Liner Free Cold Laminates
An exciting new product we are working on is our pressure sensitive or cold Liner Free Laminates. Most conventional cold over-laminating films have a crack and peel liner which you need to remove to expose the adhesive. Removing this can be a little tricky and require a learning curve. You need to insure they are afixed to the take-up mechanism securely and you need to take them off in a continuous motion so you do not get lines in your finish. This is the toughest part of learning to use a cold laminator and the leading reason people spend more money to buy a hot laminator to use heat adhesive films.
We have been working with polypropolene films top-coated with a non-stick silicon coating which eliminates the need for the crack and peel liner. These can be used on any cold laminator, even those without a take-up mechanism such as the Drytac Jetmounters and inexpensive laminators.
What we have found is that while you can get some silvering (which you can also get with conventional laminates), the results are more than acceptable for short-term graphics which need protection. And you have to give the adhesive some time to flow which eliminates and ridges in the adhesive. But you won’t get a line in your in your print and your success rate will increase tremendously. And as with all cold adhesives, they will stiock to more types of papers than heat adhesives.
we are at the beginning of this product category and if you want to try a sample, all it will cost you is to call us up with your feedback.
While we can not replicate all of the embossed textures and hard coat surfaces of traditional films yet, the represent a good choice for many applications and with their speed and success rate, can help to improve the profitability of laminating jobs.