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Film Pre-Cautions
Below are several precautions which must be followed when handling film:
1. Adhesive side of the film must be oriented away (on the outside) from the laminating roll.
Otherwise it will immediately bond to the roll, creating a major clean-up project.
2. Films have a shiny side and a dull side. The dull side is the one with the adhesive. The dull side
should ALWAYS face outward from the laminating roll.
3. Always mount the film so that the adhesive side faces outward from the laminating roll. This
will prevent hours of roll cleaning.
4. If the two films are not aligned, feed problems, wrinkles and other assorted troubles will
occur.
5. Carefully align the two films being fed into the nip. If not, you will obtain poor results.
Economizing with film
There are many ways to economize with the film. Following are four of the most common.
(1) Minimize the gap between items being laminated (not always possible). You may even overlap the
beginning and end o following items if there is an area on the items which will be removed after
lamination. -
(2) Use a film which is the same width as the items being laminated (this does require accurate item
feeding).
(3) At the beginning of a run, lay the first item over the load plate so that as the plate s fed into the
machine the item laying on top of it is coated. This can leave a faint mark in the item which may fade
with time.
