New GBC Catena 65 27" Roll Laminator - 1715845

Catena 65 Basic Operations. Located at the rear of the machine, you have the fan switch, the power switch and a 15 amp circuit breaker. When you turn on the Catena 65, it will automatically default to 32 degrees at speed 5. When you hit the Hot Button, it will automatically default to 230 degrees Fahrenheit. To increase the temperature, hit the Up Arrow Key. To decrease the temperature, hit the Down Arrow Key. To increase the speed, hit the Up Arrow Key and to decrease, hit the Down Arrow Key. When you hit the Measure Button, this will indicate how hot the rollers are. The Reverse Button is to reverse the rollers. The Run Button is to make the rollers go forward and the Stop Button is to stop the rollers.

This setting here marked 3/16 is for foam board. If you are using High-Pressure Laminate, you want to go all the way down to the 6:00 position, this is for thermal encapsulation. When you are done, you want to raise the handle back up to the 12:00 position to gap your rollers. If you do not gap your rollers, it will be a flat spot in the heat roller.

Catena 65 Loading the film. Poly in means that the adhesive is wrapped on the inside of the roll of film. You can tell by looking at the film, it has a dull side to it; that's the adhesive side, which is on the end. If I turn the film around, this is your shiny side. This is the side that's going to be laminated. So, there's a difference. You want to make sure to put your roll on your machine, the dull side is facing you and the shiny side is against the roller.
As you see on your film shaft, you have little indentations where you can line up your film when you put it on the film shaft itself. You slide this all the way to the end because we are going to load a 25 inch film on this machine. Tighten the thumbscrew, it will go right into the indentation and it will prevent the core adapter from sliding from left to right.

Now simply take your roll of film and your film shaft, slide your film shaft onto the roll of film. Make sure that the end of the film reaches the end of the core adaptor and do the same on the other side of the film shaft, sliding this core adapter on. Make sure they're tight and go ahead and finish up by tightening down the thumbscrew.

Okay, before you want to load your film on your machine, you want to take and remove your safety shield and also remove this feed table tray. To remove this feed table tray, there is a latch located on the left-hand side underneath here. You have to pull the lever towards the right of the machine, lift it up and slide the table out. Notice, this is a spring-loaded latch on the bottom.

Now that you have your film on your film shafts, you can go ahead and place it into the machine. You'll see this brass bushing on the end here. This bushing goes into the side train on the right. The left side of the machine, there is a socket that the film shaft locks into. Alright, now do the same form your top roll of film. Make sure you're brass bushing goes into the hole and slide and the hex goes into the socket and locks into place.
Okay, now that we have our film on the machine, we are going to go ahead and load it up on the front of the rollers here. We want to make sure that the dull side is facing you and the shiny side is against the rollers. Also, it's important that you make sure that you go underneath this chrome idler bar. Do the same for the bottom, take your roll of film, go underneath the idler bar, pull your film up like so; drape it over the top roll of film that you have. Give yourself a little bit of slack so you can move your idler bar into the adjacent panel. This provides tension on your roll of film.

Next, we'll go ahead and insert our feed tray and we'll go ahead and put our safety shield on. Make sure that the interlock switches on each of the corners are made with the safety shield. If it's not made and these interlock switches are not down, you will have no motor, the machine will not run.
Next, we'll take our laminating card and push it up against the rollers. Go ahead and hit the run button and the threading power will automatically feed into the rollers.

Catena 65 Basic Operations. Located at the rear of the machine, you have the fan switch, the power switch and a 15 amp circuit breaker. When you turn on the Catena 65, it will automatically default to 32 degrees at speed 5. When you hit the Hot Button, it will automatically default to 230 degrees Fahrenheit. To increase the temperature, hit the Up Arrow Key. To decrease the temperature, hit the Down Arrow Key. To increase the speed, hit the Up Arrow Key and to decrease, hit the Down Arrow Key. When you hit the Measure Button, this will indicate how hot the rollers are. The Reverse Button is to reverse the rollers. The Run Button is to make the rollers go forward and the Stop Button is to stop the rollers.

This setting here marked 3/16 is for foam board. If you are using High-Pressure Laminate, you want to go all the way down to the 6:00 position, this is for thermal encapsulation. When you are done, you want to raise the handle back up to the 12:00 position to gap your rollers. If you do not gap your rollers, it will be a flat spot in the heat roller.