Over-Lamination; Single-Sided Lamination - SEAL 65 EL Handbuch

WARNING:
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CLEAR OF THE NIP. THE OPTICAL SAFETY DEVICE IS
NOT FUNCTIONING WHEN USING THE FOOTSWITCH IN SLOW MODE.
11. With your left hand - peel back the release liner (6) from the image or board as it is slowly fed into
the nip without stopping.
Note: Removing the release liner completely exposes the adhesive to dirt and dust that will get
trapped under the image.
12. With your right hand, keep the image smooth against the upper roller (5) preventing the image
from wrinkling.
For the best result; do not stop while feeding an image.

5.4.4 Over-lamination

After an image is mounted to a panel, a protective laminate can be applied. This process is the same
as pre-coating a board (section 5.4.2). The over-laminate can be a pressure sensitive lamination film.
Note: SEAL® advises to create decals (see section 5.4.6) since this better protects the print that
needs to be mounted.

5.4.5 Single-sided lamination

Images can be laminated single-sided with or without using carrier boards (sled).
This laminate should be a pressure sensitive film with or without release liner.
Disadvantage of the single sided lamination process is the adhesive residue that can stay behind on
the rollers where there is no image.
To avoid this, release liner or carrier boards can be used. Or the image must be wider than the
laminate and pieces of scrap material must be in the nip to start or end the process.
Using release liner (recommended)
•
Use a roll of release liner in the lower section.
•
Web the upper and lower section of the machine as described above (section 5.3.2).
When the images are cut from the result, the release liner will separate from the image automatically.
Using carrier boards (sled)
•
Web the upper section of the machine as described above (section 5.3.2).
•
Put the image on a carrier board with the image side up and follow the steps for pre-coating a
board (section 5.4.2).
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