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Laminates
Lamination : joining together of thin layers or laminates
Lamination of polythene, cellulose acetate, polyester etc., to form clear
materials for packaging, particularly for the food industry
The ad:
Improvements in printability
Gas and moisture barrier qualities
Impact and burst strength and many others
This form of lamination is a reel to reel operation carried out at high speed on
very large machines and does not normally come into the print finishing field
The lamination of printed paper to film can be either a reel or sheet fed process
and may be applied to a wide variety of display material, boxes, and cartons,
record sleeves, book jackets etc.
Another area is document protection, eg. Map lamination, dry mounting for
photographic and art work
Films used for lamination:
Cellulose acetate, oriented polypropylene (OPP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and
Wet process:
The film be coated with liquid adhesive of either the aqueous or solvent type
Solvent type is preferred as this enables the machine length to be shorter
The disadvantage of solvent type adhesive:
inflammable solvents
toxicity
possible difficulty in evaporation of the solvent
Solvents used are:
The film is reeled off and passed through the roller adhesive applicator
To obtain optimum conditions the solvent adhesives may be circulated through the
tacky film
or re-reeled for
subsequent processing
The width of the film will always be narrower than the print the trim is necessary
Dry lamination:
The film has been pre-coated and dried before being used
Two types are available:
one has a non-sticky film that is reactivated by heat
other has a tacky layer protected by a removable release sheet
The heated process uses film and tissue pre-coated, one side with heat sensitive
adhesives
The layers are brought together in a press having a heated platen or roller
system
The adhesive is reactivated and becomes tacky
Laminating to one or both sides of the sheet
The pressure or self adhesive films have a release paper to protect the adhesive
coating and this has to be peeled off before use
These materials are used for the protection of charts, display materials, book
covers etc., on a miscellaneous basis, eg. Laminating of book jackets that are
afterwards used for library rebind cases
Care should be taken to bring the two surfaces together so that air is excluded
otherwise bubbles and creases appear in the surface
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