How to Load Film On Your School Laminator
Laminating documents with a school laminator is pretty easy. However,
loading film onto your school laminator is not quite as simple. In
fact, the number one reason for service calls on school laminators is
that the film was loaded incorrectly. With this in mind, it is
important to be very careful when loading film onto your laminator so
that you don?? load it backwards or incorrectly.
If you do end up loading your laminator incorrectly, adhesive may end
up being deposited onto the rollers. It is very important that you do
not allow this to happen. Otherwise, you will need to scrub the
adhesive off the rollers before you can laminate any other documents.
Adhesive may be deposited on the rollers if
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You try to laminate with only one roll loaded on your machine
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You try to use two different widths of laminating film at the same time
- Either roll of laminating film is loaded upside down (with the
adhesive towards the roller). The shiny side of clear film should be in
contact with the heat rollers and the dull side with the adhesive
should face out.
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One or both rolls of film are allowed to completely run off the cores of the laminator.
Being careful to not allow one of these things to happen, here are some
simple steps for loading film onto your school laminator. Please keep
in mind that you should always replace both rolls of film at the same
time.
- Turn the main power switch on. If the laminator is already hot,
turn the main power switch to off and allow it to cool down before
turning the machine back on.
- Remove the feed table from the laminator so you can see both rolls of laminate that are mounted on the laminator.
- Cut the remaining top and bottom film webs between the supply
rolls and the heated rollers. Be very careful not to cut the heat
rollers in the process since this could ruin them.
- Raise the safety shield to its full upright position and pull the top piece of film down.
- Remove the existing film from the laminator. One of the easiest
ways to accomplish this is to use the reverse function of the laminator
to slowly back the laminate out of the machine. Be careful during this
step to make sure that no adhesive comes in contact with the heated
rollers on the laminator. You may need to reinstall the feed table to
complete this task. Just remember to remove it again after the film has
been removed.
- Remove the bottom roll of laminating film by sliding the right
to release it from the hex shaped brake hub. Loosen the locking screw
on the left retaining collar of the film supply shaft and slide the
collar off. Pull the shaft partially out of the film tube and then push
it back in to knock out the left core. Pull out the shaft all the way
out of the tube and remove the remaining core adapter.
- Slide one core adapter into the right side of the new roll of
film ensuring that the film will unroll properly (from the bottom).
Slide the film shaft into the core adapter and tube from the right
side. Place the other core adapter on the shaft protruding from the
left side then replace the retaining collar. Tighten the locking screw.
- Lower the bottom idle bar.
- Unroll 2ft of film and push the idler bar back into place and
drape film over the bottom roll of film. Place the bottom roll of film
back into the round hole of the right side frame and the left side into
the hex shaped brake hub.
- Remove the top film supply roll from the laminator and repeat
steps 6 and 7 from above. Ensure that when you install the film onto
the roller that the film will unroll from the bottom after the film
supply is loaded back on the laminator.
- Unroll 2ft of film and drape the film over the top idler bar and completely over both heat rollers
- Slide the feed tray under the bottom film web that is draped
over the bottom roll of film. Reinstall the feed table so that the
bottom film is resting on the tray.
- Slide the threading card between the feed tray and the
laminating film that is laying on the tray. Gently push the threading
card into the nip area of the heat rollers. The card should now be
guiding both rolls of film into the heat rollers
- Lower the safety shield and press the RUN button on the
laminator. Watch the leading edge of the threading card to ensure that
it enters the nip area of the heat rollers and is being pulled into the
laminator. Push STOP once the threading card has exited the rear of the
laminator.