Foliant Laminator

[mohannad64]

Hello;

I am a service engineer for printing and finishing equipment, our company is located at Amman, Jordan.

we are thinking of distributing Foliant laminators in Jordan, but we have none of them here.

what are your opinions of it, are they reliable, how good is their output, and most importantly how effective (at high speed) is their heating systems (IR spiral based)?


thank you in advance, and sorry for the long post;

[JoshB]

We use Foliant and GBC. The Foliant seems to offer a good value, but is much more hands on. It's simpler, and probably easier to fix, but seems to have more trouble as well. It doesn't feed as cleanly and doesn't stack as neatly, so expect the operator to spend more time with the machine and realize that the operator has to devote his full attention to the process.

Don't ever sell or carry the slitter accessory. If you get a slitter packaged with the perf wheel, throw it away before your customer sees it.

[mohannad64]

what about the temperature, is it stable at all speeds of production?

[JoshB]

I'm not entirely sure. We use it with fairly thick stock that has some challenging characteristics, so we end up running hot and slow all the time.

I do know that it becomes more challenging to operate at higher speed. When you crank it up, previously minor feeding or bursting issues can suddenly become very difficult to deal with.