Laminating images

[Frank Petronio]

What would be appropriate for making placemats? I think that is the answer for my work, I could sell sets of placemats through Umbra or at Ikea...

[coops]

What would be appropriate for making placemats? I think that is the answer for my work, I could sell sets of placemats through Umbra or at Ikea...

Good idea, give it a try.

[Stephengeorgee]

Best place for laminating http://nevex.co.uk/laminating.html

[erie patsellis]

Lyson is good and so is MacDonald (the brand I use), but they are expensive compared to laminating. There is a product called Frog Juice that you roll on that's very good too.

There's a name from the past....in a past life I worked as a designer/hand letterer/pinstriper in a sign shop. Pre solvent printers, we often used Krylon on vinyl to paint fades, etc. Butch "Superfrog" Anton formulated a clear that would protect yhe paint from fading and give a consistent gloss.

[Drew Wiley]

You'd be better off selling them at a street fair. With Ikea you'd be lucky to get two cents royalty apiece, and you'd have to make thousands of them. People pick
up laminated 40x60 framed prints in that kind of place for two hundred bucks apiece. A place mat would have to sell for two bucks, probably far below your overhead.
They egage some incredible mass-production equip. Non-acrylic print varnishes are downright hazardous, basically specialized lacquers. Nothing you want to mess with in volume. Otherwise, you've got to choose between cold laminating and hot laminating, with the latter being potentially more damaging to the print itself.