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For those who are new to this, we'll first go over the basic steps. We also highly encourage everyone to view our written knowledge base article.
here's the supplies you'll need: your laminating foil, some scissors, a project printed with a laser printer, a carrier, and finally a pouch laminator.
First, open your carrier and place your project inside. Now take your foil and cut it appropriately to cover the correct portion of your project.
Take that piece and rest it in its position.
If you have other colors and places to fill, continue to do so.
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This is How to Foil Laminate!
For those who are new to this, we'll first go over the basic steps. We also highly encourage everyone to view our written knowledge base article.
here's the supplies you'll need: your laminating foil, some scissors, a project printed with a laser printer, a carrier, and finally a pouch laminator.
First, open your carrier and place your project inside. Now take your foil and cut it appropriately to cover the correct portion of your project.
Take that piece and rest it in its position.
If you have other colors and places to fill, continue to do so.
it's important to cover the printed portions of your project that you do not want to foil. If you don't then some of the print will transfer onto your carrier and make a mess on other later projects.
Now insert the carrier into the laminator. it's best to either hold or get something to keep the project flat so that the foil does not fall from within the carrier.
When it's done, remove the carrier from the back, open it up and proceed to peal off the foil and uncover your project.
Now chances are you'll see spots in your foiled project, which means we have to go over steps for quality control.
I wish there was an easy one-and-done way to get the best quality'but there are so many factors in play that it's going to take some trial and error on your part.
So first, when printing you have to print on a laser printer, no other printers will work. The foil adheres best with solid black projects'if you have colors, convert them to black or don't laminate them. This also means no gradients or opaqueness. And it's best to use vector based images'texts are vector based, and programs like Adobe Illustrator create vector based art.
The smoother the paper, the better your results. And as long as you can print it in your printer you will be able to foil it.
For choosing a laminator, it should have temperature controls for 10 mil, but preferable one that you can set the actual temperature manually to 300 degrees fahrenheit or higher. Slow down your laminator, too. And make sure the throat of your laminator is large enough to fit your projects!
When you choose not to foil part of your project, cover it with paper to avoid ink transferring onto your carrier and ruining future projects. And we've found that for some reason, some foils just adhere better than others.
Not every printer toner provides the best results. Some toners adhere better than others, and printers with a high dots per inch(DPI) will provide smoother edges and nicer results.
For serious professional foiling, check out foil fusers and foil stamping machines'these are expensive, commercial usage machines. Follow this information and you should be able to achieve some great looking foil laminated projects!
The Cracked Ice Transparent Holographic Laminating / Toner Fusing Foil is transparent, you can see through it. Please give us a call, if you would like us to send you a sample.
Thank you for your question. The Laminating / Toner Fusing Foil is designed to adhere to toner from a laser printer. If you have a transfer sheet that has been printed on with a toner based laser printer you should be able to adhere the foil to that toner. You can find some additional information provided by the manufacturer here
Thank you for your question. With Lamination Foil it is only the foiling material that adheres to the toner. The clear plastic backing peels away as the foil is applied.
Thank you for your question. Lamination Foil is specifically designed to adhere to toner from a laser printer. The film the "foil" is attached to is thin and would most likely tear if used as a film for a button.
Thank you for your question. Unfortunately Lamination Foil will not work with ink Jet prints or as a straight thermal transfer. The foil only adheres to the toner from a laser printer.
Thank you for your question. The way this foil works is it reacts to the toner from a laser printer once heated. This causes the foil to bond and once processed it only sticks to the area with toner. It is not recommended that you use spray ahesive and a laminator to adhear the foil.
Thank you for your question. Lamenting foil is designed to work with a toner based print. The foil adheres to the toner on the page and does not stick to unprinted areas of the page. Unfortunately the foil doesn't adhere to anything other than toner from a laser printer.
Thank you for your question. Laminating Foil itself is not tacky so you would be able to re-position it as much as need before processing. When run through a appropriate pouch laminator the Laminating Foil binds to the printed areas ( only works with laser / tone based printers) .
Thank you for your question. You are able to use the lamination foil with a pouch laminator that gets hot enough to work with 10 mill pouches. You would be only foiling on one side of the sheet. You would put the stock that has been printed on by a tone based printer into a carrier with the foil on top of the print. Passing it through the laminator causes the foil to adhere to the printed areas.
Thank you for your question. Lamination foil is designed to works with prints from a toner based printer. When passed through a laminator the foil sticks to the toner but not the bare paper. As far as using it for a window coating you would have to use some type of adhesive to glue it to the window but results will vary.
Thank you for your question. Laminating foil is designed to work documents that were printed with a toner based printer. When passed through a laminator the foil sticks to the printed areas of the page. To use laminating foil you need to have a laminator that runs at a high enough temperature to use 10 mil pouches.
