JdBattDesignRCI
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Laminator: Royal Sovereign RSL-2702, about 3 years old
Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
I'm laminating cardstock pages of an emergency checklist binder with a kind of thick 5mil laminate. Normally I run everything fine at 248 degrees (F) and on speed 5. Well, none of the 40 or so sheets I ran bonded properly. Either the laminate sealed around the edges with an air pouch or it bonded imperfectly, with bands of cloudy-ness showing it didn't contact the paper. Some cases i've been able to peel the edges open and it didn't stick to the paper at all nso I can try again. The temperature is set too high for this to happen. This happens no matter which orientation I feed the paper through. A coworker said try raising the temperature as high as it will go (300) and the lowest speed (1). Even then, we have to make more than one pass. Also noticing the machine doesn't maintain a constant temp, it says "Ready" when either the top or the bottom roller is 45-50 degrees under what i set it at! This thing is too new to be wearing out. I don't want to be known as the guy who broke a $3,000 laminator.
The pressure as it rolls seems uneven, but the lever is locked in place at "lamination"
No difference in pressure that I can see from the middle to the outside of the rollers.
see attached photo for example.
Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
I'm laminating cardstock pages of an emergency checklist binder with a kind of thick 5mil laminate. Normally I run everything fine at 248 degrees (F) and on speed 5. Well, none of the 40 or so sheets I ran bonded properly. Either the laminate sealed around the edges with an air pouch or it bonded imperfectly, with bands of cloudy-ness showing it didn't contact the paper. Some cases i've been able to peel the edges open and it didn't stick to the paper at all nso I can try again. The temperature is set too high for this to happen. This happens no matter which orientation I feed the paper through. A coworker said try raising the temperature as high as it will go (300) and the lowest speed (1). Even then, we have to make more than one pass. Also noticing the machine doesn't maintain a constant temp, it says "Ready" when either the top or the bottom roller is 45-50 degrees under what i set it at! This thing is too new to be wearing out. I don't want to be known as the guy who broke a $3,000 laminator.
The pressure as it rolls seems uneven, but the lever is locked in place at "lamination"
No difference in pressure that I can see from the middle to the outside of the rollers.
see attached photo for example.
