Cranniga1
New Member
We have a DryTac JM63 laminator which was purchased prior to me working here. I have recently been having a lot of problems laminating roll to roll, we get waves in the media and the only way to stop them is to raise the roller and reset the tension. The problem with this outside of being very inefficient is that if the media shifts at all when you raise or lower the roller it leaves bubbles. I had DryTac send a tech out to calibrate the machine and give me a run through on their procedure for lamination. He said that the way we do it is correct and the problem is that the rollers are crowned and meant for mounting rigid substrates versus laminating thinner medias (this was after he destroyed a long print showing me "how to correctly laminate"). His solutions were a) buy a new laminator with 2 flat rollers or b) pay for them to replace our rollers with flat ones. I am wondering if anyone laminates with crowned rollers successfully, and if it is worth it to replace the rollers or buy a new machine with flat rollers?