel like could be better: Some of the clean up is a pain, I think some filters and connectors could have been placed in better/ more accessible spots or made with different mechanics because they're really hard to remove at times. All material requires a leader of 5 feet before your print and at least 3 feet as a footer after your prints, which feels somewhat wasteful. The pails the laminate comes in (5gal) can only be opened at the spout which makes it difficult to mix unless you have a 5gal paint shaker or a very non standard drill attachment.
But overall I have developed a lot of work arounds to compensate and it has relieved a ton of labor hours and persons from the insane task of cutting and hanging all our wall paper onto walls around the building and then hand rolling a coating on 2 to 3 times per each panel.
Craig Keller
New Member
Is there a bad clean up process?
MarkSnelling
Mark Snelling - Hasco Graphics
I sold dozens of 60 and 80" UV liquid laminators back in my Neschen days. They are very easy to operate and because they are UV curable liquids, the cleanup is not much at all. There is an operation in California making the units now and they came up with the very smart move of adding a heat lamp to relax the liquid coating after it was applied but before it gets cured for a perfectly smooth finish. Great move. The company is called Tec Lighting.
Its not really bad. If you have experience with paint sprayers its not that far off from cleaning those.
Step 1: empty of laminate
Step 2: run water through the machine
Step 3: empty machine of water
Step 4: remove filters, rinse filters, replace filters
step 5: optional, repeat step 2-3
VERY IMPORTANT: the applicator rod must be cleaned between each roll of material, if you allow the laminate to dry or cake onto this rod you ruin it and it is very expensive to replace.
The laminate for this machine is water solvable when still liquid but is extremely stubborn if you let it dry all the way, so it if gets on anything you do not want it on, you have to act fast with water. If it ends up in parts of the machine, roller bars, machine body ect and dries, it can be cleaned off with a lot of elbow grease and lacquer thinner (this works on metal, do not try on plastic because the plastic will melt before the dried laminate budges.
Step 1: empty of laminate
Step 2: run water through the machine
Step 3: empty machine of water
Step 4: remove filters, rinse filters, replace filters
step 5: optional, repeat step 2-3
VERY IMPORTANT: the applicator rod must be cleaned between each roll of material, if you allow the laminate to dry or cake onto this rod you ruin it and it is very expensive to replace.
The laminate for this machine is water solvable when still liquid but is extremely stubborn if you let it dry all the way, so it if gets on anything you do not want it on, you have to act fast with water. If it ends up in parts of the machine, roller bars, machine body ect and dries, it can be cleaned off with a lot of elbow grease and lacquer thinner (this works on metal, do not try on plastic because the plastic will melt before the dried laminate budges.